Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Home Care service hosted its second annual ‘virtual afternoon tea party’ for service users in October. Service users aged 100 or over were invited to participate along with their friends or family members.

Gordon Bryan, Head of Care Services said: “Following the success of last year’s virtual event we decided to host the tea parties in service users’ homes again to allow as many of those eligible to participate as possible.

“A home-made afternoon tea including scones, cakes and sandwiches was provided by a local café, and pre-recorded entertainment including speeches from the Lord Provost and Glasgow City HSCP’s Chief Officer Susanne Miller were played on an iPad.

“It’s important for us to recognise our centenarian service users and their contribution to the city, so we were delighted to be able to host this event again.”

Service user Helen who is aged 104 said: “I was delighted to be invited to participate in this year’s afternoon tea and had a lovely day with my family who joined me for the occasion.” 

Helen’s daughter also Helen said: “On behalf of the family I would like to say a big thank you to the service for organising this for my mum. My sister, brother and our partners also attended the event and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. The food was incredible, it was such a lovely afternoon.”