Socialising
Your family and friends are welcome to visit at any time, and tea or coffee and biscuits are always available. You can entertain visitors in your room, chat in the secluded visitors’ lounge, or on the terrace, or you can take a stroll in the gardens. Residents come and go freely. They often join their families and friends away from the home for excursions, meals, or just to have a day out. You will also have plenty of opportunities to make friends with other residents and the friendly staff are always there for a chat.
Your family and friends are welcome to visit at any time, and tea or coffee and biscuits are always available. You can entertain visitors in your room, chat in the secluded visitors’ lounge, or on the terrace, or you can take a stroll in the gardens. Residents come and go freely. They often join their families and friends away from the home for excursions, meals, or just to have a day out. You will also have plenty of opportunities to make friends with other residents and the friendly staff are always there for a chat.
Keeping active
Whether you want peace and quiet or a stimulating daily round, Edgemont House will enable you to fill your days in the way you choose. You may wish to spend time in the comfortable day room where you can watch television or simply relax, in the dining room or in the conservatory that overlooks the attractive garden.
If you enjoy gardening, you can adopt an area in the garden to look after. You are encouraged to develop and pursue any hobbies or interests you may have.
The Activities Coordinators will always ensure that you are invited to join our events, excursions and any other activities that take place, however, your decision whether to take part or not will always be respected. Residents have outings to garden centres, coffee lounges, Weston-super-Mare and other places of interest. There is also a bus stop directly outside the home with regular services to the local and wider area. We arrange sing-a-longs, musical evenings, cheese and wine parties, fish and chip lunches, quizzes and bingo. We have singers every month and a lovely Easter programme – and new ideas are always welcome! With all of these opportunities for activities in the home or for getting out for the day, you need never be without something interesting to do.
Good home cooking
Our cooks take pride in the high standard of their home cooking, using fresh local ingredients. Menus are regularly reviewed, and we will make every effort to cater for your particular tastes and preferences or special dietary needs. All mealtimes are flexible so residents can arrange to have their meals provided in their rooms or in the dining room.
Whether you want peace and quiet or a stimulating daily round, Edgemont House will enable you to fill your days in the way you choose. You may wish to spend time in the comfortable day room where you can watch television or simply relax, in the dining room or in the conservatory that overlooks the attractive garden.
If you enjoy gardening, you can adopt an area in the garden to look after. You are encouraged to develop and pursue any hobbies or interests you may have.
The Activities Coordinators will always ensure that you are invited to join our events, excursions and any other activities that take place, however, your decision whether to take part or not will always be respected. Residents have outings to garden centres, coffee lounges, Weston-super-Mare and other places of interest. There is also a bus stop directly outside the home with regular services to the local and wider area. We arrange sing-a-longs, musical evenings, cheese and wine parties, fish and chip lunches, quizzes and bingo. We have singers every month and a lovely Easter programme – and new ideas are always welcome! With all of these opportunities for activities in the home or for getting out for the day, you need never be without something interesting to do.
Good home cooking
Our cooks take pride in the high standard of their home cooking, using fresh local ingredients. Menus are regularly reviewed, and we will make every effort to cater for your particular tastes and preferences or special dietary needs. All mealtimes are flexible so residents can arrange to have their meals provided in their rooms or in the dining room.
Meeting your specific needs
Your needs and comfort are our priority and Edgemont House provides aids and equipment to ease your daily routine and meet your special requirements. General facilities include a passenger lift serving both floors, in-house laundering (apart from specialist or dry-cleaning), lockable facilities in all bedrooms, and a lock for your room can be requested. Or should you prefer, you can ask for your possessions to be stored in the main house safe. There is a call system throughout the home, as well as a comprehensive fire detection system.
The home has a range of specialist equipment to cater for particular needs, including assisted power-operated baths, assisted showers, electric height-adjustable and reclining beds. A hairdresser visits weekly, although you are free to also invite your own, or to have your key worker attend to your hair. A chiropodist also regularly comes to Edgemont House for appointments. You can retain your own GP, but if this is not possible for whatever reason, we can offer you a choice of doctors who attend to residents of the home. We ensure continuity of daily care through a hand-over system during shift changes, when residents’ current needs are discussed and arranged. The public and private rooms as well as the gardens are entirely wheelchair accessible.
One of our resident says: “I am very happy at Edgemont House. All the staff are wonderful and very caring. It is just like one big happy family, as near to ‘home from home’ as you can get.” |
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