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Dementia Action Week Sensory Garden at St Georges

St Georges CHA Award

Dementia Action Week at St Georges

St Georges marked Dementia Action week with a different activity each day, from music to trips to the pub it was an action packed week showing you can live well with dementia.

 

Sensory Garden

 

Creating a Sensory Garden

With the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in full swing St Georges wanted to create their own sensory garden area. This started with a trip to local Cadbury Garden Centre where residents selected a variety of sensory plants. There was then a morning planting the sensory area within the home’s courtyard. Thank you so much to the family members who came along to support the planting and the garden centre visit.

Benefits of Gardening

Gardening can offer so many benefits for those living with dementia, it is a calming and engaging activity that provides a sense of purpose and achievement. Gardening can also help with memory recall, as familiar plants and scents can evoke memories.

 

Listening to the sound of the birds chirping and the beautiful sunshine made for a perfect day. The sensory area is now ready for everyone to enjoy and you can smell the aroma just by walking past.

Dementia Care

St Georges offer both residential and nursing dementia care with a specially trained team, we will adapt to your loved one, to find out more information do visit the website.

Catherine
Sales Manager

Catherine has worked in sales and marketing her whole career, after graduating with a degree in Textile Management she worked in Corporate Workwear for many years. Catherine’s first role in the care sector was working with a disability charity that ran nursing homes and enablement projects for young adults.

Catherine

While her two children were younger, she joined her husband in his estate agency, but was delighted to return to the care sector in 2020 and now cannot imagine doing anything else.

Catherine’s role with Allegra is to support residents and their families as they explore care options. Working with the teams in the individual homes she ensures that during every stage from initial enquiry through to moving in with us every question is answered, and we offer the reassurance needed for the next chapter in our resident’s life. It is important for our residents to remain part of the community in which will have lived for years, often all their lives, so the other part of this role is connecting with local community groups, charities and organisations.

Catherine has said that working for Allegra with their groundbreaking household model means we are offering a home with compassion and care whilst ensuring residents are retaining their independence and quality of life.

Out of work Catherine enjoys baking and gardening The children are older now, but still keep her busy!

Paul Thomas
Regional Manager - Western Region

Paul has joined Allegra Care with 28 years’ experience in the health and social care sector including working in senior leadership roles for the last 18 years; covering operations, business management and quality assurance. Paul has a real passion for person centred care and how that is delivered at the highest level.

Allegra Team Paul Thomas

Paul has worked across a diverse sector over his time in health and social care and brings a wealth of experience to his new role as Regional Manager. Paul believes in integrating real and meaningful values and culture into a service and in doing so, delivering the outcomes for the people we support. Paul goes by the theory of values with no meaning, have no value.

Outside of work, Paul is the father of three boys and a 2nd degree black belt who teaches Judo.