Wear white for wellbeing day at Mellish House

23rd June 2021

This week the residents and care team at Mellish House Care Home in Sudbury enjoyed Wear White for Wellbeing Day, a day launched by Caring Homes in 2020 to marks the start of World Wellbeing Week with an opportunity for participants to promote an overall awareness for the wide-ranging aspects of wellbeing, including social, physical, emotional, financial, career, community and environmental wellbeing.

This year the theme was hydration, a very important element of our residents wellbeing. At Mellish House we decided to celebrate with a summery vibe, with a white coloured drinks/hydrating trolley to take round to all our residents.

This was very well received by the residents with lots of smiles, and not a lot of drinks left over. Residents have responded saying things like "oh I like that, can I have some more?"

Some of the benefits of making sure we stay properly hydrated include:

• Increases energy

• Relieves fatigue

• Improves brain function and concentration

• Helps prevent headaches

• Can help with weight loss.

• Flushes out toxins.

• Improves skin

• Maintains regularity.