Cedars Care Group specialise in providing quality care homes for older
people. Our guiding principle has always been the provision of a
complete holistic service, focusing on high quality personal and nursing
care in the context of respect for the needs and wishes of individual
service users. Apart from providing the highest quality of care, each
home aims at making life in a care home as much as possible like being
at home, and also providing a family atmosphere.
We feel the key to providing an exceptional care environment is to treat
our residents as individuals, who have life experiences, interests, personal
needs and unique characters. They have the desire and need to maintain full and
active lives, where they will be physically, visually and mentally stimulated
in an environment which promotes diverse social contact and interaction amongst
close friends and family. In an effort to achieve this we encourage families to
prepare Life Story Books for each of our residents, which helps our staff and
friends they meet in the home to get to know them, and recognise their
individuality.
In an effort to ensure this approach to care is successful, we feel it
is essential to invest in our environment to make the home stimulating,
diverse, stress free and enjoyable for service users and staff alike and also
to invest in our staff. We feel that if our staff are appropriately trained, and
given the needed time and resources to carry out their duties and work in a
pleasant and stimulating environment, they will be able to perform at their
best and bring out the best in our residents. Our staff have extensive and
specialist training in nursing and dementia care and we work closely with the
Alzheimer’s Society recommendations in respect of appropriate environment and
training. To ensure that without question activities and sensory stimulation
are given the priority and importance they should have in the everyday lives of
our residents, we employ dedicated Activity Co-ordinators or Occupational
Therapists to oversee this key area.