Every carer needs a rest, and deserves one. Take yours here.
Respite care in Newport for someone living with dementia. A room of their own and the same carers every day, for a long weekend, a week or as long as you need.
While you get your breath back.
Caring for someone with dementia at home is a job with no rota. Sooner or later you need an operation, a holiday, a week of sleep, or a week or two to be family again. Respite is that break, spent here.
A weekend gets the same home as a month. They have their own en-suite room. The carers are the same permanent team, with no agency staff, who look after the twenty-eight people who live here for good. The cook, the cinema room, the garden, the salon and the singing on a Tuesday afternoon are all theirs for the length of the stay.
They are one of the household for the stay. Rest is part of caring for them.
Their routine comes with them.
A stay works best when the days here look like the days at home. Before they arrive, we ask what those look like.
- Their mornings, as they are — what time they wake, what they eat, whether the radio is on. The first morning here should feel like the last one at home.
- Their things — their own pillow, their photographs, the cardigan they always reach for. Bring whatever makes the room theirs.
- Their medication, as prescribed — brought with them and given by the team, with their GP kept in the loop.
- You, whenever you like — there are no visiting hours during a respite stay any more than at any other time. Ring, call in, or sleep for a week. All three are fine.
How respite care in Newport is arranged.
Ring, or come and look round first. Most families do. We ask about them, their dementia, what they need help with and what they do not, so the team knows them before they walk in.
Stays can be anything from a long weekend to as long as you need, and can be arranged again when the next break is due. The same room is offered where it can be. If they come back, they come back to people who remember them.
The fee is set, and it covers the room, meals and drinks, personal care day and night, laundry and activities for the length of the stay. There is no notice period. How care is paid for in Wales is on the Advice page.
The questions families ask about a stay.
…they are unsettled on the first day?
It is normal. Someone they have met sits with them, their things are in the room, and the routine you described is followed. Most people find their feet within a day or two.
…they need to come back?
Then they come back, to people who remember them. Many families book the next stay before the current one ends, so the break is in the diary.
…they want to stay?
Some people do, and some families use a respite stay as a first look at the home. If a permanent room is the right next step, it is planned with you, and without a rush.
…I feel guilty leaving them?
“She became part of Aria’s family and Aria became a part of ours.” — Pauline Robinson
Most people do. They are in a house full of company, with the same carers every day, and you are the person who arranged it.
If a stay becomes longer.
If a stay turns into something longer, the residential dementia care page describes the home in full, and the faces would already be familiar. And the home is open for the day as well, for someone who lives at home and is not ready for a stay of any kind: that is day care.
No appointment needed.
Any afternoon suits. No appointment. Bring them if that helps. Ask anything. Stay as long as you like. Nothing has to be decided while you are here.
Come for an afternoon01633 857 715, or info@ariacarehome.com. Fees, funding and your rights are on the Advice page.