Winner of Community Involvement Award at Caring UK Awards - Mundy House Care Home

Recipient: Mundy House Care Home

Date: Friday 08 Dec 2023

The awards are organised by Script Events in conjunction with leading care industry magazine Caring UK, with support from headline sponsor Virgin Money.

In each category up to seven finalists have been selected and they will now go through to the next stage of the judging process.

The winners were revealed at a glittering awards ceremony at The Athena in Leicester on Thursday, December 7 when the industry gathered to salute all that is great about the care sector

Community Involvement nomination:

The Archie Project is an exciting intergenerational dementia awareness project that links local primary schools, care homes, and community members to ultimately dispel the fear and stigma often associated with dementia and create more dementia friendly communities. In October 2022 the Fairhouse School and Mundy House formed a partnership to become involved in the project.

Both the Manager and Deputy Manager from Mundy House visit the school on a regular basis to address the school children in their assemblies to answer the children’s questions about Dementia to provide an understanding and bridge any misconceptions. The children also visit Mundy House to mingle with the residents, each child sitting with a resident and sharing their excitement and speaking without any barriers. Following the first visit, some of the residents stated this was one of the best days in their life and meeting with children brought back fond memories.

Earlier this year, Mundy House organised an ‘Archie March’ to the care home, in which the children marched from the school in scarecrow outfits, representing the Archie Project logo. The home staff and school teachers also got involved, marching around two miles from the school to Mundy House and they had a fantastic day with the residents. It was beautiful to witness the children remembering the residents who they had met before, and the residents remembering the children who sat with them at their last visit. This has proved that these meetings have improved residents memory and cognition, and effectiveness of intergenerational communication as well.

Both the school and the Home have agreed to continue the journey in the coming years to support the residents' mental and emotional wellbeing and to connect the children with the elderly generation, so they will be able to understand, value and respect older generations.