Oak House Residential Care Home
Barchester Homes
training and developing our staff is key.” Tel: 01780 480881 www.bluebirdcare.co.uk Barchester Homes has opened a new care home, Braeburn Lodge in Deeping St James, providing personalised nursing, residential and dementia care. It has been designed to provide a warm and comfortable home for older people and offers nursing and residential care, as well as providing personalised care for people living with dementia in Memory Lane Community, whose features include adapted crockery and tableware, a sensory garden, and memory boxes with small reminders such as photographs to help each person reminisce. Skilled Activities Co-ordinators create a lively and involving programme, from arts & craft afternoon, a fitness morning or an evening of film. The home also has a minibus to take people out for trips, to the shops or theatre. Contact: Braeburn Lodge Tel: 01778 752500 Always Take Care is a Gold Standard Care Agency based in Oakham that offers exceptional care at home. “I promised my mum and dad I wouldn’t put them into a home when they got old” – a promise made by many but not always easy to keep, according to Heather Gebbie, founder of Always Take Care who has over 50 years nursing experience. Specialising in long term continuing care at home, Always Take Care helps families to keep their promises, and takes great pride in the exceptionally high quality of nursing care her team provides. “The majority of our clients are retired professionals seeking the dignity of remaining at home despite personal limitations. We offer professional help with daily care, companionship, dementia care, palliative care, respite care and end of life care through one of
our experienced carers who live with clients in their homes and take care of all their needs.” Also available is domiciliary support for respite and post-operative clients with the fullest attention paid to matching the right carer with the right client. Tel: 01572 869138 www.alwaystakecare.co.uk Oak House Residential Care Home provides full time nursing and residential care as well as respite and post-operative care. It remains very much part of village life in Greetham and has recently celebrated 25 successful years in business. Manager, Linda Ellis and her team often welcome villagers to visit residents at Oak House to help maintain contact with the community – something which Linda feels is essential. “Oak House is situated in the heart of the village and we like to welcome local people here as friends of the home. Visitors come to chat, socialise and sometimes attend poetry readings or other events we organise and they bring with them news of village happenings to our residents, keeping them in touch with what goes on. Lots of locals also enjoy our monthly luncheon club - two courses for just £7.50 and everyone is welcome!” Tel: 01572 812647 www.oakhouse-carehome.co.uk
Next Steps Community Care Established in 2006, and continuing to grow, Next Steps Community Care are specialists in caring for clients in their own homes and are now offering their services in Stamford and surrounding areas. The company was founded by Steve and Caroline Croxton, both registered nurses with over 35 years combined experience within the NHS. Their ethos is to provide individualised care and support to enable
individuals to continue to live at home while still receiving excellent care. Their services include help with household chores such as cleaning, preparing and cooking meals, or other more personal tasks such as bathing and showering, dressing, shaving and continence care. They can also help with shopping, swimming or other activities. www.next-steps.co.uk. Stamford and its surrounding area are lucky to have so many varied facilities which have a genuine passion for changing the face of the caring profession with many companies investing in high quality recruitment and training of their staff which results in excellent care for elderly clients.
DIRECTORY: • Tixover Care Home near Oakham and Chater Lodge Care Home in Ketton are both run by Barchester Healthcare www.barchester.com Tel: 01780 444491 / 01780 721376 • Braceborough Hall Retirement Home www.braceboroughhall.co.uk Tel: 01778 560649 • Tallington Care Home - Tel: 01780 740314 • Whitefriars Care Home – Tel: 01780 765434 • Priory Court Care Home – Tel: 01780 766130 • Tixover House Care Home – Tel: 01780 444491 A list of hospices can be found online: www. helpthehospices.org.uk. Those nearest to Stamford include: • South West Lincolnshire Community Macmillan Team in Bourne – Tel: 01778 426523. • Cancer and Specialist Care in Peterborough – Tel: 01733 678572 • Sue Ryder, Thorpe Hall in Peterborough – Tel: 01733 225900 • The Tulip Suite in Spalding – Tel: 01775 652000 • Lakeland Hospice in Corby – Tel: 01536 747755 • Marie Curie in Solihull – Tel: 0121 7033600. STAMFORD LIVING FEBRUARY 2015
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