The overall aims of The Retreat Care Home are to provide a caring environment. During your stay we will encourage you as an individual to lead an active and fulfiling lifestyle, respecting both your choices and wishes at all times.
We are able to provide care for twenty elderly residents. Our care group is the elderly and frail. We are able to care for slightly confused elderly residents such as those suffering from short-term memory loss. We can also care for those with physical problems who may have difficulty mobilising. Respite Care is also provided when space is available.
Due to the layout of this Grade 2 Listed building we are unable to cater for the needs of someone who is wheelchair-bound. We are also not registered to look after someone with dementia.
We provide mental stimulation in the forms of memory-recall exercises and other reality orientation aids, i.e. music, current affairs discussions and use of historical literature and media. The Retreat also arranges lots of physical activity such as daily exercise, dancing, singing, horticulture therapy and other outdoor activities. On a very regular basis we have outings to local beauty spots and other places of client choice. A nominal charge may be made for refreshments when we are out.
The Retreat employs loving and compassionate staff who have a genuine interest in the mental and physical well being of those for whom they care; and we only employ those who are willing to undergo further training to update their skills. There may be circumstances in which care would be better provided elsewhere, such as when a person requires nursing care or when they require care that we are not registered to provide. The primary health care team will carry out the appropriate assessment of care needs.
