Care home design
Delivering wellbeing through innovative design
Anavo Capital was established last year to develop dementia care homes with an innovative environment that aims to give residents a sense of purpose while maintaining their independence. Here, director Ed Moore explains how its developments will be the hubs of the local community using a model of care based on the latest international research
In early 2020, Tom Brookes, Jamie Braganza and I founded Anavo. Tom has worked in the care sector for close to 20 years and has developed a formidable reputation in the industry for his ability to successfully lead and deliver radical transformational programmes and drive innovation to deliver outstanding quality care.
Jamie is an operator at heart, and cares deeply about doing the right thing for the residents, their loved ones and making a tangible difference to people’s lives. My expertise is in real estate development, investment underwriting and the implementation of value enhancement strategies. I believe that the environment and quality care are closely interlinked. The physical environment in care settings positively influences outcomes achieved for residents and the work experience for staff members.
Anavo’s eminent advisory board includes Care England chief executive Professor Martin Green, Dr. Kabir Jivraj, a co-founder and managing director of AgeCare in Canada - which operates a portfolio of over 2400 beds/suites for the elderly - and Lorraine Lee, an experienced operations director with over 30 years of experience within the sector.
Anavo’s portfolio includes developing and operating care homes for the elderly across the UK, designed in partnership with Liberty Care Developments. With over 15 years of experience in the sector, Liberty has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry as well as creative niche developers. Liberty managing director Andy Baddeley, who also sits on Anavo’s advisory board, is well placed to help deliver Anavo’s innovative vision. Anavo has also commissioned C Squared
We plan to utilise the household model creating groups of eight to ten residents with similar interests who share communal spaces
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Architects, who specialise in care home designs that can minimise confusion and disorientation for residents with dementia.
Anavo and Liberty’s objective for the next five years is to build a minimum of six brand new homes across the UK. Four of these projects are already in the active planning application stage with care homes in Whitchurch in Shropshire, Crewe in Cheshire, Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, and Lancing in West Sussex. Their completion is expected in 2022-23, with further sites identified and already in the development pipeline. A rigorous focus on sustainable innovation in care programmes has driven our commitment to clearly define what Anavo’s model will look like, with the sole purpose of making life measurably better for the people in our care. The care sector has been hit hard during the pandemic but Anavo’s proposition is based on the belief that affordable care that empowers people in the later stage of their life should be more widely available.
With over 850,000 people in the UK currently living with dementia, and the number predicted to rise rapidly in the next three decades, the time is right to
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