On Wednesday 14th August at
HC-One’s Primrose House care home, in Crewe, residents welcomed a visit from Zoolab to celebrate World Lizard Day.
Zoolab regularly visit HC-One homes throughout the UK and provide an interactive learning experience for care home residents who can get up close and personal with the creatures.
The experience is a firm favourite with residents at Primrose House, who enjoy engaging with different animals, learning about them, and showing how brave they are too. Everyone was very pleased to pose for photos!
In this particular visit to the residential dementia and nursing dementia care home, there were lots of creepy crawlies, snakes and giant snails for the residents to get to hold and touch. Many of them, including Brenda Steel, were very brave and held the snake and giant snail!
The session sparked lots of reminiscing. Brenda was asking the Zoolab representatives where the snail was from and whether she could touch it. She was also telling him how she loves animals and used to keep dogs.
Brenda Steel said,
“Having the love of a dog is such a wonderful thing!”
Primrose House Colleagues, including Maryam, Wellbeing Coordinator, Kourosh, Care Assistant and Kristina, Housekeeper, jumped in on the action too as it was such a unique and engaging experience.
Dawn Sadler, Home Manager at HC-One’s Primrose House care home, said:
“It is amazing what animals can do for residents living with dementia, their faces lit up.
I was overwhelmed how much interaction the residents showed.
Absolutely wonderful having Zoolab in today".
Residents are very much looking forward to the next animal encounter! They will be marking Black Cat Appreciation Day on Saturday 17th August and are having a painting competition in the morning. During this event, they usually pair a colleague up with a resident and then have a prize for the winner. The home will also be celebrating National Dog Day too later in the month.