Marham House Lifestyle Team work extremely hard to create lifestyle programmes that meet the needs of all residents in the home, throughout the COVID19 crisis, the team have ensured that the home has daily activities and events which the residents can enjoy, either 1-1 or in a group.

On Sunday 7th February our wonderful resident Elsie, spent her time preparing, making, and cooking her famous cheese straws. This was recorded on posted on the homes TikTok page.

Within 4 days this video has been watched 1.2 million times, received 226.3k likes and commented on over 4000 times. Comments were made from users all over the world.

Some comments included,

“Love seeing the happy side and people who genuinely encourage independence rather than seeing the bad side.”

“They look amazing, what’s the recipe.”

“I want this to happen at every facility, so cute! Everyone should be able to cook and bake, with staff present to be able to assist.

Due to the incredible response, Elsie will be bringing out monthly videos to teach the younger generations different traditional recipes. The support has been amazing, and we cannot thank everyone enough for their kind words.

Elsie commented “Thank you everybody for getting me to 1 million on TikTok, I will be making more baking videos each month, see you all soon, love Elsie.”

Our resident’s health and happiness come above all else, which is why we place a great importance on our lifestyle programme.

Although we cannot offer full tours of our facilities, we can offer socially distanced visits. For more information on this please call 01284 335964 or email info@halcyoncarehomes.co.uk