Opening date set for new £13m care home in Dawlish
A £13 million care home in Dawlish, Devon, has announced a community open day as the date is set for a soft launch inviting local people to have a look around.
Claremont Manor, a 71-bed care home with five-star facilities, will offer personalised residential, dementia and nursing care in a luxurious setting when it opens in March.
Ahead of the home opening next month, members of the local community are invited to experience a preview of everything it will offer at an open day on Saturday, February 24th, from 11am to 4pm. The team will welcome visitors with activities and entertainment, home tours and tasty treats inspired by dishes from the home’s menus and rustled up by the new chef.
Claremont Manor is the latest addition to the Maria Mallaband Care Group (MMCG) portfolio of more than 80 care homes across the UK and boasts luxury features ranging from large en-suite rooms to landscaped grounds, with sensitive planting to encourage insect and animal life.
The spacious and modern facilities, some of which many you might not expect of a care home, include a hair and beauty salon, a cinema room, a wellness suite, private dining and leisure suite as well as a Grandchildren’s room, where families with younger children can meet and enjoy time together.
Carla Bowman, Senior Operations Manager at MMCG, said: “This is such an exciting time for all of us at MMCG, especially the new team who will take this home forward; we cannot wait to share this exceptional home with the Dawlish community.
“For those moving in next month, it will be the beginning of an exciting new chapter. Claremont has first-class care at its heart, but our ambition goes way beyond that. We want to create a vibrant happy community where people feel they belong, be themselves and continue to love life and live it to the fullest.”
MMCG’s groupwide lifestyle programme More…. will be very much in evidence at Claremont Manor. Its aim, as the name evokes, is giving people more to enjoy, putting happiness and wellbeing at the heart of everything, supporting people to maintain their hobbies and interests whilst also having the opportunity to try new ones.
The new lifestyle team will begin by getting to know everyone living with them - creating a personalised lifestyle plan for each, capturing their likes and dislikes, hobbies and interests, and the activities they would like to try or continue with.
Among a varied programme will be Just Bowl indoor bowls - adapted to meet the needs and abilities of those living within care settings, and More…Movement exercise sessions, alongside use of ‘Oomph! On Demand – an online resource created for the care sector, offering a choice of live and recorded exercise sessions, virtual tours, language lessons, history talks, music concerts, interactive quizzes and more.
And MMCG’s Hug on a Plate Hospitality programme will see favourite and familiar dishes meaningful to those living in the home added to the menu, boosting connection and happiness at mealtimes.
As well as offering the best possible environment and care, the aim is that Claremont Manor will bring wider benefits and become a valued part of the local community. The home has already been engaged, working with The Strand Centre Food Bank, attending the bi-annual EAT Dawlish market showcasing Hug on a Plate, and Sponsoring the Dawlish Celebrates Carnival in August.
Added Carla: “I’m happy to say we’ve received the warmest of welcomes and a huge amount of interest already. This will be an exceptional place to live and work and we are so excited to see it come to life and become an integral and valued part of this fantastic community.”
For more information about the provision and availability at Claremont Manor call 01626 221 591.
