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Work starts on new care village for Sandford
Building is now underway for a brand new care village with the facilities to offer care and support services to older people across North Somerset. The Trust has made a substantial investment to redevelop the old railway station site in the village of Sandford, near Weston-super-Mare.
The station has more recently been used as the trading centre for local business, Sandford Stone, but is now derelict and in need of renovation and redevelopment. The brown field site includes the original station buildings, which will be fully restored to form the heart of a new social community, housing a licensed restaurant, activity centre, gym and health spa for the 200 or so residents who will eventually live there. More than 100 retirement flats and cottages with 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms are being built, and reservations for lease purchase accommodation will be taken in the latter part of 2008.
St Monica Trust Director, Gerald Lee, believes the new development has a significant role to play. He says, "The aim of the development is to bring together a combination of services for older people, which we want to make available to elderly people living in their own homes in the local area as well as to those living on site. We hope the development will directly address the needs of North Somerset's growing elderly population, a trend clearly highlighted in the most recent census." Analysis of the population age in 2001 confirmed that 25% of residents of North Somerset are over the age of sixty.
Adjacent to the care village, the construction of a separate single-storey, 71-bed self-contained care home has begun. This is being built as five smaller, interconnected 'houses', an innovative design which will significantly enhance the quality of life for residents and is specifically suited to the particular needs of people with dementia. Once complete the development is expected to create 100 new jobs in Sandford, fulfilling a range of administration, care and support functions.
To register for more information and be one of the first to visit the site in the autumn, telephone 0117 949 4004.
Just made – twenty new beds in Westbury-on-Trym’s award winning care facility
With the completion of a new £2 million annexe at John Wills House, the care home at the heart of the award winning Westbury Field’s retirement village, the St Monica Trust is opening a further 20 new en-suite rooms, available for elderly residents in need of excellent
nursing care. The care home facilities have been awarded a CSCI ‘Excellent’ rating in the most recent inspection by the Commission for Social Care.
John Wills House provides care and companionship for elderly residents in a uniquely comfortable environment, supported by 24-hour care in rooms specially designed to help maintain maximum independence. Inside, accommodation is provided in spacious en-suite rooms, each one containing an innovative overhead hoist system. Outside, John Wills House is part of Westbury Fields, a 12 acre site, with a village green cricket pitch, and home to a vibrant community of more than 200 older people.
Residents have access to on-site physiotherapy support, chiropody and reflexology and hairdressing is also available. As well as enjoying freshly prepared meals in their own dining rooms, residents can eat with family and friends in The Cricketers, Westbury Field’s’ own licensed restaurant.
Privacy, dignity and freedom of choice are promoted though the support of a dedicated and highly professional care team. Activity and involvement, is enabled through a wide range of interest groups, societies, events and entertainment. In an environment of peace and tranquillity, all residents have the opportunity to explore spiritual well-being and questions of faith with a dedicated pastoral care team whose role is to enhance spiritual fulfilment, in all its many forms.
The new annexe at John Wills House opens in June 2008 when the Trust will have a total of 156 purpose-built, en-suite care home rooms available for elderly, people. These include 76 in the Garden House, which was awarded ‘Best New Development (Elderly Care) in the National Care Awards when it first opened at Cote Lane.
“I’m just so pleased to be here. I do love people and I’ve made so many new friends and all my old ones still come to visit. I really enjoy the services on a Friday and the poetry reading. I’m now just finding the time to write a memory book. I’m lucky in that I have so many lovely ones, right from my early childhood. Even so, the last four years in John Wills House has been one of the happiest periods of my life.”
Eveline Farmer, resident, John Wills House.
CARE HOME ENQUIRIES Tel: 0117 949 4735
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