Cedars Residential Home offers residential care 24 hours a day. We run a 28-bedroomed, comfortable home for men and women over 65 years of age. The aim of The Cedars is to provide the highest standard of care and to make The Cedars as ‘home like’ as possible. We do this by assisting our residents to live with dignity while providing the necessary support to enable them to lead a full and active life, and to give our residents the fundamental right to self-determination and individuality.
The home does not offer nursing care but we have excellent support from the local Doctors’ surgery, the community nurses and other health professionals. Residents may request visits from their G.P. as necessary and these visits would be in the privacy of their own room. We are able to offer accommodation to residents who are catheterised, but unfortunately, not to those who are doubly incontinent.
Cedars Residental Home are able to consider potential residents who need to be encouraged or persuaded to eat and we are able to cater for varied dietary needs, i.e. diabetics or coeliacs, but we do not accept new residents who are incapable of feeding themselves.
While we are happy to offer accommodation to people with little notice, we do not have registration to enable us to accept emergency admissions. (This is where a room is permanently set up for emergencies and residents’ stay on a short-term basis.) We do however, offer respite care should a room be available.
Residents are given their own mail unopened, as soon as it arrives. We will soon have a dedicated residents’ telephone line, however, if they wish, they may have a telephone line put directly into their own room, which would be a private arrangement between the resident and British Telecom, and would be at the resident’s expense.
It is our intention to offer residents a good standard of living, in comfortable, homely conditions. All residents’ rooms have the facility of an en-suite W.C. and washbasin, so they can be sure of privacy.
We make every effort to maintain the house in good order, comfortably furnished and attractively decorated. This extends to the well-maintained garden that residents can take full advantage of, when the weather permits.
