At Larchmere we recognize the importance of maintaining an active and interesting social life and understand that it is often not possible for our residents to access events outside the home. Our aim is therefore to bring the outside in to our residents. We employ three Activity staff who complement the nursing team and offer a range of individual and group activities to all our residents on a daily basis.

We organize several trips out each year by minibus to a variety of destinations chosen by our residents. The seaside at Eastbourne and Hastings are often popular destinations and recently Chatham Historic Dockyard and The kingfisher cruise down the river Medway have also proved very popular.

We offer in house entertainment by inviting a variety of singers and performers into the home each month and all the staff, visitors and residents get together periodically to enjoy themed party events in the home.

Our Activities staff also run a pot gardening club in the courtyard garden during the spring and summer months. A crossword club also runs every Thursday.

We appreciate that not all events suit every individual and we also offer quieter individual daily activities and small group activities including cards, board games quizzes etc.

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