Enter and View: Oak Meadows Care Home, Taunton
Our report following a visit to Oak Meadows in Taunton, a care home that was adapted some years ago from an original military building on the site. The home specialises in the care of older people living with dementia.
The home is able to care for up to 86 residents. On the date of the visit there were 61 residents living in the home.
Recommendations
- Consider developing a group of external volunteer visitors for those residents who have no visitors.
- Healthwatch supports the home’s plan for a quiet spiritual/contemplative area.
- Consider ways of making Willow Unit less clinical and more homely, e.g. with the addition of clocks and calendars. Consider an information booklet about the home and services to be given to residents and their relatives on arrival or soon afterwards.
- Sutherland Specialist Dementia Unit – it may be helpful to consider an association of individual residents to their bedrooms, e.g. a photo, a colour or related item on the door.
Read our report
If you need this report in a different format, please email info@healthwatchsomerset.co.uk or call 0800 999 1286.
File download
Enter and View report: Oak Meadows Care Home, Taunton
