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Holly Lodge A purpose-built dementia care home framed by woodland, 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. Residents enjoy spacious and homely communal areas for entertaining and dining, a dedicated activities room, hair salon, pub, gallery, family room and cinema. Outside, a landscaped garden and tranquil courtyard provide space for relaxation, complete with a sensory garden.
With compassionate and experienced staff that are trained in specialist dementia care, on-site dementia care nurses 24-hours a day and complementary therapies, 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 and our open visiting policy means family and friends are welcome at any time.
All-inclusive fees cover hairdressing, physiotherapy, chiropody, days out, and other facilities Holly Lodge has to offer.
“Holly Lodge is an excellent dementia care home. The staff are brilliant – caring, friendly, and attentive. The activities and entertainment is engaging – you can see the resident’s enjoyment. Holly Lodge gives relatives ‘peace of mind’ that their loved ones are safe and well looked after.” Relative review on carehome.co.uk
Our activities team prioritise resident wellbeing by organising a variety of meaningful and joyful group, individual and one-to-one activities and experiences for our residents living with dementia. This includes activities tailored for residents who are less mobile and able. Activities are multi-sensory, designed to alleviate dementia symptoms and help to improve concentration and communication, and encourage 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, their daily wishes and cultural interests and supported by their life-stories in line with Holly Lodge’s ethos of a person-centred approach to care.. We involve families in care and activity planning to gain a personal understanding of what really matters to each resident and learn about their favourite pastimes and hobbies so we can tailor activities to suit their preferences.
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.”
To provide the care our residents deserve, we set our staffing levels above industry-standard ratios, to enable a more-relaxed environment for our residents where person-centred care can be delivered without having to be rushed. We have Nurses on-site 24-hours a day.
Our talented Catering Team prides themselves on offering freshly prepared meals every day using locally sourced ingredients wherever possible. We continually look at new and exciting ways to encourage nutrition and hydration. Specific allergy and dietary requests are always catered for.
We think it’s important that you hear from our residents, their families and our great staff. Visit our reviews page to listen to their stories and read the wonderful testimonials on the UK’s leading care home comparison site: www.carehome.co.uk
Choosing a care home can be a difficult and emotional process and we understand the impact of a dementia diagnosis on residents and their families. We aim to make it a little easier by providing exceptional care in a happy and homely environment using contemporary design to create both calming and stimulating environments for people living with dementia.
Specialist dementia care can help to meet the needs of people living with dementia as their condition progresses and ease the distress for those who have been caring for them. We involve families in care planning to ensure each resident has an individual care plan that meets all their medical, physical, emotional and social needs, and we work closely with families to ensure that the move for their loved one is a smooth and positive one. Our open visiting policy means family and friends are welcome at any time.
Congratulations to Shelley our Activity Lead at Holly Lodge who is a Finalist for NAPA’s ‘Rising Star Award’. Shelley has made such a huge difference to the lives of our residents living with dementia with her joyful and meaningful activities and experiences. She demonstrates her understanding of our residents’ needs with time, kindness and compassion. All the best of luck Shelley for the awards night on the 24 January 2025!
Congratulations to Holly Lodge who won Forest Care’s ‘Love your Garden’ competition! A special thanks to Gardener Andy for his upkeep of the gardens at Holly Lodge, and his collaboration with our Activities Team and Maintenance Manager Claude, and our lovely residents who all came together to create a beautiful, relaxing and interactive outdoor space for everyone to enjoy. Our garden beds are filled with scented and visually stimulating plants and vegetables, a new water feature provides movement and tranquillity. Shelley comments: “Our garden has transformed with an extended natural ‘room’ to visit and enjoy by all, an amazing team effort!”
Holly Lodge wins ‘Nursing Home of the Year’ at the Surrey Care Awards 2022! Rico our Home Manager comments; “We are thrilled and so proud to receive this award, it means so much to the team here who feel that their continuous hard work, love, care and commitment towards the residents has paid off”.
