State-of-the-art homes to revolutionise care for the elderly
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- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00
The finishing touches are being made to two state-of-the-art complexes that will help revolutionise care for older people in Croydon.
Building work at Addington Heights and Langley Oaks resource centres is drawing to a close.
The buildings are the last of four residential and care centres built as part of a £44million project to bring care for older people into the 21st century.
Residents who move into the complexes when they open later this year will have their own bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and access to a range of care services and health advice.
The centres are designed to help people live as independently as possible with facilities that they need.
They follow the opening of Heavers Resource Centre in Selhurst in March 2009 and Fellows Court in Addiscombe which opened in December 2008.
Heavers Court has a mixture of residential and nursing care facilities. It is a flagship centre for dementia sufferers and offers integrated health and social care, delivered by Croydon Council, the Primary Care Trust, the Alzheimer's Society and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLAM).
Fellows Court has a restaurant, communal lounges on each floor, a fitness and exercise suite, a hairdressing salon, a healthy living centre, laundry room and a communal garden.
Similar facilities will be available in the two new homes and meetings with residents and their families are already taking place in preparation for their opening.
Managers will then work with the residents to ensure that their moves from their current homes are done with the minimum amount of disruption possible.
The four new centres were built to replace six old care homes - Coleby Court, Langley Oaks, Addington Heights, Stroud Green Lodge, Brigstock Manor and Cheriton House - that were not fit for modern standards of care.
Councillor Lindsay Frost, the council's cabinet member for health and adult social care, said: "These resource centres are part of a huge project that will have an enormously positive impact on the lives of people who require high levels of care.
"They are the final parts of a plan to radically improve the standard of living for hundreds of our most needy elderly residents."
