Retirement Living Apartments
Portland House
Clarence Street
Newton le Willows, St Helens
Merseyside, WA12 9EU
Tel: 01925 294121
Sales & Lettings Tel: 0800 328 1656
Scheme Information
Portland House is a retirement living with care community for eight older people with dementia. Developed in partnership with St Helens Social Services and Villages Community Housing, it received the ‘Housing Achievement of the Year’ from The Municipal Journal magazine in 2004.
Portland House has been taken up by the Department of Health as a model of best practice.
Like MHA’s other specialist dementia services, it owes its person-centred approach not only to MHA’s guiding ethos but also to recommendations developed by Professor Tom Kitwood.
Members of staff work to maintain residents’ skills and delay or prevent admission to residential or nursing care. Carers encourage an individual’s sense of self and get to know a person’s life history.
Comparing work at Portland House with previous jobs, one staff member commented: “It’s so different here. We don’t take anything away from people, they can be as independent as possible – it’s great.”
Apartments for rent
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Key Facts Documents (20/21)
