Issue 2: Spring/Summer 2017
Care
RMBI care homes celebrate!
Pie week
As a nation, it is estimated that we spend over £1 billion on pies each year!
Most of us can’t resist a homemade pie and to mark British Pie Week in March, residents at RMBI care homes spent time making their favourite recipes.
Residents at the dementia support house at Cornwallis Court in Suffolk enjoyed making apple and raspberry pies and chocolate buns which they later shared with staff.
In Scarbrough Court, Northumberland, Activities Coordinator Dawn Peters organised a baking session where some of the residents reminisced about baking for Sunday tea with their families, using their favourite recipes including cheese and onion pies and apple pies.
Food plays an important part in our care homes and our residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed getting involved in British Pie Week. It provided a great opportunity to bring our residents together through their mutual love of food-related activities.
Your Care Rating
RMBI care homes have received top marks in a nationwide survey of care home residents. The Your Care Rating Survey, the UK’s largest survey for care home residents and their families, found that in RMBI Homes:
97 per cent said they consider their care home a safe and secure place to live.
96 per cent said that staff treat them with kindness, respect and dignity.
95 per cent feel that they can take part in activities and hobbies at the care home if they want to.
All RMBI care homes organise regular activities and work closely with local community groups to support residents’ health and wellbeing.
