Founded on a person-centred approach to care, Cherrybrook Care Home champions the latest dementia research taking inspiration from the city’s academic excellence forged by the late Bradford University professor, Thomas Kitwood.
All of our team under-go extensive training to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge needed to care for adults living with dementia using the latest knowledge and research to help people feel comfortable, calm and safe.
The home is designed to feel like a home. We provide therapies backed by research to be proven to help people feel calm and safe and foster an approach to allow adults to retain a sense of independence and to be treated with the respect someone with a lifetime of history deserves.
Doll therapy for example is one of many strategies we will use as it is a proven technique to help ease anxieties of someone with dementia. Holding a doll can be very soothing and often takes people back to a time when they had young children of their own, or were around babies, which invokes feelings of content, calm and happiness. As well as holding a doll, giving residents the chance to care for a doll can give people a sense of purpose which impacts their energy levels and mood.
Martin Deakin, Manager at Cherrybrook says, “it is essential for me and all of the team at Cherrybrook that an adult with dementia is treated with respect at all times. From encouraging people to be involved in decisions about when to get dressed and what to wear, to where they want to be in the day and what they would like to get involved with. We get to know people and are here to support and to try and be a few steps ahead to help ensure people do not get to a point of distress through confusion.”
