Byron Lodge

Byron Lodge is situated on the ground floor. It comprises of 12 single en-suite bed sitting rooms. We encourage the elderly care or dementia care user to personalise their bedrooms and assistance is available to achieve this if required.

The unit has been designed to enable, not disable service users. Service users will be those with a range of dementia related illness such as alzheimers disease, multi infarct dementia, lewy body disease, kosakoffs syndrome and huntingtons disease etc.

Negative attitudes towards dementia care are disappearing and the concept of persons centred care has been the key to this change. We believe good care improves standards by concentrating on the person and not just the illness. Previously care received by people suffering from dementia lacked imagination and people were in environments where they were likely to become increasingly confused and dependent on staff. At Cedar Court our modern methods of dementia care enable people to be treated as individuals with a need to retain connections with earlier parts of their lives and to be treated with dignity and respect.

The décor, pictures, colours and soft furnishings have been specially chosen following research produced by Stirling University and the Alzheimers Disease Society. This research has demonstrated to us the significance of the effects of colour and patterns and how these can effect the behaviour of those service users with dementia.

One of Byron Lodge's residents

To maintain orientation and lessen anxiety all door signage is in written and makaton format this enables the service user to make sense of their environment thus ensuring they are empowered and are enabled to make choices.

There is a dedicated activities area to provide opportunities for service users to make use of any skills they may have or to learn new ones. These activities will match the levels of service users ability dependant on the stage of their dementia.

There will be opportunities for purposeful activity such as washing up, preparing snacks or being happily busy tending to plants in the garden. A great deal of thought and care has been given to the garden design in relation to the service user group that will be using it. This has resulted in provision of a safe secure outdoor area with barrier free access from French doors in the lounge dining area. A circular path has been incorporated wide enough for a wheelchair this leads the service user back to the beginning. There are resting areas around the garden where service users can enjoy the sensory features in the garden ie) fragrances, textures and colours of the various specifically chosen plants.

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