{"id":234246,"date":"2023-09-13T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/?p=234246"},"modified":"2023-09-13T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:56:37","slug":"games-and-chair-fitness-at-sonya-lodge-residential-care-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/games-and-chair-fitness-at-sonya-lodge-residential-care-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Games and chair fitness at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bingo and dominoes<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Our residents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home love spending time playing games together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of our ladies and gents enjoy a <strong>quiet game with a friend<\/strong> <strong>or member of staff<\/strong>, while others enjoy a <strong>loud and<\/strong> <strong>riotous round of Picture Picture<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Roy opted for the first option last week \u2013 a peaceful (but competitive) game of <strong>dominoes<\/strong> with a member of our Activities Team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile some of our other residents had a fun game of <strong>Picture Bingo<\/strong> together which filled our Home with laughter and raucous bingo calls, while everyone enjoyed some delicious <strong>cakes and biscuits<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<h2>Fun with chair fitness<\/h2>\n<p>Our residents worked hard with their exercises last week as we enjoyed <strong>two sessions of chair fitness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We hosted an hour of seated exercises with Jane from <strong>G-Fitness<\/strong> on Monday, followed by another one hour session with <strong>Alex from the Ellenor Team<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loved these sessions and this was evident from the <strong>smiles, laughter and singing<\/strong> throughout!<\/p>\n<p><em>It is great to see so many of our residents getting involved in this group activity and having fun together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-234248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-1.jpg\" alt=\"Socialising and keeping fit at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-1-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1200px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-234249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-2.jpg\" alt=\" Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents enjoying seated exercises\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-2-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sonya-lodge-games-fitness-120923-2-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bingo and dominoes Our residents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home love spending time playing games together. Some of our ladies and gents enjoy a quiet game with a friend or member of staff, while others enjoy a loud and riotous round of Picture Picture! Roy opted for the first option last week \u2013 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":234247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[503,421],"tags":[552,672,581,683,258,196,194],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Games and chair fitness at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home - Sonya Lodge Care Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sonya-lodge.nellsar.com\/games-and-chair-fitness-at-sonya-lodge-residential-care-home\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Games and chair fitness at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home - Sonya Lodge Care Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bingo and dominoes Our residents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home love spending time playing games together. 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