Visitors to Heathlands Village are simply blown away by our amazing facilities and the fantastic range of activities for residents.
Our beautiful sensory gardens, our highly specialised care households, our innovative ‘Motiview’ cycles and Nordoff Robbins Music therapy…
….these are just some of the features which make Heathlands Village such a happy, home.
Beach House is a beautiful ‘home within a home’. This delightful dementia-friendly care setting has accommodation for up to 20 people.
Its layout is calm and flowing to enable you to make your way about independently which is especially important if you are feeling upset or agitated.
Beach House adjoins our magnificent Seaside Sensory Garden which you can access safely without help. The design of this living area follows the seaside theme of the garden.
Beach House several features to help you remain as independent as possible:
Beach House has a special Reval Transcare assisted bathroom with hydro-massage and a range of relaxing and calming lighting options. The specialist bath can be tilted so you can totally relax, while fully supported, immersed up to your shoulders in lovely warm water.
The corridors along Beach House have been installed with special ceiling panel lights which look like a natural blue sky.
Lighting levels in Beach House can be adjusted at different times of the day or night to help adjust your sleep pattern.
Your bedroom in Beach House will be installed with sensors to trigger lights to come on and guide you safely to and from the bathroom in the night-time.
Our furniture has ‘cut-away’ sections so you will be able to find your clothes and other belongings easily.
And there’s lots of room if you want to bring a favourite piece of furniture with you.
Bedrooms have brightly painted, large numbered front doors with memory boxes to the side, containing photos and mementoes. This is designed to help you find your room without help.
The village’s catering team prepares all meals for Beach House. There are also has two kitchens where you can make a drink or snack for yourself and your visitors.
Beach House’s care team use Carevision to keep a record of your care throughout the day. Staff use handheld devices while ‘on the go’, to make notes of the care you receive. They can record, for example, when you had your medication or how much you have had to drink.
This system reduces the time our team must spend updating care records on computers. This increases the time available for the one-to-one care and attention you need.
Our Seaside Sensory Garden adjoins ‘Beach House’ where we provide residential dementia care. This fabulous garden is full of features which will take you back to childhood holidays at the seaside.
An amazing ’soundscape’ plays the sounds of children laughing, waves breaking and seagulls crying. Speakers are cleverly disguised as large garden rocks!
You can sit on the pier; enjoy the breeze and the sights and sounds around you. You’ll love the beach huts, sailing boats and ice cream kiosk and lots of others lovely touches.
Willow Tree is a small household which is home to up to 11 residents, offering residential dementia care. Care provided here is generally very well suited if you are in a more advanced stage of dementia.
Willow Tree is found on the ground floor of Heathlands Village’s main building. The general design of the household is bright and uplifting and the main communal space has a very welcoming and homey feel. The lounge area opens onto a small courtyard with a lovely, decked area.
Willow Tree boasts many details and technological features which are designed to enhance your wellbeing and independence.
Inside Willow Tree, the corridors have bright ceiling panels which mimic a natural blue sky, and the lighting levels can be adjusted at different times of the day. This is very helpful if your sleeping pattern has become topsy-turvy.
We have a modern bathroom that boasts a Reval Transcare assisted bath. This modern bathroom offers hydro massage and a range of relaxing and calming lighting options. The baths can be tilted so that you can relax shoulder-deep in warm water yet feel fully supported.
Residents’ bedrooms are all installed with sensors. These trigger lighting to come on and guide you safely, if you get up in the night to use the loo. The furniture in our bedrooms has clever cut-away sections which mean belongings can be found easily.
There is also plenty of space for your favourite pieces of furniture, to make your surroundings more familiar.
Each bedroom has brightly painted doors with large clear numbering. Individual memory boxes are fixed next to teach door, displaying photos and personal memorabilia. All of this makes room location simple and aids with independence.
Main meals are prepared by our catering team. Willow Tree also has a lovely kitchen area where you will be able to make a drink or snack for yourself and your visitors.
Other facilities include:
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Our activity team are dedicated to keeping you stimulated and entertained with a diverse programme of activities.
Daily activities are run in our purpose built-art Activity Centre and smaller lounges around the Village. Larger events such as parties, dance-displays and concerts are held in our Function Room and Memorial Hall.
Our activity schedule caters for a variety of interests. You can pick and choose what you fancy coming along to. There are
The Activity team also offer weekly shopping trips and occasional day trips to Synagogues, museums, local parks and trips in the park on our very own Rickshaw.
Our specialist Motiview computerised bikes offer a virtual reality cycling experience. This amazing project helps you sleep better, boosts memory and mood and keeps you physically active: https://motitech.no/landing/en.html
There are thousands of routes to choose from, taking you cycling all over the world. Watch your progress on a large screen and listen to music and sounds from the places you visit.
Heathlands Village partners a national charity – Nordoff Robbins. Together we offer our residents both individual and group music therapy sessions.
Our highly experienced therapist visits our home regularly to spend time with people in our care who are the most ‘hard to reach’.
Through music, song and percussion and he draws people’s into the world around them, helping them communicate when speech may no longer usually be possible. https://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/
Heathlands Village has a number of different sized function rooms available for hire for celebrations or private meetings. These can be hired by residents and families as well as local people and organisations.