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Forest Care Village Elstree and Borehamwood

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Forest Care Village Elstree and Borehamwood
10-20 Cardinal Avenue
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire
WD6 1EP

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Key Features

  • Close Care Unit
  • Seperate Dementia Unit
  • Purpose Built Home
  • Shared Rooms Available
  • Ground Floor Accommodation Only
  • Lift and/or Stairlift
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Specialist Lifting/Bathing Equipment
  • Nurse Call System
  • Retain Own GP
  • En-Suite Facilities
  • Residents Can Bring Their Own Furniture
  • TV Point In Room
  • Telephone Point In Room
  • Pets Allowed
  • A Bar/CafĂ© For Residents
  • Caters For Special Diets
  • Independent Living Training
  • Organised Worship On Site
  • Near Public Transport
  • Near Shops
  • Mini Bus or Other Transport
  • Activities and Excursions

Resident or Visiting Professionals

  • Speech Therapist
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Physiotherapist
  • Alternative Therapists
  • Dietician
  • Doctor
  • Specialist Nurses
  • Dentist
  • Optician
  • Chiropodist
  • Hairdresser

Forest Care Village is one of the largest independent care centres in the UK. It is purpose built, with state of the art facilities, designed to meet the wide variety of specialist needs for clients requiring long term care and rehabilitation. It is a unique concept in caring, but at the same time is a wonderfully welcoming, warm and vibrant place to live. Forest Care Village provide 24-hour nursing care, delivered by highly trained registered nurses, care assistants and our visiting therapies team. Where possible, clients have the choice of gender for their care

Forest Care Village enables clients with Dementia to enjoy a life of quality and when possible to participate in the everyday life of our centre. We provide Dementia services to older people and those with working age Dementia with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, or other forms of cognitive impairment, who display non-aggressive characteristics and moderate to high confusion. Our Dementia facilities are safe with keypad entry codes and we have full-time lifestyle coordinators who attend Alzheimer's Society training. Our Dementia care services follow the Alzheimer's Society, Bradford & Sterling University Our purpose-built physiotherapy suite is large, light and airy and has the latest equipment to promote mobility, ease-of-movement and posture management. Clients can be treated in their rooms if unable to attend the gym. We are also able to provide hydrotherapy services in partnership with the local orthopaedic hospital. Our therapy and rehabilitation facilities and services are overseen by a retained NHS consultant in rehabilitative medicine. An individual lifestyle is essential, no matter how young, old or how dependent we are, so our staff ensure lifestyle choices are maintained. Our clients enjoy visiting local shops, an evening at the cinema, a quiz afternoon, or simply watching television in the privacy of their bedroom. It's vital our clients keep active mentally and physically to make the most of every day. At Forest Care Village clients are spoilt for choice with art workshops, flower arranging, handicrafts, games & quizzes, parties, shopping, visiting speakers, live performances, musical evenings, gardening, computer games & internet, clients' association as well as religious observance services. In the summer we have garden tea parties and barbecues and meals can be taken on the terrace. Days out are frequent to London's many attractions, the seaside or shopping. Making new friends is easy at Forest Care Village and everyone has the opportunity to join in. At Forest Care Village, you're never alone.