Description:
Hankham Lodge
and permanent residential care in a superb country setting close to
Eastbourne on the Sussex coast. Hankham Lodge is owned and run day-to-day by husband and wife team Peter and
Svetlana Sims who live on the premises. Aside from the Owner/Managers the daily
care programme of Hankham Lodge is delivered by a staff team of deputy manager,
senior care assistants, care assistants, cooks and housekeeper/cleaners. Hankham Lodge has a friendly homely atmosphere caring for both men and women
who can no longer manage all the rigorous requirements that independent daily life
brings. Our location and care standards are regarded as the very best in this locality –
see our testimonials and recommendations. At Hankham Lodge we do not provide long term nursing care or specialised advanced
dementia care. We specialise in providing a safe comfortable and stimulating
environment for older people to maintain a good quality of life in their later years.
things we need to know. We have to make an initial assessment of the care a
prospective resident requires, the type of social activities/hobbies they enjoy,
what religious needs they may have. Also we make available to them what they
can expect from us, by way of our admission procedure/meeting and residents
welcome pack.
Wherever possible, it should be the result of an individual’s own informed decision but this may not always
be the case. Some come direct from hospital because a decision to discharge the patient into a supported
environment where care is available has been made on the basis of assessment. Some may come in as the
result of decisions made by their relatives or as a result of a crisis. The clinical and other care needs of
individuals will vary substantially. In many cases, residents will have been assessed by their local authority
social services in consultation with medical and nursing colleagues as requiring residential home care and
some of them will be paid for in part by the local authority under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
Others will be paying for themselves.
A prospective resident is likely to be anxious that the decision is the correct one, however it was arrived
at. Coming into Hankham Lodge may mean a move away from a familiar area, away from neighbours and
friends. It almost certainly means a move into smaller accommodation and the giving up of many personal
possessions. Moving into residential care may be occurring at a time of other significant change in the
person’s life of crisis or emergency. That change may be due to the loss of a partner or carer with all the
accompanying grief which that will entail. To be moving into care can itself sometimes feel like a bereavement.
Choice
Individuals should make their own informed decision to come into Hankham Lodge. Other non-residential
options should have been considered for example, packages of care organised after local authority
assessment by a care manager which enable both health and social care services to be delivered in the
individual’s own home.