Romford Care Home is one of several purpose-built homes from the RCH Care Homes portfolio, which supports people with elderly care and nursing requirements, as well as people with physical disabilities and various forms of dementia.
The care centre has many facilities in place to make residents’ time in care comfortable, while enjoying a number of entertainments that include a cinema room and itinerary of regular outings.
In addition to this Romford Care Home has a dementia living area called ‘Amy’s Park’, which was designed to give older people greater independence and happy living for their years ahead. With nostalgia corners residents are able to participate in one-to-one reminiscence therapy. Iconic memorabilia is in themed areas such as music, art and crafts, exercising and sports just to name a few.
Features on Amy’s Park include doors and hand rails being a distinctly different colour from the walls to ensure a person living with dementia can easily distinguish between them. The environment has been designed to enable and promote the independence of living with the individuality of the person taking precedence over everything else, even the residents own room door can be personalised to improve orientation, recognition and encouragement of being ‘at home’ with particular colours and door numbers.
Meal times are geared around enabling residents living with dementia to eat independently foods they like and also to enjoy this social experience. Dining crockery and cutlery are coloured and arranged so as to encourage people living with dementia to clearly see their meals and promote a positive meal time experience.
The home’s Edison DayLodges give residents and their families the peace-of-mind that it’s a clean and safe environment thanks to the Automatic Sanitisation System. It offers loved ones a comfortable, homely, warm and safe facility to spend quality time together.