Residents at
HC-One’s Silverwood care home, in Sunnyside, Rotherham, have been making full use out of the home’s hair and beauty salon and care workers have been enhancing their skills to make everyone feel relaxed and pampered.
On Tuesday 13
th August, hairdresser Pam Hawksworth, and in-house Wellbeing Coordinator, Wendy Benson, spent the day in the salon at the residential and residential dementia care home. They had many visitors including Joyce Earmshaw, 99, and Marjorie Brailsford, 94, who were made to feel super special this week opting for their hair styled and nails painted.
Pam has worked at Silverwood care home on a Tuesday and Wednesday for the last three years. She says that she thoroughly enjoys the time spent there and it is one of her favourites homes to work at due to the facilities, staff and most of all the residents.
Wendy has been learning to do nails herself and residents love to try out her colours and designs. Pam visits the home weekly, and always makes residents feel and look amazing.
When in the salon, the record player came out this week and played songs from years gone by. Residents enjoyed picking the songs they wanted and reminiscing about their favourite singers and songs throughout the decades. There was even a joint singalong too!
Joyce really appreciates the salon experience, having hair and nail care. She also loves the refreshments provided from the in-house bistro, reminiscing and picking records for the record player.
Majorie makes a lot of eye contact as she prefers to communicate this way, and shows lots of big smiles, she particularly enjoys the hand massages.
Joyce Earmshaw, who lives at Silverwood care home, said:
“I really enjoyed that, that was a bit of fun, wasn't it?”
Wendy Benson, Wellbeing Coordinator at Silverwood care home, commented:
“The ladies really look forward to these salon sessions every week.
This week, we thought we would also introduce something a bit different this week, with the music player and them choosing the old LPs to play.
It really gave the salon that extra buzz!”