Ashgrove Care Home in Hounslow, West London was visited on Friday 1st July by Feltham and Heston’s MP Seema Malhotra, Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), as the home welcomed visitors and guests from the local community to the home to participate in this year’s Care Home Open Week celebrations from 27th June to 3rd July 2022.
The 49-bed purpose-built, nursing dementia care home, which is owned by HC-One, was delighted to open its doors to celebrate Care Home Open Week with Residents, Colleagues, friends, family, and the wider community.
Care Home Open Week is a national event hosted by Championing Social Care, designed to connect care homes with their local communities. This year, homes across the UK enjoyed being able to celebrate with communities in person again, having marked the annual event virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents and Colleagues of the HC-One owned home enjoyed meeting Seema Malhotra, MP for Feltham and Heston and chatting to her about what life is like at Ashgrove – which is an integral part of the local Hounslow community.
Ashgrove’s chosen theme for this year’s Care Home Open Week was ‘Summer Celebration’. Throughout the week, Residents, Colleagues, families and friends enjoyed a variety of fun-filled activities which were enjoyed by all.
Visitors also enjoyed learning from Colleagues in the home about what a rewarding career in care looks like and finding out about opportunities for community engagement and volunteering roles to support their local care community.
Virginia Van Wyk, Home Manager at Ashgrove Care Home, said:
“We were delighted to welcome Seema Malhotra to our home and open the doors of Ashgrove again to welcome in our local community and bring everyone together to celebrate Care Home Open Week 2022. Everyone had an amazing time.
“We are proud to support the local Hounslow area, and our Open Week celebrations provided a great opportunity to reconnect with our local community after the challenges of the pandemic, to support community engagement, and to remind our local community that our kind care teams are here if they ever need support for themselves or a loved one.”