Douglas Court Care Home Boosts Residents Wellbeing with All-New, ‘Singing and Dancing’ Partnership.

Douglas Court Care Home is partnering with award-winning Oomph! Wellness to engage residents and team in a holistic world of enriched wellbeing.

Douglas Court in Derby provides high-quality, person-centred care, where each resident is treated with dignity and respect whilst offering a fun and engaging social program so that residents can continue to enjoy past interests and try new activities. Families and friends can join in with the daily activities offering reassurance that residents’ happiness and well-being is at the heart of everything they do.

Oomph! On Demand, which is Oomph!’s new digital platform, provides a multitude of ‘evergreen’ engaging exercise and activity content, 365 days a year. Providing a diverse range of topics, meeting a range of varied interests and abilities and allows the team to deliver safe, meaningful and most importantly, fun, wellbeing sessions that residents love.

“We are delighted to be partnering with Adept Care homes to provide a huge variety of resources for residents to choose from. We are excited to support meaningful engagement within the homes and offer support to the teams with tailored wellbeing opportunities at the click of a button” said a representative of Oomph! Wellness.

Oomph! On-Demand will enable residents, their relatives and our team to tune into live and recorded exercise sessions, including ballet, salsa and Bollywood dancing. They will also be able to enjoy a wide variety of activity resources, from virtual tours of Scotland to language lessons, history talks to music concerts from their armchairs. The site boasts interactive quizzes, activity ideas, an interactive activity calendar and much more.

Joe Lock, Communities Director at Adept Care, commented, “We are proud that every decision in our home is resident-led, Oomph! On-Demand is helping our residents and our team to be able to select activities, tailoring our lifestyle program to the resident’s individual and desired wellbeing goal or personal interests. Our Activities team are thrilled that the platform is helping them be more innovative and effective in their roles.”