…and gets set to welcome new residents.
A Surrey care community is celebrating the completion of an extension to its dementia care facilities, which will allow it to provide 11 extra bedrooms for new residents, as well as offering enhanced living space that includes three new living areas purpose built for residents’ needs.
The Huntington & Langham Estate in Hindhead is now in position to welcome almost a dozen new residents thanks to its 11-bedroom extension at Langham Court, the estate’s specialist dementia offering, with four rooms already having been reserved by prospective residents.
Alongside the new bedrooms, three additional communal areas have also been added as part of the renovation work, while the incorporation of a new wheelchair friendly road now allows for better access to more areas of the estate, including its animal grazing fields, lake and parts of the woodland.
The extension has been fully signed off by the CQC and is now officially certified as meeting the requisite standards.
Charlie Hoare, Director of the Huntington & Langham Estate, commenting on the extension’s completion, said: “Actually being in the extension to Langham Court is incredible. It’s been a concept for years, so to be able to physically enter is wonderful. It’s turned out so much better than I’d ever hoped. It offers a calmness and a great sense of wellbeing, with views of the South Downs and the sheep grazing on the estate providing a real feeling of peacefulness and contentment. It’s surpassed everything we could’ve hoped for and we’re delighted with the outcome.”
Langham Court operates in a household model, and is made up of three distinct households, that all have their own lounge and dining area, offering small-scale living which act as self-contained communities. Residents within these households tend to gravitate towards the shared areas in the day in much the same way as you would at home, to dine together and spend time with one another, but in a way that avoids the mass dining experience of many other care homes.
The new extension adds an additional household of eight residents, with three further bedrooms also added to the lower ground floor. Furthermore, three day rooms have been added to an existing part of Langham Court, which serve to offer residents an alternative place to spend their day, allowing them to take in a different outlook over the fields and the wider estate as they see fit.
Charlie Hoare added: “With four rooms having already been reserved, we’re getting set to welcome residents to the new household within Langham Court. This is always an exciting time, but it’s even more so now as we anticipate the extension really coming to life as residents move in. It’s people that make a home, and we’re really looking forward to embracing that true ‘lived in’ sense as the new residents arrive.”
Charlie continued: “One thing we always encourage our residents to do is to bring lots of personal possessions with them to make the space feel more homely. This isn’t limited to the bedrooms; we encourage this personalisation to spill out to our hallways and day rooms too. Langham Court is an accredited Butterfly home, which means it follows a model of care that focuses on the individual, valuing their emotional intelligence and delivering relationship-based care. Creating a space with personality enthused décor plays a large part in capturing the essence of the Butterfly model, which sits at the heart of what we do.”
The Huntington & Langham Estate is made up of two specialist family-run care homes, which offer high-quality residential, nursing and dementia care, set amongst 30-acres of garden and woodland.
Its outstanding outdoor environment includes fields that are home to sheep, horses and chickens, as well as extensive woodlands, honey-producing beehives, and a lily-bedecked pond frequented by a variety of waterfowl. The new road will provide greater access to these areas for residents, allowing them to spend more time outdoors – something that’s regarded as ever more important in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
For more information about the Estate, please visit https://huntingtonlangham.estate/ or call 01428 604600.
