Meadowside Residential Care Home is a small, comfortable, family-run residential care home for the elderly situated just outside Marlow town centre. It is housed in an elegant, turn of the century Edwardian-style property that has been converted with care and regard for the special needs of elderly people.
Our aim is to create a family atmosphere for all our residents. Accommodation is available for up to twelve residents; a small number that enables staff to give the utmost individual care and personal attention to each resident in a homely and happy atmosphere. We are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and comply with the required standards for residential care while maintaining a home-from-home environment familiar to us all.
Our aim is to create a family atmosphere for all our residents. Accommodation is available for up to twelve residents; a small number that enables staff to give the utmost individual care and personal attention to each resident in a homely and happy atmosphere. We are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and comply with the required standards for residential care while maintaining a home-from-home environment familiar to us all.
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Elizabeth Hassard is responsible for the overall management of Meadowside Care Home and its employees. Elizabeth trained as a nurse at St. Thomas' Hospital, London in the late 1980s. Over a number of years she helped her parents manage their family-run residential care home, which they operated for more than 35 years.
There are 18 members of staff at Meadowside overall - ensuring there is an unusually high number to meet all our residents' needs. The staffing structure consists of the following: Elizabeth as Manager; a Deputy Manager; a Care Supervisor; a House Keeper; a Cook; and 14 part-time Carers.
All our staff attend mandatory training in the following key areas: Health and Safety, Infection Control, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults, Fire Awareness, Medicine Awareness, Food Hygiene, Manual Handling, Mental Health Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty, and First Aid.These qualifications are updated annually.
All our staff attend mandatory training in the following key areas: Health and Safety, Infection Control, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults, Fire Awareness, Medicine Awareness, Food Hygiene, Manual Handling, Mental Health Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty, and First Aid.These qualifications are updated annually.
Meadowside offers an unusually high staff to resident ratio to ensure individuals' needs are met as part of our person-centred care ethos.
This includes: regular bathing in our Parker Bath, assisted personal hygiene, incontinence care, visiting GP and district nurse support as required, dental visits, assistance with mobility, sensory needs (including hearing and visual), nutritional support and assisted feeding, falls management, pressure area care, individual dignity, and personal and spiritual well-being.
This includes: regular bathing in our Parker Bath, assisted personal hygiene, incontinence care, visiting GP and district nurse support as required, dental visits, assistance with mobility, sensory needs (including hearing and visual), nutritional support and assisted feeding, falls management, pressure area care, individual dignity, and personal and spiritual well-being.
We also support local outings, such as to the garden centre, theatre and cinema as well as to local shops and restaurants. We also have a full in-house personalised activities programme (link here?) We encourage all our residents to treat Meadowside as if it were their own home. Many of them bring their own furniture, pictures to hang on the wall, and photographs of family members.
Meadowside provides a choice of nutritious cooked food every day. This includes seasonal fruit and vegetables. We have designed a four-week rolling menu that caters for all our residents' favourite food choices and meals. We are able to tailor individual preferences as well as provide appropriate meals to meet different dietary needs - for example, we provide meals for diabetics.
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Kathleen Brind
Oct 13, 2017
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