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A purpose-built dementia care home within idyllic woodlands, Holly Lodge offers tranquillity, luxury living and security for up to 60 residents living with dementia. The home provides dedicated specialist dementia support in a comfortable and familiar environment.
Innovatively designed to enhance multi-sensory stimulation and encourage reminiscence, Holly Lodge accommodates people living with different types of dementia at every stage of their journey, offering both residential dementia care and nursing dementia care on a permanent and respite basis. There are spacious, bright and homely communal areas for entertaining and dining, a dedicated activities room, on-site hair salon, pub, gallery, family room, cinema, and alcove lounges for residents and their loved ones to enjoy. Landscaped gardens provide outdoor spaces for relaxation, complete with a sensory garden.
With compassionate and experienced staff that are trained in specialist dementia care, complementary therapies and onsite dedicated dementia care nurses 24/7, the team at Holly Lodge are committed to providing the highest standards of person-centred dementia care support to ensure every resident is happy, secure, and fulfilled in their day-to-day life. Holly Lodge care home has a strong sense of community, family and friends are welcome at any time.
Winner of ‘Nursing Home of the Year’ at the Surrey Care Awards 2022 and featured in Knight Frank’s Luxury Care Home Guide in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Holly Lodge is innovatively designed throughout to accommodate people living with different types of dementia. Soft furnishings of varying textures allow residents to easily distinguish between items, and contrasting tones and colourful digital wallpapers provide visual stimulus.
There are spacious communal areas for entertaining and dining, a dedicated activities room, on-site hair salon, Holly Bush pub, gallery, family room, cinema, and alcove lounges for residents and their loved ones to enjoy.
Holly Lodge won Forest Care’s ‘Love your Garden’ competition in 2024 creating a beautiful, relaxing and interactive outdoor space for everyone to enjoy – landscaped gardens with scented and visually stimulating plants and vegetables, a tranquil courtyard and water feature providing movement and tranquillity. Activity Lead Shelley comments: “Our garden has transformed with an extended natural ‘room’ to visit and enjoy by all, an amazing team effort!” Holly Lodge even cultivates honey from its own beehives.
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Holly Lodge is our award-winning purpose-built specialist dementia care home in Surrey, offering both residential dementia care and nursing dementia care on a permanent and respite care basis, and welcoming residents with different conditions and stages of dementia. Holly Lodge uses contemporary design to create calming and stimulating environments, with digital wallpapers of familiar destinations for reminiscence therapy, and soft furnishings of varying textures to allow residents to easily distinguish between items. Little touches such as memory boxes are a talking point and orientation aid enabling residents to easily find their bedrooms. Their activity team organises a variety of engaging and multi-sensory group and one-to-one activities and experiences to help improve concentration, communication and social interaction, including ‘Guess the scent’ games, baking and gardening with different aromas and textures, textural arts & crafts, Pets as Therapy visits (alpacas, piglets and penguins to name a few!), themed props in live music sessions and textured balls during exercises.
“…Our profound gratitude for the care, kindness and respect all the staff showed mum as her dementia progressed. In the final hours of her life, the staff could not have been more professional. While it took her a little while to settle in, in all the photos we have of her at Holly Lodge she is smiling and happy which is a great comfort. She was looked after superbly and kept safe…We definitely picked the right place for her to spend her final years.” Relative review.
At Forest Care, we involve families in care and activity planning and use life story work to shape the way we engage with our residents in an interesting and meaningful way. A personal understanding of what really matters to each resident, the things they enjoy, their life histories and their achievements, all helps to create a reassuring and stimulating environment. Our compassionate, experienced and dementia care trained teams provide 24/7 support for your loved ones at every stage of their dementia journey, filling their days with activities that bring joy and provide a sense of purpose and achievement.
Our doors are always open for families, for a cup of tea or to toast a special occasion, and we are always here if you wish to talk about your loved one’s care or any aspect of the home.
Beds available at our Surrey care home Holly Lodge
Our activities team organises a variety of fun and engaging group and one-to-one activities and experiences for our residents living with dementia. Activities are multi-sensory, designed to alleviate dementia symptoms, helping to improve concentration and communication, encouraging reminiscence and social interaction.
Our activities at our Surrey care home are planned around each person living with dementia in accordance with their care needs, daily wishes and cultural interests. There are gentle activities for residents who are less mobile and able. We involve families in care and activity planning, using life story work to shape the way we engage with our residents in an interesting and meaningful way. A personal understanding of what really matters to each resident, the things they enjoy, their life histories and their achievements, helps to create a reassuring and stimulating environment.
Looking for dementia care? Come along to an Open Afternoon at Holly Lodge on the last Thursday of the month from 2-4pm. Meet our wonderful team, get a feel for our home, and enjoy live musical entertainment with tea and cake!
To book your personal viewing email enquiries@forestcare.co.uk or call 0333 305 1785.
Our compassionate and experienced teams of Nurses and Carers provide 24/7 support for our residents with all their personal care and nursing care needs. Our aim is to improve the quality of life for our residents with a safe, comfortable, home-from-home environment, beautifully decorated rooms and tranquil outdoor spaces, nutritious and delicious homecooked meals and a choice of meaningful and joyful activities, including one-to-one and gentle activities for residents who are less mobile or able.
We intentionally set our staffing ratios above industry-standard ratios, to enable a relaxed environment for our residents where staff can deliver person-centred care.
Our activities team organises a variety of fun and engaging group and one-to-one activities and experiences for our residents living with dementia. Activities are multi-sensory, designed to alleviate dementia symptoms, helping to improve concentration and communication, encouraging reminiscence and social interaction.
Our activities are planned around each person living with dementia in accordance with their care needs, daily wishes and cultural interests. There are gentle activities for residents who are less mobile and able. We involve families in care and activity planning, using life story work to shape the way we engage with our residents in an interesting and meaningful way.
We pride ourselves on running care homes that are a “home” in the truest sense and always respect our residents’ preferences for privacy and choice. Our residents and their families can relax knowing that the all-inclusive fee covers all the care they need. There are no administration fees, no deposits and no hidden extras.
Providing well-rounded care is important to us, we endeavour to look after residents’ physical and medical needs, as well as their social, mental and emotional well-being. Although physiotherapy, chiropody and hairdressing are not regulatory requirements, we believe they form an integral part of our resident’s care and should be provided at no additional cost. To find out more visit our All-inclusive fees page
Listen to what Margaret has to say about her experience with Holly Lodge: “One thing that has always been here is the kindness of all the carers, the kindness of all the staff, it’s like it’s an honour for them to look after that person…I feel like I’m coming from my home to my home.”
Our doors are always open for families, for a cup of tea or to toast a special occasion, and we are always here if you wish to talk about your loved one’s care or any aspect of the home.
This all depends on what the specific reason for needing care is. Aside from the dementia aspect, if a person has a clinical need such as a pressure sore, catheter, tube feeding or some specialist medication, e.g., for diabetes, then typically they will require a nursing home (officially called ‘Care Home with Nursing). If their need only relates to help with daily tasks such as eating, washing, and dressing, then they would typically need a residential care home (officially called Care Home).
Our care home Holly Lodge located in Frimley, Surrey is an award-winning care home that specialises in dementia care. Holly Lodge accommodates people living with different types of dementia at every stage of their journey, offering both residential dementia care and nursing dementia care on a permanent and respite basis.
With compassionate and experienced staff that are trained in specialist dementia care, complementary therapies and on-site dedicated dementia care nurses 24/7, the team at Holly Lodge are committed to providing the highest standards of person-centred dementia care support to ensure every resident is happy, secure, and fulfilled in their day-to-day life. Explore Holly Lodge care home here.
The signs vary from person to person. A person can exhibit certain characteristics such as simple forgetfulness for many years before that becomes more serious, such as forgetting appointments or directions or frequently losing things. There are different stages to dementia and each stage typically exhibits subtle changes where signs and symptoms become more obvious.
We provide a diverse and inclusive activities programme adapted to the daily wishes of residents from arts & crafts, pampering days, themed tea parties and live music to intergenerational activities with local schools, visiting entertainers, Pets as Therapy, and organised day trips. All residents have the choice of taking part. For those who are less able we provide one-to-one activities such as hand massages, games and reading.
Our weekly fees depend on individual needs, and they are based on a comprehensive pre-admission assessment. Fees are quoted as ‘gross weekly’, which means they are the total you will be asked to pay. The NHS Registered Nursing Care Contribution (RNCC) also known as Free Nursing Care (FNC), will be applied for if relevant and refunded to you if awarded. Your on-going weekly fees will then be reduced by the rate of FNC at the time.
