An Insight Into The Facilities Available at Signature at Reigate Grange
Oct 26, 2022
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- Signature at Reigate Grange gives exclusive access to its luxury care home and the modern facilities it provides
‘Time stands still for no one’, a quote which is often repeated and has particularly held true for the care home sector.
In addition to the care delivered by care homes, there is an increasing onus on developers to push for increasingly ‘luxury’ care homes amid increasing public demand.
But just how luxury is luxury in a care home? To find out more, we take a look inside Signature at Reigate Grange, one such care home in Surrey, to find out more about the facilities it has on offer and how this supports its residents’ care needs.
Heading out of the countryside into Reigate along West Street, you pass a string of large houses and get the sense that this an area acclimatised with luxury living. This is a theme which extends to one of the town’s local care homes, Signature at Reigate Grange.
Its driveway takes you to an imposing Tudor-style building, behind which are 87 luxury studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments – a far cry from industry standard ‘rooms’. However, these luxury living quarters only tell half the story, with the home providing a plethora of facilities to create a real sense of community within the care home.
Paying homage to one of the town’s most famous sons, the late comedian Spike Milligan, Reigate Grange’s ‘Milligan’s Café’ provides residents and families with an opportunity to meet up and enjoy a drink or treat and relax. It is fully stocked with a selection of cakes, biscuits and other snacks. This adds to a wide range of coffee, tea and soft drinks which are on offer.
The café, which would not look out of place in the town’s high street, is one of four areas residents are able to dine in luxury. The care home also boasts a restaurant serving food on seasonal daily menus designed by an Executive Chef. Its bistro provides a versatile setting to enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner or just a cup of tea.
Whether there’s a tea party, birthday celebration, or a simple get-together a resident wishes to hold, the care home’s own in-house restaurant team and chefs provide a bespoke private dining room which comes with full table service.
Continuing the theme of a high street within a care home, Reigate Grange also provides its very own in-house cinema, complete with armchairs, a projector and a big screen covering anything from classics, comedy, romance, new releases, and feature films to documentaries and talk shows. With next month’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar approaching, the cinema will soon be broadcasting matches for residents to enjoy.
The community feel of the care home extends to residents and their families being able to arrange professional hairdressing appointments in the home’s beauty salon with the added option of other pampering options, such as manicures.
It is important to understand how these facilities interact with the home’s care offering and how this ultimately benefits its residents.
Reigate Grange harnesses its extensive food and beverage offering and, exceeding the sector-standard approach, integrates this into its My Life dementia care strategy. The care home revealed that its chefs are skilled in understanding how dementia affects nutrition and hydration, learning to create appetising meals which take into account all the senses.
All team members at the home are mandated to complete dementia training under the strategy. Crucially, the programme seeks to understand the perspective of a person living with dementia through a practical immersion workshop to gain a first-hand understanding of the daily experiences of those living with dementia.
The finer detail of its furnishings has also been considered as part of this comprehensive strategy, including how the home utilises both bright and contrasting coloured furniture to enable residents to navigate around their environment with ease and promote safer mobility.
This focus on facilities for specialist care extends to Reigate Grange’s amenities which bely a typical care home setting and would not look out of place in a luxury hotel.
What makes the facilities and the quest for luxury care at Reigate Grange all the more remarkable is that it simply shows no sign of letting up.
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