Walfinch home care Windsor and Maidenhead is offering health checks to clients, free activities, and spiritual wellness support this Spring.

Leena Bector, owner of Walfinch Windsor and Maidenhead, says: “As part of our aim to make 2026 a Year To Thrive, we are offering optional health checks for clients from March.  We also offer activities that enhance wellness socially and spiritually, through community contact.  Many studies have shown how physical activity can increase healthy longevity, and scientific papers have shown repeatedly that the community aspects of religion can extend people's lives by years.”

Physical health checks

The care team will offer clients checks of their blood pressure, heart and breathing rates, oxygen levels, temperature, alertness and awareness, using the Whzan Blue Box tool.  The readings combine to create a National Early Warning Score (NEWS2), used by NHS health care practitioners, which, with clients' permission, can be sent to their GP, or other health professionals.

Leena says: “It saves time when contacting clients' doctors and means medical practitioners take contacts from carers more seriously, delivering an overall benefit to clients' health.”

Leena's service already works in close co-operation with the NHS to provide specialist complex care to clients, plus many other kinds of adult social care.

Community activities

Leena and her 27-strong care team will also be launching a Walfinch Thrive Club, offering   exercise and activities sessions in a local venue, to anyone in the community, free of charge. Attendees can also get health and lifestyle information from carers and local professionals, including how to check their osteoporosis risk using The Great British Bone Check, a free online tool from the Royal Osteoporosis Society.

Cultural and spiritual care

Leena says: “As well as caring for clients' physical and mental wellbeing through activities and gentle exercise, we take clients on outings, in some cases for religious and cultural activities. We take three clients to Sikh Gurdwaras, and two to a day centre to join in with spiritual music activities in Punjabi.”

Walfinch also celebrates a variety of festivals relevant to clients, such as Christmas, Diwali and Eid. Recently we gave Diwali gifts and cards to all our clients and carers, as well as celebrating Christmas. 

“Catering to clients' spiritual needs is one of the requirements of the care sector regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and Walfinch Windsor and Maidenhead takes that seriously.”

The multicultural care team also provides carers who can speak clients' languages, wherever possible. “People with cognitive decline often revert to their native language, even after living in the UK for years,” says Leena. “They appreciate carers who understand their cultural background.”

Improving lives

“We want care to be a way to improve people's lives rather than just maintain them,” says Leena. This is a key driver throughout the Walfinch national network of franchised local offices, which provide a wide range of care services, but all accompanied by activities, chosen by clients, to encourage healthy longevity.