👑 Yesterday was incredible fun! Thank you to all of our homes for making such fabulous creations for the ‘Design a Pudding Fit For A Queen’ competition. You all made so much effort and seeing the smiles on the residents' faces made our day.
Congratulations to Milford...
Today we host our inter-homes 'Design a pudding fit for a Queen' competition. We cannot wait to see the puddings our homes have come up with! 🥧
Spencer Grove: Care Home Buddleia House: Care Home Milford House: Care Home The Meadows: Care Home Hazelgrove: Care Home...
💚 We’re putting our Alfreton-based care home The Meadows: in the spotlight today for #MotivationMonday.
🌹 The Meadows is split into two areas - Rose Court for nursing care and Lavender Court for residential care.
Some of its features include:
...
⭐️ VOTING CLOSES TODAY ⭐️
Click on the link below to show your gratitude 👇
https://bit.ly/3kP0LvA
There's still time to vote! ⭐️
Has a member of our Milford Care team gone out of their way for you? Have you someone treat a resident with care and compassion? Do you want to give recognition to someone who has helped you out of a situation?
🤗 #FridayFeelings from the daughter of our lovely resident who lives long term at our The Meadows: Care Home in Alfreton.
👏 Rated 'Good' by the CQC, The Meadows provides a range of care including residential care, dementia care and respite breaks with all...
We'd like to show our appreciation for all of our fantastic nurses, who are truly dedicated each and every one of our residents.
Your hard work and commitment is astounding and we are so grateful to have you in our Milford Care family.
...
🥧 Design a pudding fit for a Queen 🥧
We've been busy at the care homes coming up with some delicious ideas for our Design a pudding fit for a Queen competition.
To read more about it, take a look at this post...
MONTESSORI 💙
Buddleia House: Care Home resident, Marilyn, loves helping out with the admin tasks. Yesterday, she spent her time preparing some application forms and we couldn't have been more grateful.
At our Milford Care homes, we practice Montessori care and it's at...
WE NEED YOUR VOTE! ⭐️
At Milford Care, our staff are our superstars. Each year we hold the Milford Care Awards to celebrate their successes and they need your vote.
Whether it's a member of staff that's gone above and beyond your expectations...
Alan and Logie from our Buddleia House: Care Home doing their musical tribute. The home loved it!🎸
#BuddleiaBeatles #musicaltherapy #lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome
🌻 We’re putting our Duffield-based care home, Milford House: Care Home, in the spotlight today. This stunning home has won multiple awards and is known for its community spirit. Some of its key features include:
🏡 Grade ll listed Georgian manor house
✔️ CQC ‘Good’ rating
We've opened our doors back up to visits with our relatives and friends and it's been very emotional.
We're so thankful we can invite people again and want to thank you all for your patience and understanding ❤️
We want your help!
In true Milford Care style, we’re using the Queen’s Jubilee to celebrate as much as possible! As well as parties and prosecco throughout the coming months, we’ve been inspired by Fortnum and Mason to give all six of our Milford Care homes...
EASTER CELEBRATIONS 🐣
All of our care homes had a brilliant time for Easter, experimenting with arts and eating plenty of chocolate.
Here's some snaps from our Belper care home, Spencer Grove: 💙
😍 For our #WednesdayWords, we're bringing it back to this amazing review that brought smiles to the Milford House team's faces.
❤️ This review comes from Mark, whose family were blown away by the care given to his grandma at Milford House: Care Home...
HAPPY EASTER WEEK 🐤
Hazelgrove: Care Home are getting ready for the weekend by taking part in some baking, making delicious rice crispy cakes. Do you like their bunny ears?
HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY BUDDLEIA HOUSE 🎉
Our Hucknall home, Buddleia House, turns 3 today and we've been partying like it's the Millennium all over again!
The home has accomplished so much in its 3 years. Thank you to all our wonderful staff, residents...
A very Happy 100th Birthday to our Helen! We hope you enjoyed your day with your Buddleia House: Care Home family 🥳
🌞 If you need something to brighten up your Thursday, take a look at this musical video from the residents at The Meadows: Care Home, #Alfreton.
#montessoriliving #alfretoncarehome #LifeAtMilfordCare #LifeInACareHome
The Meadows: Care Home, Alfreton, enjoyed some lovely treats for Mother's Day ❤️
#Alfretoncarehome #LifeAtMilfordCare #LifeInACareHome #MothersDay
It's the National Day of Reflection so we’re taking the time to honour those we have lost during the last two years.
We’d also like to show our appreciation for our fantastic teams across all of our care homes. Your hardwork and dedication to Milford Care has...
😊 A relaxed morning at our Ashbourne Lodge Care Home with weekly Book Club and Balloon Tennis.
Both of these activities go down really well with our residents. #CareHomeActivities #lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome
💧 Nutrition and Hydration Week
Today, we're chatting all things water! There's a long list of benefits that water gives us including:
👉 Boosting skin health
👉 Increase energy levels
👉 Deliver oxygen throughout the body
👉 Maintain blood...
🥕 Nutrition and Hydration Week.
People experience problems eating and drinking for a number of reasons, for example if they’ve had a stroke or suffer from dementia, and as result, lose weight or pick at their food.
We realised this to be an issue...
It’s Nutrition and Hydration week! 🥑🍒🍏🍦💧
The health of our residents and the food they eat is so important to us that we want to show how diverse and delicious it can be!
Today we’re starting with our menu. This menu is from...
We woke up this morning to this amazing review for our Ashbourne Lodge Care Home from one of our Facebook followers 💚
She commented, “I am constantly amazed and impressed by all the activities that you do, and how much effort you make in creating a stimulating...
🥰 RESPITE CARE
Respite care is often associated with taking a break from caring for a loved one, but it’s so much more than that.
Respite care is:
🤝 Receiving extra support
🌲 A change of scenery
...
Happy Birthday to both Roy and Nelly at The Meadows: Care Home. Hope your day is as wonderful as you are! 🥳
#lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome #alfretoncarehome #alfreton
🥰 We’re so happy to say we received top marks for our Spencer Grove: Care Home in #Belper from a family who were ecstatic with the care given to their Mum.
💙 The review from independent review site, carehome.co.uk, said:
"Our...
🐦 Spring is here! The Meadows: Care Home residents spent their weekend building some bird feeders for their garden ready for the wildlife to enjoy.
What did you get up to this weekend?
✅ To find out more about #residentialcare,
🏐 "Wow! What a treat we had today getting to hold an original Shrovetide ball.
The residents of Ashbourne Lodge enjoyed holding the ball and learning how much effort goes into making it. The ball is made from handstitched leather, filled with cork and hours of detailed...
🏠 Have a pint in the pub, feed the chickens or visit the sweet shop! Buddleia House: Care Home is our newest Milford Care home, specialising in dementia care which helps to give our residents their independence back.
With everything designed meticulously within the home, Buddleia House...
🔊 This is Ken. Ken is a part of the Milford House: Care Home family based in Belper. However, Ken is so much more than a resident. Ken used to run his very own art class in Breadsall and even had exhibitions of his work.
🖌 Ken...
🏆 This is Joan. Joan is a lovely resident at The Meadows: Care Home based in Alfreton. But Joan is so much more than a resident. Joan is a talented pianist, published author, ex-prison worker and an MBE holder!
📚 Joan’s book “Jesus Walks Them Landings” is...
🗣 A dose of #ThursdayThoughts from the daughter of two residents that were a part of the Spencer Grove: Care Home family in Belper. This review is from the independent review site carehome.co.uk.
The full review said: "My mum and dad both lived at...
✨ At Milford Care we practice the Montessori Way Of Life, which encourages our residents to get involved with tasks to boost self esteem and confidence.
This morning at our Hucknall-based Hazelgrove: Care Home, one of our lovely residents jumped at the chance to help our...
Hands up if you've heard these said about care homes -
▪️"Residents are lonely" 🙋♂️
▪️"The food is bland" 🙋♀️
▪️"Care homes smell" 🙋♂️
👇If you've heard these (amongst other popular myths) then take a look at our blog post below...
🥳 We are so excited to share that our @The Meadows: Care Home have scooped the Derbyshire Dignity Award for another year running thanks to the team's hard work and love for the residents. We couldn't #LifeInACareHome
Read their story...
📰 BREAKING NEWS! 📰
🍫 Belper-home, Milford House: Care Home, had brilliant fun broadcasting their own news report. Pat & Dot did a fabulous job of reporting the scandal of Sheila - the Registered Home Manager stealing chocolate from the tuck shop!
🧐 Don't...
🥪 Who's for lunch?
Residents of Hazelgrove: Care Home in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire have enjoyed putting together their own sandwiches today, choosing from a choice of fillings including tuna mayo, egg, cheese and many more.
Alongside our Montessori-trained staff, the residents excelled at this task,...
🤩 Our Dementia Care Champions have been featured in a new post from Derbyshire Live. Grab a brew and have a read:
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/special-features/milford-care-invests-trailblazing-dementia-6578318
💬 What is Montessori?
We talk a lot about Montessori at Milford Care - it’s so important to us that our residents feel empowered and we channel this through every one of our six homes. This is how we approach Montessori...
👉 Montessori...
⭐️ For Motivation Monday, we’re putting one of our ‘Outstanding’ CQC care homes in the spotlight today. Ashbourne Lodge Care Home is a “boutique-hotel” style home which has won multiple awards, including Derbyshire Quality End of Life Award and national recognition in the Great British Care Awards.
Good morning all,
Thank you for being so patient with our homes during this difficult time. As you will know, COVID-19 is still afoot and as such, we have to protect our residents and staff as much as possible. Based on this, we have had some official...
🌟 We’re putting our Alfreton-based care home The Meadows: Care Home in the spotlight today for #WednesdayWisdom.
🌹 The Meadows is split into two areas - Rose Court for nursing care and Lavender Court for residential care.
Some of its features...
❤ We’re massively passionate about food – many call us foodie’s!
🍲 We love to serve wholesome, tummy-warming meals that truly hit the spot. Whether you’re a fan of pie or love a Friday night curry, we’re happy to accommodate it.
👉...
💙 For #WednesdayMotivation we’re focussing on the dedication of the Buddleia House: Care Home care assistants who have helped to turn this family’s life around.
👫 At Milford Care, we truly believe family and a sense of belonging are the most important aspects. As...
🧁 Ann, at our Milford House: Care Home, is a big fan of cooking and was taught to bake by her mother. Ann and our care assistants spent an afternoon baking chocolate butterfly cakes and reminisced over memories in the kitchen with her family.
What a...
💚 For our #ThursdayThrowback, we’re heading back to the words of this lovely lady who was so pleased with her grandfather’s care at Ashbourne Lodge Care Home that she wrote us some warming words on independent review site, carehome.co.uk.
⏰ We take enormous...
🧡 Hazelgrove household tasks
We’ve had a very productive start to the week, doing lots of laundry, cleaning our home and washing the dishes. These are all a part of our Montessori way of life.
We chat a lot about Montessori at Milford...
🍰 Our residents love catching up with friends over a hot drink and slice of homemade cake!
🗣️ At all six of our care homes, we like to make food and nutrition an interactive and social experience.
🍲 Mealtimes are so important for social...
💙 Spencer Grove: Care Home shared their New Year 'pearls of wisdom' with the rest of the home by writing down what's important to them.
🥰 Which one is your favourite?
💙 We couldn’t be prouder of this review for our Buddleia House: Care Home, from the lovely Laura. Her dad joined the Milford Care family and now he’s one of our biggest cheerleaders!
🥇 This feedback is just one of the many reasons that Buddleia House has...
💰 Dorothy at Milford House: Care Home in Belper, has been doing a brilliant job at counting the coins and sorting into piles.
❤ At all of our Milford Care homes, we encourage our residents to partake in activities which heighten confidence and boost self-esteem. Activities, such...
❤️ You may be wondering what Christmas looks like in a Milford care home. We've decided to give you a cheeky look behind the scenes into what goes into a Milford Care Christmas.
We hope you enjoy our video full of 2021 memories and from the...
🐕 Ashbourne Lodge Care Home had a visit from Coco the pooch over the weekend and the residents were overjoyed!
💚 We regularly practice pet therapy as it brings physical and mental health benefits as well as lots of furry cuddles. Pets have been proven to reduce...
📣 Happy 100th Birthday to our wonderful Joyce at The Meadows: Care Home. She got a telegram from the Queen and received many cards, flowers, lovely presents and a beautiful handmade cake 🎂
Enjoy your day Joyce!
Ladies and gentleman, can we introduce to you... the Spencer Grove: Care Home Pantomime 2021! Enjoy 👏
#carehome #CareHomeActivities #lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome #carehomepanto
📣 Brilliant start to the day for our #MondayMotivation!
🏆 Buddleia House: Care Home is now the #1 care home in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire according to independent review site, carehome.co.uk.
🥇 Rated an exceptional, 10/10, Buddleia House is...
🥰 Sometimes it’s the little things.
🎨 With Christmas crafting in full swing, our lovely Holga from Buddleia House: Care Home donated some creative stationery for one of our new residents, whose passion is to make things.
✏️ Using this donated set, Buddleia House...
We are featured on Derbyshire Live for our awards in care. Grab a cuppa and have a read!
🏡 We’re putting our Belper-based care home, Spencer Grove: Care Home in the spotlight today. This ‘Outstanding-rated’ home has won multiple awards and offers both residential and nursing care. Some of its key features include:
🛁 Modern en-suite rooms
✅ CQC ‘Outstanding’ rating
📚...
💚 What else do you think Ashbourne Lodge's Elf will do?
#carehomesuk #ashbournecarehome #elfontheshelf #LifeAtMilfordCare #LifeInACareHome
🧡 #FeelGoodFriday from a daughter about her dad’s care at Hazelgrove: Care Home on trusted review site carehome.co.uk.
💬 Her full review said: “After my dad had been in and out of the hospital he soon settled in at Hazelgrove. He seems happy. He...
📣 Keep up with the latest news!
📰 Milford Care are committed to sharing the latest updates with loved one's friends and family and we want you to be a part of the action! We regularly update our page with fun stories, resident triumphs and top tips...
Thank you for following our accounts, hitting the like button, engaging with our residents and sharing the moments with your friends.
With your support, we can carry on sharing precious moments of our residents and telling them of your kind words. We're celebrating 500 likes on...
🎉 Winners 2021 at Great British Care Awards!
🔥 Well done to every member of staff who won last night at #GBCA and also those who were finalists - you've all done incredibly well and we're proud of all your hard work and achievements....
Here's a sneak peek into some of the Milford Care team at the #gbcareawards 🤩
🎉 Good luck to our finalists who are heading to the #gbcareawards tonight. All our fingers and toes are crossed for you!
#GreatBritishCareAwards #GBCA #carehome #LifeAtMilfordCare #LifeInACareHome
☀️ We’re getting into the #FeelGoodFriday spirit thanks to this glowing review from the daughter of a resident at Buddleia House: Care Home in #Hucknall.
💙 This moving review from carehome.co.uk shows that we’re more than just care homes. We're so...
🌟 We’re putting The Meadows: Care Home in the spotlight today for #MotivationMonday.
🌹 The Meadows is split into two areas - Rose Court for nursing care and Lavender Court for residential care.
Some of its features include:
🛌 Nursing...
📐 This is Don. Don is part of the Milford House: Care Home family based in beautiful Belper. Don used to be a Painter and Decorator in his working career and today, he showed Milford House that he still has that magic touch!
🥰 Don was...
