46 places for dementia care
Claybourne Care Home
Turnhurst Road
Chell, Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire, ST6 6LA
Tel: 01782 790500
Claybourne in Stoke-on-Trent, is a dedicated care home for people living with dementia. The home, which has recently undergone a £145,000 refurbishment, is built in three 'avenues' that are each home to 15 residents.
Each 'avenue' contains residents’ rooms, a living/dining room, assisted bathrooms and ancillary features so that, with the exception of main cooking and laundry facilities, it is ‘self contained’. Each of the lounges opens onto a patio area, which in turn allows access to the large secure gardens with paths, garden seating and a purpose-built sensory garden.
It was important that the layout should make sense to residents and allow easy access and circulation but without long, straight corridors. Doors, fittings and fixtures were chosen to reinforce a sense of “home” but at the same time residents have maximum visibility to aid orientation.
Fundamental to the design is a large central foyer area which links the groups and provides space in which residents can walk, sit or engage in activities. Here, too, residents can meet for services or larger functions. The hair dressing salon opens off this central area.
Claybourne and Mayfields in Ellesmere Port, were the first dementia care homes purpose-built to MHA’s design. It was planned and developed as part of MHA’s Jubilee Celebrations in 1997 and opened by HRH The Prince of Wales. Its single-storey design was based upon research current at the time and upon MHA’s experience of caring for older people with dementia.
We are committed to providing alternative therapies such as reflexology and music therapy, which does much to help promote the well-being of each individual, while our Chaplain offers pastoral support to all, whatever their beliefs.
Funded through charitable support, every MHA care home also prides itself in being able to offer unique and memorable opportunities and activities for residents to quite literally help them 'seize the day'.
