Acorn Lodge Care Home

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)

The Care Organisation has not indicated availability

Mobile Phone Network Coverage (mobile “signal”)

The Care Organisation has not indicated availability

Telephone for external calling

The Care Organisation has not indicated availability

Lounges are inviting spaces to linger in, as are the enclosed courtyard gardens, perfect spots for sitting out on warm sunny days – parasols at the ready, naturally! There are quiet corners too for one-to-one chats.

We are well respected for our dementia care and have a dedicated Memory Care Suite, equipped with its own sweet shop and the tills and scales of yesteryear. Those were the days when sweets came from a jar and you gobbled them from a paper bag.

A choice of room sizes is available, some with balconies, all with en-suite showers, flat screen TVs and DVD players, and there are some suites available too for couples or friends who like to share. We encourage residents to make their rooms their own by furnishing them with personal memorabilia, favourite pictures or even a beloved bedspread or piece of furniture.

Our in-house team of Activity Coordinators (the Ladies in Pink) arrange an imaginative programme of events and activities to suit all tastes; there is always something going on every day. Take a look at the list below of some of the things we do and you will get the picture:

• Visit by ZooLab (handling snakes and spiders!)
• Latin American dancing
• Wildlife films
• Singalongs
• Visits to Warwickshire garden centres
• Listening to the Orchestra of the Swan
• Trips out with neighbouring care homes in Nuneaton
• Going on a barge trip
• Our green fingered Gardening club

Schools like to drop in and see us — the little ones always raise a smile, as does the local community theatre group. We’re always open to new suggestions for activities, so the list is always expanding. Residents just have to tell us what they like and we’ll see if we can do it. Keep an eye on our Facebook pages and you’ll see what’s going on.

There is free Wi-Fi throughout the home and we use of the internet and i-pads for our memory activities. YouTube is a good source for past events and trips down Memory Lane which relate to and stimulate the residents. The Daily Sparkle is a popular reminiscence magazine which gets the tongues going too.

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