News Care UK to open
new Kent home The latest addition to Care UK’s portfolio of homes will be a new care home being built at the Kent Medical Campus in Maidstone.
Children bring Christmas cheer to local care home
Pupils at Cramond Primary School delivered Christmas presents to people living with dementia and their carers as part of a local gift appeal for the elderly. Gifts were delivered to the Cramond
Dementia and Carers Lunch Club by primary six pupils at the club’s Christmas lunch. The Christmas Gift Appeal was organised by local care home, Cramond Residence. Throughout December, gifts were also
delivered to elderly members of the community living in isolation, as well as members of the Almond Mains Initiative, a lunch club for elderly people living in Cramond, Barnton, Almond, Cammo,
Davidson’s Mains and Silverknowes. Dorothy Brown, client relationship
manager at Cramond Residence, comments: “We have been completely overwhelmed by the generosity of the community, which has donated a huge amount to our gift appeal for the elderly. “The Cramond Dementia and Carers Lunch Club and Almond Mains Initiative are both doing great work in providing a place where elderly people can socialise and feel part of our community. It is a pleasure to be able to spread some Christmas cheer to their members with the help from pupils at Cramond Primary.”
The new care home will offer 24-hour nursing accommodation for up to 75 older people, providing a mix of rehabilitation, respite and dementia care when it opens its doors in the summer of 2020. It will also offer step-down care for patients who are well enough to leave hospital but not ready to return home. Tony Collins, chairman of Kent Medical Campus, says: “The decision by Care UK, combined with the recent opening of Cygnet Healthcare’s new hospital, means that Kent Medical Campus will soon be home to two leading national care providers, as well as Kent’s largest independent hospital KIMS. “The extent of Care UK’s collaborative business model with the NHS and public sector agencies nationwide is genuinely inspiring and we believe will enable commissioners locally and throughout the county to benefit from the range of services planned for the new facility. Care UK’s development director, Richard
Pearman, says: “We are currently finalising the design of the new care home in conjunction with the developers of the building to ensure it works as well as possible for the people who will live there and our colleagues who will support the residents.”
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