Horse Fair Care Home

What we're doing to keep residents & visitors safe
We are confident that our care homes are now some of the very safest places to live and work.

All of our staff have been trained in additional and heightened cleansing protocols and hygiene regimes, and these are being supported by a leading sanitisation system as part of our comprehensive infection controls. Testing regimes will continue for staff, residents and visitors.

We have re-aligned the resident in-house services to meet social distance guidance from the Government, for areas such as lounges and dining rooms, and for visiting entertainers and hair dressers; we are working hard to restore these services within the ‘new normal’ circumstances as soon as we can, when lockdown rules allow.

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)

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Mobile Phone Network Coverage (mobile “signal”)

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Telephone for external calling

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Our Butterfly Café is just one of the spots where residents enjoy the companionship of others over a cup of tea. There’s a good variety of lounges to choose from too, some where clubs and societies meet and some where you can just be quiet and enjoy a daily newspaper or magazine.

Bedrooms are of generous proportions, come with en-suite, walk-in showers and flat-screen TVs. Our housekeepers keep the rooms in beautiful order and will always make sure that any personal ornaments and keepsakes are carefully dusted!

We make a point of celebrating the lives of our residents who all have a stake in the direction of life within our care home. Families and friends are encouraged to give us their views too and, more formally, can join one of our committees. It is by concentrating on the residents in a holistic way that we get the best out of them and offer the best elderly care. We are minds as well as bodies, and to that end we have an energetic recreation and leisure team who devise a wide programme of activities and social engagements for residents and families.

Family are welcome at any time and this means we often enjoy the company of guests for dinner, so that our dining room feels more like a large family room, where there is lively chatter about the day’s events over a glass of wine or beer. Wine or a drink of choice are available with lunch and the evening meal and all our produce is fresh and, where possible, locally sourced from across Staffordshire and follows the seasons.

Our in-house chef and kitchen team make every effort to cater to the needs of the residents, who are consulted on the weekly menu planning. Special dietary needs, including vegetarian options are never a problem.

The chef tells us that the plates always come back empty and with three meals a day, as well as tasty snacks in between, our residents will certainly never go hungry. Birthdays and other celebrations are always taken seriously and are a good excuse for doing that extra special something to accompany the good wishes.

Our full-time Activity Coordinators ensure that residents have the opportunity to enjoy their days to the full. We are lucky in that we have a grand piano, and there is nothing we like better than having a good old singsong.

Other things we might do include:

• Flower arranging

• Knitting (Come on gents, you can have a go too!)

• Shopping trips into Rugeley

• Spending time in the sensory garden

• Going down the pub

• Walking in the park

• Going out to Staffordshire heritage sites

Residents are free to come and go as they please; Rugeley town centre is only a few minutes’ walk away. But we are good at organising trips out in the minibus that take residents on excursions further afield.

In the warmer months residents make great use of the outside patio area, which is completely enclosed for privacy, a perfect place for outdoor exercise or just a nice cup of tea. This area includes a brand new sensory garden, designed to provide a variety of sensory stimuli with its aromatic plants.

Popular among our activities are the reminiscence sessions in which residents look back over the years and discuss major historical events both local and international. They very much enjoy remembering where they were at key times and we often find friendships forming and strengthening during these sessions. This is very popular with our residents who live with dementia.

We know how important it is for our residents to keep in touch with family and friends, so we provide free Wi-Fi throughout the home. Computers are available for Skype, email or just browsing. Don’t forget to check out our Facebook pages!

Pets to be discussed with the home manager.

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