Millbrook House

Our home has 50 single rooms, 42 of which are en-suite, providing care for both long term and respite clients who require nursing dementia care. Our home is in the enviable position of having extensive living spaces which provides the more mobile resident plenty of scope for exploring and being able to find quiet areas for alone time.

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At Millbrook, we aim to provide care for each individual based on a thorough holistic assessment process. We strive to focus on the positives and encourage independence where possible.

ACCOMMODATION
Millbrook House is a purpose built residential home, which features all the living areas on the ground floor and bedroom areas on three floors that are serviced by a lift to provide an excellent level of nursing home care. The living spaces are both spacious and plentiful so as to provide residents ample room to explore, wander freely around, as well as being able to find that quiet area for some down time.

All rooms are tastefully decorated and we encourage our service users to personalise their rooms with their own items of furniture, pictures and ornaments. Each bedroom wing has its own specially adapted bathroom and a total of four different type of bathrooms are available within the home, which enable us to cater to all levels of support.

We have a sheltered, secure garden courtyard, with benches and additional seating areas maintained by our gardeners.

SERVICES
Activities are plentiful, interesting, varied and very person centred. They include reminiscence, crafts, quizzes, games, exercise of all kinds, relaxation sessions, singing, gardening and much more.

We also have a housekeeping team who support the care staff in providing an essential service to all our residents.

We encourage outside professionals to visit and support the home, these include a hairdresser, chiropodist, dentist, optician, clergy as well as the residents own GP’s. The home also has close links with the community mental health nurses and psychiatrists.

PHILOSOPHY OF CARE
Millbrook House is an example of a more progressive, open minded approach to nursing dementia care. Our residents are respected as individuals and we do our best to cater for their every need. We recognise that the necessity of moving into a nursing home and requiring help with personal tasks can feel like a loss of independence. We therefore do our best to ensure that this transition takes place with as little stress as possible.

We value our fully trained and friendly staff as our greatest asset, which is why we have excellent staff retention levels ensuring continuity of care for our residents, which enable special relationships to be formed between carers and residents.

STAFF
Our quality trained staff will be on hand to help to support our residents in a manner that is both professional and unobtrusive, promoting independence as well as a sense of well-being and security. Our philosophy states that attention to detail makes the difference and our staff are trained, as well as prepared, to go the extra mile. All residents are treated as individuals and our focus will be on what they can do for themselves, and not what they are no longer capable of.