Care and facilities at Appletree Grange Care Home

Appletree Grange provides residential care to our residents and we also care for people at various stages of their dementia journey. We get excellent reviews from families and visitors and you would find it hard to walk down the corridor without seeing a smiling friendly face. Home is where you feel safe and secure enough to be yourself, which is why our indoor and outdoor environments are welcoming and relaxing with easy navigation, supporting freedom and independence within a safe space. All our rooms are en-suite and are decorated to a high standard. We have daily visits from our local GP and nurses who know all our residents very well and are available at a moments notice. Our hairdressers visit twice weekly and we also have a chiropodist who is a regular visitor. Our Home is very much a part of the local community and we have regular visits from the local schools and churches. We also visit our community centre on a weekly basis and the local garden centre, with its home-made scones and cakes, is a must see for all our residents.

We are now using handheld digital technology called 'Enable' internally to develop, update and manage our care and life enrichment documentation for residents. We work with one of the UK’s major digital care home documentation providers and have a bespoke platform to manage documentation digitally which aligns with our wish to deliver the highest quality individual care and life enrichment. You will see our team members using hand-held devices as the care plans and life enrichment preferences will be accessed via the device on an App. This will mean that it may look like our teams are using their mobile telephones, rest assured this is not the case and all technology used in the home is there to support our residents and relatives. There are so many benefits in moving to using digital technology to care for our residents, and for the staff working at the home including improving communication and collaboration between teams, increasing accuracy of care intervention recording and becoming more environmentally friendly.