Care home offering high quality dementia care to open in Cambridgeshire

A new, state-of-the-art care home offering high quality dementia, residential and nursing care is to open in the historic market town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire.

To celebrate the occasion, pupils from a nearby primary school were invited by the home owners Care UK to name two of the homes’ suites.

Eight-year-olds Alana Bird and Jessica Walter from Thorndown Primary School chose the names Buttercup and Thorndown in a competition organised by the team at the new Field Lodge care home.

Field Lodge officially opens next month. It will offer places for 72 residents and provide employment for around 70 people. Other suites at the home have been named to reflect the area’s rich local history, including a contemporary café called the Slepe Tea Room to commemorate the original name for St Ives.

One of the dining rooms is called the Cromwell Suite, after an event during the English Civil War in the seventeenth century where Oliver Cromwell destroyed part of the bridge into the town to prevent troops sent by King Charles I from reaching London.

The facilities on offer at Field Lodge include en-suite bedrooms, landscaped gardens featuring sensory and butterfly areas, a cinema, hair salon and a nail bar. The Slepe Tea Room will also be open to members of the local community, who are welcome to visit for free refreshments.

Upcoming events at Field Lodge include celebrations to mark national Dignity Action Day on 1 February and an open day on 8 February.

Care UK runs care homes, hospitals, treatment centres, home care and day care clubs and provides a full range of homecare.