Care and facilities at Briardene Care Home

At Briardene the staff work within the philosophy of true person-centred dementia care. Our complex dementia services support individuals to make their own decisions and choices regarding daily life and social activity. Relationships are developed through a key worker approach that helps make every day meaningful for everyone, creating emotional and social attachment together. Life skills are an equally important aspect of well-being and everyone is supported in taking part in their own care.

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.