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Avery were delighted to welcome South Lodge, our first Leicester care home, its residents and staff into the Avery family of care homes in April 2018.
Situated just off the London Road, which joins the city of Leicester with Market Harborough, in the leafy conservation area of Stoneygate, South Lodge’s wonderful position means our community is within the easy reach of the shops, churches and the city centre.
Our Leicester care home offers exceptional 24 hour residential and nursing care for both individuals and couples and has outstanding facilities and services, all set within our comfortable, supportive care community. South Lodge has a choice of 99 beautiful private apartments that vary from studios through to one and two bedrooms suites all with their own wet room style bathroom and some with kitchenettes ensuring our residents can remain as independent as they wish.
We also offer a separate dementia care suite comprising of 17 suites, each with an en-suite wet room. Comfortable, open plan naturally lit and staffed by specially trained staff, it offers unique support for those residents requiring specialist dementia care giving each and every resident the unique support they may need.
Ours is a supportive, companionable community. We use technology to support our residents to connect with family near and far, and social engagements, as well as mental and physical activity to keep us all active and in the best of spirits.
To discuss your next move, whether it is some advice you are after or perhaps you would just like to visit and chat with some of our residents, then call Penny Tilley our Manager on 0116 274 8000. Also feel free to visit our dedicated Facebook page to see a little of what we get up to everyday.
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Our residents have their say at South Lodge with the monthly residents meeting to decide on the activities they wish to see in the upcoming months.
Our gardening club with green house and raised flower beds offer those with green fingers the chance to still continue their hobby whilst our dedicated activities team offer a varied program. These include outings to local places of interest across Leicestershire, visiting speakers and entertainers, pottery, art, one to one activities and garden walks in our gorgeous gardens which includes a woodland walk.
A local nursery school visit on a monthly basis and enjoy a morning in our activities room whereby children and residents alike play games, quizzes and even the occasional visit from Alfie the miniature pony! We are a supportive and companionable Leicester care home. We also host regular Parkinson’s group meetings with the local Parkinson’s Society and Gents Lunch Club whereby our male residents enjoy a pie and pint!
Our care home residents always have choice when dining experience, family are welcome to join us in dinning in our beautifully designed restaurant, in their own apartments or our bistro for a more casual experience. We have a number of quiet cosy lounges, a bistro café which is ideal for that cup of coffee with friends or guests, a well-equipped library reading area, a hair salon, a therapy room and spa.
All our food is locally sourced from across Leicestershire and we produce a menu each week so you can plan your meals. If there is nothing that grabs your fancy on any day the we will be sure to make something for you that hits the mark. Our meals are designed to be nutritious and we acknowledge that eating is a big part of care home life. We often incorporate themed meals into our dining and you can always count on our chef team to keep our cafe well stocked with freshly baked biscuits and cakes.
Here is the latest update on how we are managing the coronavirus pandemic. We continue to see reassuring outcomes for the testing results, and we are pleased to report that across the Avery group we are now virtually virus-free for both staff and residents. Despite the media portrayal of the sector, our care homes are…
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Welcome to the July issue of Avery Life, now a monthly update of all the latest from Avery and our leading care homes. Read about the success of our introduction of safe garden visits, enabling families to visit their loved ones for the first time in weeks, and a tale of enduring love from Newcross…
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Welcome to Issue 6 of our new fortnightly newsletter, Avery Life. This edition, we’ve got stories from around our communities including outdoor fun with cocktail parties, and generous donations from both local and national supporters of the fine work our homes are doing during challenging times. For all this and more, click here to download Avery…
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Music plays a central role in supporting residents to live well in many care homes, and is a significant feature in most well-being and activity programmes, ranging from informal sing-a-longs and choirs within a care home to visiting entertainers. The value of utilising music in a more personalised way is now widely recognised as a…
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Avery’s Northern Regional Manager, Maria Booth, made a clean break from her normal hairstyle by having her head completely shaved in late May. For mutual support, Maria undertook this hair-raising task with good friend Janet Burgin, both conscious that their own ‘natural highlights’ were not under control due to salons being closed in the lockdown.…
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In an exciting move for both care home residents and their families and friends, Avery Healthcare has announced a way forward to bring everyone together again after the recent enforced separation. It’s a ray of sunshine for those desperate to see their loved ones. Mass testing throughout the Avery homes is drawing very encouraging results…
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A warm welcome to Issue 5 of Avery Life, keeping you updated fortnightly with all the top news from our wonderful care home communities, showing the fun our residents are having thanks to our dedicated and hard-working staff. This edition, you can read about our lucky residents who continue to be pampered in our salons,…
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Avery Healthcare has always made the health and safety of our residents and staff a priority, and the Covid-19 pandemic has required us to raise our exacting standards to even higher levels. That is why we are taking the innovative step to introduce a cleaning system into our care homes that is already proven to…
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Welcome to Issue 4 of Avery Life, keeping you updated every fortnight with how quickly things are changing in the world that we now live in. We know that this new format newsletter is looked forward to by residents, and to add to the fun we are introducing a ‘Spot The Mistake’ feature. This issue…
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I am writing to provide you with a further update on where we are within the current coronavirus pandemic. Family visiting None of us anticipated the length of time we would be unable to see our family and friends, so I am hopeful that The Prime Minister will relax some of the rules very soon.…
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Observing social distancing whilst maintaining a sense of normal life during the current pandemic is a challenge for all of our staff, and particularly those who care for residents in our memory care suites. Due to memory problems and other cognitive difficulties, it is almost impossible for residents living with dementia to process and understand…
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Welcome to the third edition of our fortnightly newsletter, Avery Life! This being a fortnightly publication to share our good news with you, it seems that as soon as one is published that we’re working on the next! This issue features how our staff and residents celebrated VE day, what Avery did to commemorate International…
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South Lodge Care Home were delighted to present signed Leicester City fan mail to overjoyed residents during lockdown. The Premier League recently met with the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to discuss, “Project restart”, seeing the return of live professional football albeit “behind closed doors” to our screens from the 12th June. During the Coronavirus pandemic,…
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Clayton Manor Care Home in Congleton recently received a letter of praise from Nichola Thompson, Director of Commissioning for Cheshire East County Council, thanking them for their dedication and commitment to the well-being of their residents during the Coronavirus pandemic. Home Manager, Debbie Marshall, was delighted. She said, “The team and I were really pleased…
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The staff at Knowle Gate Care Home in Solihull certainly know it all, in all categories! They’re thrilled that after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) made an unannounced inspection, they have rated the care home as Good In All Categories. The CQC report featured many great quotes from staff and residents about the quality of…
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Acorn Lodge Care Home in Nuneaton were thrilled to receive a letter of gratitude from Monica Fogarty, the Chief Executive of Warwickshire County Council, thanking them for their great efforts during the Coronavirus pandemic and for going “above and beyond” in the way that care has been continued to be given in this increasingly challenging…
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Scholars Mews Care Home in Stratford-upon-Avon were delighted to receive a letter of gratitude from the Chief Executive of Warwickshire County Council, thanking them for their great efforts during the pandemic crisis and for going “above and beyond” in the way that care has been continued to be given in this exceptionally challenging time. Sharon…
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When Billy, who lives with dementia, was admitted to hospital from Highcliffe Care Home in Sunderland, he found it difficult to understand the need for social distancing, and other precautions that were in place, including staff wearing PPE. The hospital team reported to staff at Highcliffe that Billy had become very distressed, which was totally…
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“I feel safe, they [staff] are very observant here, and you are looked after.” “The food is excellent, there’s a good menu and plenty of choices, and if you don’t like what’s on the menu, you can ask for something else.” “The carers are just so kind and lovely, they really do care about us…
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We saved the best till last this week, with a wonderful personal message from pop royalty, Nicky Stevens, to all our resident and staff. Nicky was part of chart-topping pop quartet The Brotherhood Of Man, who won Eurovision in 1976 with Save All Your Kisses For Me. In her special message to all the residents…
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The World Health Organisation has bestowed 2020 as International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, which coincides with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, widely considered as the founder of modern nursing, on 12th May. A date of significant meaning in the nursing profession, 12th May is also designated International Nurses Day,…
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We’ve been overwhelmed with messages of support and thanks for our critical frontline care staff at Highcliffe Care Home in Sunderland in recent weeks. Last week, we received supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), games and stationery to add to our stocks, from Taylor Wimpey by way of support and appreciation for the amazing work…
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Avery was ready for the onset of COVID-19, in its new hygiene protocols, provision of PPE, and also in the delivery of its high-quality dining for the residents. Prompt purchasing of additional stocks and planning with its suppliers ensured that our residents would continue to enjoy the best in dining we could provide. Contingencies were…
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Avery’s Northern Regional Manager, Maria Booth, is looking to make a clean break from her old hairstyle by having her head completely shaved on the 23rd of May. The bald facts of the matter are that she is raising money for the Care Workers’ Charity, along with close friend Janet Burgin, who is also having…
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