Caring for the Elderly

Quality all the way at Central Park Nursing Home

Located in the heart of the quaint village of Clonberne situated in North-East Galway, Central Park Nursing Home offers top quality care provided by highly skilled and dedicated staff. 

  Central Park Nursing Home is a purpose-built, family-run Nursing Home providing long-term care respite and short-term holiday care. Their location affords easy access from Galway, Roscommon, Ballinasloe and surrounding areas while still retaining the charm of its idyllic country setting.

  Central Park Nursing Home is committed to delivering a caring health care service, in a home from home environment that

Quality all the way at Central Park Nursing Home

Located in the heart of the quaint village of Clonberne situated in North-East Galway, Central Park Nursing Home offers top quality care provided by highly skilled and dedicated staff. 

  Central Park Nursing Home is a purpose-built, family-run Nursing Home providing long-term care respite and short-term holiday care. Their location affords easy access from Galway, Roscommon, Ballinasloe and surrounding areas while still retaining the charm of its idyllic country setting.

  Central Park Nursing Home is committed to delivering a caring health care service, in a home from home environment that fosters mutual respect for the rights and dignity of all, where care practices reflect a person-centred approach.

  Their new state-of-the-art extension is open and registered with the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). They have 35 single ensuites, 4 double ensuites, 10 double rooms and 1 single room. There are 4 intimate dining rooms to enjoy a superb choice of dishes prepared by their kitchen. After dinner, lodgers can relax in one of their many living rooms and catch up on a few soaps or the latest football matches.

  You can always relax in their calm and healing therapy room complete with a heated musical water bed and look up at the tranquil constellation projected on the ceiling while listening to the soothing sounds of nature or music of your choice. If you enjoy kicking back with a good movie and some treats, then their cinema room is the place for you. 

  Central Park also offers the use of a cutting-edge Hydrotherapy Endless Pool that was shipped over from the United States. This pool provides a constant adjustable current for the swimmer to swim against creating a water workout incorporating hydrotherapy into a recovery programme or general fitness. The adjustable level of difficulty makes an endless pool suitable for people at all levels of swimming ability. Work along with our on-site Physiotherapist to design the best programme to suit you.

Full facilities at the nursing home include a Hydrotherapy Pool, Therapy Room, Treatment Room, Visitor’s overnight stay room, a selection of day rooms and dining rooms, Hair and Beauty Room, Chapel, Sitting Conservatory, Cinema and Conference Room, Wifi connection throughout the building, small shop, Library, Activity room, an enclosed courtyard and gardens for dementia care, Barbecue Area, Garden walkways and seating areas on over an acre of land and open Cavery serving area from the new and enlarged kitchen

  Central Park Nursing Home can be divided into two sections: Residents Home and Memory Lane. Memory Lane is the specialised facility to cater up to 14 residents who suffer with Dementia, which is staffed separately to the rest of the home.

 Here, you will find their own personal kitchen and sitting room to sit back and enjoy a cup of tea.

These rooms have been decorated keeping in line with the needs of our residents with Dementia by keeping the living area as old-fashioned looking and homely as possible. We have used specific colours that are in agreement with our residents. 

  Just off Memory Lane is Market Street. Here, you can walk up the gravel and grass covered path where you will see the beautiful murals of shops, churches and post offices of local towns such as Clonberne, Dunmore and Tuam painted on the walls.

  Central Park Nursing Home based their whole new extension on the learnings of Dementia Care Matters after our Proprietor, Caroline Maguire and Director of Nursing, Stella Grogan, completed studies with Dementia Care Matters last year.

  Thanks to Dementia Care Matters they have seen a huge improvement in residents with dementia. It’s amazing how the little things like rummage drawers, hats and jackets hung on the wall or even colours can help someone feel more relaxed and comfortable.

  Central Park also offers have beautiful landscaped gardens; listen to the tranquil sounds of the waterfall with seating available in a colourful flowered garden. They have a large pond and you may walk over the bridge to a seated barbeque patio, where we have barbeques and picnics, weather permitting.

  Visit their residents’ pet farm where you will see chickens, ducks and geese. They also provide an enclosed courtyard with seating and enclosed garden with a glasshouse where residents enjoy doing their own gardening.

  For more information please visit our website www.centralparknursing.ie or contact 093-45231.

A real Haven in Boyle

Ideally situated in a peaceful setting on the Carrick Road, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Abbey Haven Care Centre is specifically designed to provide professional care in creating a secure, safe and comfortable home for all their residents.

  Abbey Haven is a state-of-the-art 60-bed care facility consisting of a variety of single, double rooms and family rooms, an internal courtyard and secure garden areas that promote independence,  enablement and quality of life.

  Each resident is treated with due respect, dignity and friendship in a welcoming homely atmosphere. 

  Aiming to create at atmosphere striving to deliver the very best nursing and medical care standards, residents can recuperate and build confidence and ability through choice and variety of services available.

  Identifying respect and encouraging the physical, emotional, spiritual and social care needs of all residents, their services and features include 24-hour care with dedicated professional staff, local GP cover with NowDoc during out of hours period, nurse call system, all delivery requirements catered for, TV and telephone points in all rooms and services for all denominations in beautiful sacred space area.

  They centre also offers a range of other services including audio and video link for mass and services held in St. Joseph’s Church, Boyle, Chiropody, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, on sire hair and treatment salon, hairdresser and beautician, Aromatherapy and Reflexology, personal laundry service, choice of sitting rooms, library, as well as offering outings and social activities.

  The centre is also VHI approved and has full HSE registration. 

  For further information contact Abbey Haven Care Centre, Carrick Road, Boyle, Co. Roscommon on 071-9670111, email accounts@abbeyhaven.ie or log onto www.abbeyhaven.ie

Superb care from Fearna Nursing Group

Meadowlands Nursing Home is a single-storey building set in landscaped grounds in the rural hinterland of Cloonfad village. The centre is warm and friendly and can accommodate up to 30 residents and caters for older people who need long-term care, people who have dementia care needs, respite care and residents with disabilities.

  There is a reception dock located in the lobby in the main entrance and there are two sitting rooms, one located to the main entrance and the other more spacious room is located adjacent to the dining area. There is a smoking room close to the dining and sitting room and an oratory.

  There are five toilets, three of which are wheelchair accessible, located around the building and in close proximity to the dining and sitting rooms. There is an assisted bath and an assisted shower room available for use by residents.

  The centre includes 18 bedrooms, a mixture if single and twin bedrooms all with en-suite toilets and wash-hand basins.

  For further information contact Meadowlands Nursing Home on 094-9646332 or email meadowlands@fearnacare.ie

  Fearna Nursing Home is located on Bishop Street, Elphin, and is a charming two-storey building which was built in 1840, which can cater for up to 34 residents.

  It has been converted and modified from a convent school and many of the original fractures such as stonework and tiling are still in evidence. Bedrooms for residents are located on both floors and comprise of single rooms and double rooms. Assisted toilets are provided close to the communal areas on both floors. There are stairs, a stair-lift and a shaft-lift provided to enable access to the upper-floor.

  There are mature gardens and parking spaces to the front of the building while a smaller garden off the dining room provides safe outdoor space for residents.

  The centre provides care to residents who have long-term care needs, people with dementia, respite care and convalescene care under or over 65. A local general provides medical support and specialist services are accessed through the HSE or privately as required.

  For further information contact 071-9635424 or email elphin@fearnacare.ie

  Fearna Manor Nursing Home is a residential setting on the Tarmon road a short drive or walk from the town of Castlerea, Roscommon.

  Fearna Manor is a homely, welcoming and warm bungalow style modern dwelling set on a spacious site in a quiet residential area, providing care for up to 53 residents.

  Accommodation is provided in 53 single and twin-bedded rooms which are all fresh, bright and have ensuite shower and toilet facilites. The entrance is through a bright conservatory area that leads to the man hallways and on to communal sitting areas, a dining room, bedroom and office areas. The main sitting room has two additional sitting areas leading off it and one of these is a designated smoking area.

  There are two secure gardens with artificial grass enabling year ‘round use. There is plenty of parking for residents, staff and visitors available at the front and side of the building.

  For further information contact 094-9620725 or email castlerea@fearnacare.ie

Roscommon People

Issue: 9th November 2012


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