In the Spotlight...Penwortham Grange & Lodge

As part of our ‘in the spotlight’ series, we look behind-the-scenes in one of our homes, with this week’s focus on Penwortham Grange & Lodge in Lancashire. Penwortham Grange & Lodge is a modern, purpose-built care home, located approximately three miles from the City of Preston, in the bustling town of Penwortham, in South Ribble. The home provides specialist care for older people, some of whom are living with dementia. Penwortham Grange provides 24-hour residential care for 44 residents, while the separate Penwortham Lodge gives round the clock additional dementia support for 42 elderly residents. The home also provides short-term respite care, and benefits from a number of light and spacious communal areas, where residents can meet with friends or family. Gardening is a popular activity in the home, with residents frequently making the most of its attractive, enclosed gardens, with the more green-fingered regularly getting involved in planting and tendering the garden.  The home also has strong links with the local community, including a relationship with nearby Kingsfold Primary school. Residents regularly visit and host children from the school for arts and craft sessions, as well as music and drama performances. An on-site multi-faith room is also a central feature of the home, available to all residents, with weekly mass services from the local Church are livestreamed every weekend. As for its food and beverage offering, the home has an on-site vintage café, where Afternoon tea sessions are regularly hosted, and a ‘hydration station’, where residents can serve themselves fresh fruit and drinks at any time. A daily changing menu is available to all residents, prepared by the home’s team of Chefs, focusing on nutrition, taste, and variety, and drawing on seasonal and local produce. A diverse programme of events and activities, led by a team of dedicated Activity Coordinators, is also on offer to all residents, including use of a minibus to popular destinations such as Blackpool and Lytham. Residents also benefit from weekly group and one-to-one pet therapy sessions, as well as armchair exercise classes led by a physiotherapist, which includes music for the brain. To keep up to date with news from the home, follow us on Facebook and YouTube.