Uckfield care home residents' visit to dementia cafe

Hurstwood View care home, in Uckfield visits the local Dementia Café in Buxted with joyous results. The Buxted café is a part of the Sussex Community Cafes within the Hurstwood View care home area.

Today they had a visit from Retro Rosie. Tambourines and maracas were a huge highlight, along with the accompanying singing. These sensory activities in dementia cafes plays a wonderful part in peoples lives to help break up the day, whether still living at home with family or outings from a local care home such as Hurstwood View that has a remarkable residential dementia floor.

General Manager Esther said: “We love going to these local dementia cafes, they provide amazing sessions that can brighten any one’s day. Music in particular reduces anxiety, eases agitation and sparks old memories. Familiar songs from a person’s youth, ages 18 to 25 are very meaningful. We hope to offer this outing every Tuesday for our dementia residents. If you would like to see what we get up to in and out of Hurstwood View then please visit our Facebook site, Hurstwood View Care Home.”