Residential care
Help with the ordinary things that have become hard: washing, dressing, meals, moving around the house, and being known by the people on shift. The care plan says what is needed. It is not a slogan on a wall.
The care
Personal care, in the place a person lives.
The care we arrange is a place to live, with personal help, for adults over 65. That includes dementia and physical disability. Nursing care, with nurses employed through the night, is not this service. Name the town when you write, anywhere in the United Kingdom.
Dementia
The home can care for older people living with dementia. That does not mean every person with dementia can be supported here. Distress, walking out, and the layout of the house all have to be talked through before a move.
Physical disability
People living with physical frailty or a disability can be considered. We look at the room, the equipment, and whether the staff on a shift can give the care safely. If we cannot, we say so.
Health care around the home
People keep their GP, or register with a local practice. Community nurses, and other NHS teams, come in when a person’s health needs them. That is the same arrangement as for someone living in their own home. It is not the same as having nurses employed by the home, on duty through the night.
If a person needs nursing care as the service itself, say so at the start. We will tell you if we cannot help, rather than leave a family hoping.
Who the home is not registered for
The home must not provide a specialist service to people whose main need for care is a learning disability or autism. It is also limited to 33 people. Adults over 65 are the people the registration describes.
Consent, and when a person cannot decide
Care is explained to the person it is for. Where a person lacks capacity for a particular decision, the home has to act within the Mental Capacity Act: the decision must be in that person’s best interests, and the least restrictive option that will do. A relative’s wish, on its own, is not the decision.
Nothing on this page is a clinical opinion about a named person. An assessment is a conversation and a look at the records, not a paragraph on a website.