​​Care Services

At Shannon Lodge we cater for day care, short/long term residential care, and convalescent care - each receiving the friendly yet efficient attention to make their stay with us as relaxed and homely as possible.
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Every resident, whether long term, short term, convalescent or day care, has their own individual care programme prepared based on their pre-admission assessment.  We strive to meet their personal requirements as well as their medical needs and encourage the resident's active participation in the preparation of their programme where possible. Whilst their medical assessment is of primary importance, the little things that can make life easier during the transition to a nursing home is also vital to their comfort - from their favourite food, to enjoying reading in a quiet room.

Services Available at Shannon Lodge Nursing Home

 ​A majority of our entertainment from live music performances to Irish dancing, bingo to quizzes, takes place in our bright and spacious Lounges. The Lounges are a focal point for our residents, where they relax and have a chat in a relaxed atmosphere. We provide a separate room for residents who like a smoke!

At Shannon Lodge Nursing Home, we are happy to provide any service or item that will improve our residents' quality of life. These are a sample of the activities we do:

• Afternoon Tea Parties
• Arts & Crafts
• Hand Therapy
• Head Massage
• Hoop Target Game
• Jigsaws
• Gentle Keep Fit Exercise
• Knitting Circle
• Baking
• Ball in a Bucket
• Board Games
• Bingo
• Crosswords (Group and individual)
• Darts
• Topical open Discussions
• Flower Arranging
• Foot Spa Therapy
• Gardening
• General knowledge topic
• Traditional Music Session
• Sage Visits
• Generations Together
• Imagination Gym Therapy

• ​Languages (Irish)
• Lawn Croquet
• Library
• Light Exercise
• Manicures
• Movie Time
• Music Therapy
• Musical Afternoons
• Newspaper Review Club
• Outings to places of interest
• BBQ Annually
• Social Chats
• Social Afternoons
• Sudoku
• Walks
• Wordsearch
• Birthday celebrations
• Painting
• Computers / IPad sessions
• Coffee Mornings
• Raffles
• Listen to Local Radio
• Sporting Events

• Pamper morning
• Pet Therapy
• Poetry
• Quiz
• Reading
• Relaxation Therapy
• Reminiscence Therapy
• Sonas Program
• Sensory Therapy
• Spiritual Reflections
• Sing A Long session
• Weekly Mass
• Prayer Group
• Bowling
• Brain Training Games and Activities
• Cards games
• Chair Basketball
• Local Music & Dancing
• Celebration Parties
• Pharmacist Health Talks
• Ice-Cream Van Afternoons

The Sonas Programme

The Sonas programme is an evidence-based, therapeutic activity for people who have dementia.
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The essential features of Sonas Group and Individual Sessions are:

• Stimulation of all five senses
• Focus on communication
• Use of structure and repetition
• Focus on retained abilities rather than deficits or disabilities
• Creation of a warm, failure-free environment

More information on The Sonas Programme is available here.

Imagination Gym

 ImaginationGYM® is based around a series of audio adventures that are designed to stimulate a listener’s imagination, designed to work with adults and are completely non-invasive. Ultimately  ImaginationGYM® is about imagination, creativity and fun. It is just about going into your imagination and creating stories in your mind and then bringing some of these ideas back to the real world through some creative en-devour such as storytelling, art, writing, photography, video, drama, etc.