Facilities

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Residents’ laundry is included in the weekly fee (excluding dry cleaning). Residents’ families are requested to mark service users’ clothes with their initials and/or room number in permanent marker or with sewn in labels.

Diet

Meals are catered to residents’ individual choices. All meals are home cooked and are well balanced, to ensure a healthy diet is eaten by all.

Special diets are also catered for.

Visiting services to the home

Chiropodist
Optician
Dentist
Hearing Services (NHS)
Hairdresser

(Some services require a small charge, not included in the standard fees).

Residents are encouraged to participate in religious services and attend places of worship if they wish.

Televisions, radios and any other special items, pictures and photographs can be brought in, in order for service users to personalise their own rooms.

Oxley Lodge has assisted bathing and shower facilities.

Outings and Entertainment

Social activities are encouraged on a daily basis, including such things as: Bingo, Manicures, Hairdressing, Exercises, Life Story Reminiscence, Holy Communion (where required), Outings to the local shops, Sing-a-longs and an activity box, which includes board games, dominoes, cards and magnetic darts. There is an Activities Co-ordinator employed by the company who oversees all activities within the home and ensures that each individual service user is included in activities of their choice.

The entertainment and activities co-ordinator also arranges for entertainers to come into the home on a regular basis. Entertainers such as singers, musical instrument players and theatre shows. We also have children from a local primary school to come and sing to the residents at times of certain religious festivals. These visits ensure that all residents are involved in activities.

Our local vicar conducts a service every month.

Oxley Lodge actively encourages families and friends of residents to maintain contact with the service users and to take an active interest in the running of the home as well as planned activities. Relatives are also encouraged to be involved with care planning of service users.

Residents’ meetings are held every 3 months, which enable views and opinions to be put forward to management. Action plans and time scales for completion of issues are agreed amongst all involved.

Oxley Lodge has a pets policy, which is available for viewing at our home.

Oxley Lodge has a complaints procedure that is available at our home.