Thanks for the Carers!-Colton Care Celebrates Carers Week
Carers across Colten Care’s 21 homes have been showered with appreciation – and sweet treats – during Carers Week.
Carers Week, which runs from June 6-12 this year, is an annual awareness campaign to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the UK’s 6.5 million carers.
At Colten Care, the week featured daily treats for colleagues and residents such as homemade cakes, ice lollies and doughnuts.
At the company’s Bourne View care home in Poole, carers were also visited by an ice cream van.
Bourne View care assistants Faith Frances, Becca Grant and Rebecca Oliver said it was “lovely” to feel so appreciated.
Faith added: “Carers want to make people feel happy and secure and that’s why we do what we do. But it’s also nice when you are told you are special and are appreciated too. I think we have all felt really spoilt this week.”
Resident Molly Tarrant said:
“I came to Bourne View after having a stroke and the carers here look after me so well and ensure I’m able to continue going out and living my life.
“They help get me get into my wheelchair, they take me out to the garden and with any other help I require – I know they are there for me anytime I need them.
“It’s been lovely to turn the tables and spoil them a little and tell them how important they are.”
At Colten’s Avon Cliff in Bournemouth, carers and residents enjoyed a tea party together.
And at Woodpeckers in Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, residents presented carers with their own homemade muffins and cupcakes and also crafted gift boxes which they filled with homemade fudge gifts.
Colten Care’s Chief Operating Officer, Elaine Farrer, said:
“We all know carers are a very special kind of human being, but never has their devotion been more evident than under Covid. Seeing our carers calm fears, lift spirits and keep families in touch, all whilst providing the very best care we have all come to expect, fills my heart with gratitude.
“Carers Week is a special time to step back and really show our thanks and appreciation for this and to tell all our carers – “We simply couldn’t do without you.”
