Business Type - Purpose-built care home and nursing home
Address - 40 Richardson Road, Blunsdon St Andrew, Swindon SN25 4DS
Telephone - 01793 987730
Website - www.ridgewayrise.com
According to the team at Ridgeway Rise, everything they do is people-centred.
"We're a home that has a real emphasis on being a home," a spokesperson explained.
"It is our residents' home and we have the privilege of caring for them.
"We say everything we do is person-centred. It's not as though we have a cookie cutter approach and everyone has to do the same thing. We take a lot of time in helping residents settle into their new home - and also help their families, because it's a really big decision to make which can be a very difficult time.
"We really get to know that person as an individual."
Residents range from people who simply need the comfort, companionship and varied programme of activities a well-run care home can offer, to people with more acute needs, such a those with dementia or who are approaching the end of their life.
All are promised dignity, kindness and the opportunity to pursue hobbies and interests.
"We really encourage people to continue with hobbies, or perhaps to pick up ones that have lapsed for a number of reasons, but what we also do is present them with new things that they perhaps would not have tried or never even considered doing.
"Inside the home we have a hair and beauty salon. A hairdresser comes in. We have cinema. We've got beautiful landscaped gardens, so if you're a little bit green-fingered and still want to be doing gardening, everything we do is accessible to everyone."
"We really try to maintain links with our local community, and that's really important because a lot of people will have had those links before they moved in with us.
"We're always out and about in the community, we're always taking our residents out, be it to the local age-related group, a local cafe for a cuppa and a cake, going to a garden centre, going to the pub - all of those things that a person has done before they moved into the home.
"Quite often it's difficult for family members to facilitate that, but when somebody moves into our home we're able to reignite it and being back all those happy moments."
The personnel at Ridgeway Rise includes not just a team of qualified nurses who are on duty at all times but other team members ranging from skilled chefs to dedicated maintenance, housekeeping and laundry teams.
A spokesperson said: "Our team are the kindest, most passionate, most caring individuals.
"We have a really talented and experienced team, and they are there to support our residents. That support means different things for every single resident because we do this person-centred care.
"Our home manager has been working at this home for five years, and I think that really demonstrates how committed our team is."
The spokesperson readily summed up the overall ethos of the home in caring for residents and making sure their needs are met as well as providing a warm and inviting homely setting with the best care and an enriched lifestyle: "It's a real privilege."
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