Honey Lane Care Home

Infection control and the safety of both residents and staff often requires quarantine measures and the isolation of care home residents. To test, monitor and allow residents to communicate with relatives, the prevalence of room-level connectivity within the home is becoming increasingly relevant.

Wireless Internet access (WiFi)

Yes, our care home has WiFi in all our resident’s rooms.

Mobile Phone Network Coverage (mobile “signal”)

Yes, our care home has mobile phone signal in all our resident’s rooms.

Telephone for external calling

Yes, our care home provides a telephone in all our resident’s rooms.

In addition to offering the highest level of quality care, Honey Lane Care Home has exceptional facilities that make life enjoyable and engaging for all residents, whatever their hobbies and personal preferences.

Providing the perfect place to relax, our comfortable bedrooms are as individual as our residents and can be personalised with small items of furniture, photographs and belongings; ensuring they feel familiar and homely.

At the heart of the wonderful care we provide at Honey Lane in Waltham Abbey is our compassionate team formed of carers, managers and team leaders and members of our wider support team such as catering, housekeeping, lifestyles and front of house.

Lead by our amazing home manager Karen, all of our team members are carefully chosen for their values and unwavering dedication to caring for our residents with tenderness, kindness and respect. We nurture and invest in them – ensuring they feel valued, happy and love being part of our extended family.

Our focus on creating a wonderful home in which to live and work means we are able to retain the very best team members, valuing the contribution they make, each and every day.

This in turn helps us to provide consistency for residents and exceptional care, through people who value the same things we do, receive ongoing training, support and recognition and are skilled and confident – understanding each individual resident, who they are and what they need to lead happy and fulfilling lives.

This compassionate approach is also extended to people looking for care for a loved one, as well as our residents’ families, helping & supporting them through what can be a very emotional time.

At Honey Lane, we are passionate about providing a varied, nutritious and wonderfully appetising array of food for our residents which supports positive health and wellbeing.

Our dedicated and experienced team works closely with residents to capture people’s favourite foods which are then freshly prepared and mirror the seasons to ensure we are able to feature fresh fruit and vegetables when they are at their best.

Breakfast consists of a choice of cereals, fruit, porridge, toast and preserves as well as a full English breakfast with grilled bacon, sausages, eggs cooked to residents’ liking, baked beans and tomatoes.

Lunch sees delights such as the homemade soup of the day, a selection of sandwiches and a hot option such as tarragon chicken, Cumberland beef pie or honey glazed roast gammon served with fresh vegetables, salads and potatoes. For those with a sweet tooth we also always have a dessert option such as profiteroles, apple crumble, cheese and biscuits, and fruit salad.

For dinner, we have appetising choices such as chicken and leek pie, stew and dumplings, roast lamb with all the trimmings and Mediterranean quiche followed by sweets such as fruit sponge and custard, cheesecake and panna cotta with fruit compote.

During all meals, we ensure we meet the needs of our residents who have special dietary requirements or cultural preferences – ensuring everyone has appetising, balanced meals which they are able to enjoy and savour.

And, throughout the day we have a selection of hot and cold drinks and biscuits as well as snacks and freshly home-baked cakes to enjoy for afternoon tea whilst beer and wine is on offer during lunch and dinner.

PROVIDING MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES FOR OUR ELDERLY RESIDENTS

Our residents’ ongoing health and wellbeing is extremely important to us and we recognise that keeping active, both mentally and physically, whilst maintaining a sense of purpose and meaning are key to individuals’ happiness, contentment and joy.

In partnership with our residents and those closest to them, our dedicated lifestyle team develops a varied programme of meaningful activities, events and celebrations which are personalised to individuals’ likes, dislikes, abilities and care needs as well as aspirations and dreams for the future.

Our whole team supports our residents to rekindle interests and hobbies, whilst also gently encouraging them to try new things they might enjoy, either as part of a group of friends, on a 1-2-1 basis and in their own room, if they prefer.

MAINTAINING AN ACTIVE BODY AND MIND

Regular opportunities to exercise bring fun and laughter, whilst giving everyone the opportunity to stay as active as they’re personally able to. For some, that may be through seated exercises from the comfort of their own chair and movement to music classes whilst, for others, it’s boxercise with our trainer, Curtis.

To keep our minds active, we host regular reminiscence sessions and enjoy many puzzles and games. Arts and crafts are also a popular past-time, painting, making cards, décolletage – anything to get our creative juices flowing.

Also, key to supporting health and wellbeing are our horticultural-themed activities in our care home, where the green-fingered amongst us tend to our beautiful gardens in the great outdoors, enjoy pottering in the greenhouse, or doing a spot of flower arranging.

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