A home should take time to make the first resident feel welcome

Last week in our new Calderdale care home, Savile Park, we welcomed our first resident, Mrs Anne Baines into her new home.

I know that Mrs Baines has lived only a few miles from the Savile Park vicinity for most of her life so I’m really pleased that she will be living in an area which she knows so well. We never under estimate what a big step it is moving into a new environment but I know that Paula, the home manager, and her team of carers will go to every length to make sure the move is as smooth as possible.

We arranged a special buffet lunch for the former secretary of Rawson Infant & Junior School in Boothtown, and also gave her a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Here she is below pictured with our MD Mark Greaves.

Mrs Baines who was a regular tennis player at Crow Wood Park of Sowerby Bridge, was delighted to have her best and oldest friend, Mr Jim Kershaw move into the home on a short-term basis. Savile Park’s third resident, Mr John Ketley, was also at the lunch, where we presented both gentlemen with welcome gifts.

Savile Park is a luxurious, specialist dementia home and provides residency for 55 people. We pride ourselves on making our homes great places to live. We welcome both private and local authority residents, and charge no top-up fees making it - and all homes in the Ideal Care Homes group – a place that people can afford to live.