Staying fit and active plays an enormous part in feeling good about ourselves and helping us to look after our own wellbeing. Moving in some shape or form is key to our daily activities at Weavers Court. Making time to move is important for many different reasons and we’re excited to share the news that Sophie Dales, from the Leeds United Foundation, will be spending time in Weavers Court to work with our residents.
Sophie will join us at Weavers Court on a regular basis, as our Health and Wellbeing Activator, running inclusive and fun exercise sessions with our residents. Sophie is currently working with other care homes across the Leeds area and is seeing the benefits felt by residents. Sophie will organise light chair-based activities and fun games at Weavers Court.
Sophie says, “I am really looking forward to spending time with the residents and staff at Weavers Court – and, of course, having lots of fun with everyone when I come and meet you all.”
Why Move?
Moving is of benefit to everyone, regardless of your mobility. We use a chair-based approach to ensure that our residents are comfortable and getting the maximum output from their time spent ‘working out’.
Chair exercises are a very smart way to keep fit without putting undue pressure on the body. It also helps our residents to focus on the movements they are making, improving them with practice and feeling the benefit. Movement will increase blood flow around the body, which smooths joint movement and can help to ease aches and pains.
Chair-based exercises can help to build muscle, which helps to create a strong core. It may help our residents to feel more confident about moving about our home and feel steadier in their feet. Even though the mind may have forgotten certain exercises, the muscles retain them. This allows residents to enjoy repetitive exercises that helps to maintain hand-eye coordination and it allows them to take part in a shared activity.
Another important aspect of exercise is the impact it can have on hormonal balance. Exercise releases endorphins which can reduce inflammation and reduce physical pain. In addition to the physical benefits, our exercise programme also has other more intangible benefits. These can include reducing stress and promoting better and healthier sleep patterns. In turn, this can help to lift moods and help in keeping feelings of anxiety and depression at bay.
January 24, 2023
How Care Homes Bridge the Hospital-Social Care Gap
on Homepage Trio, News, Weavers CourtThe NHS is under extreme pressure this winter, with a solution to its problems seemingly out of reach. Yet, when broken down, some issues can be tackled – and this is where care homes can take some of the burden.
Improving patient flow
The media is full of stories of ambulance waits outside hospitals, with no space in A&E for their patients. Inside A&E, many patients treated can go home, but there are others that need to be admitted. With ward beds already full, the system backs up and patients are placed in corridors for hours at a time.
Freeing up beds on wards enables A&E patients to flow through the system, freeing emergency wards. An oversimplified version of what’s happening maybe, but it’s also accurate and undeniable.
Layers of added complications cloud both the issue and solutions; but, at Adore Care, our short-term stays care packages are the antidote to bed-blocking for many patients currently in hospital.
Care Crisis
In early summer 2022, the British Medical Association (BMA) highlighted the ‘ticking time bomb’ that we’re facing in social care. It seems that we’re now feeling it. Social care has endured years of chronic underfunding and is dealing with severe staffing shortages. Set this against the backdrop of a growing elderly population and it means that we’re looking at a gap between the care and support on offer and the number of people that are counting on it.*
Moving the Medically Fit
There’s comes a point at which keeping people in hospital is the wrong course of treatment for them. They are medically fit, having worked through the issue they were admitted with; however, their levels of inactivity during their stay causes loss of muscle function and deconditioning. The longer they stay in hospital, the more prone to infection they become, with Covid, flu and infections, such as C Difficile, posing a continuous threat to them. While they no longer need medical treatment, they do still need lots of care, attention and support. Sorting out funding for the next step can take around six weeks and with the shortage of carers that the BMA noted now hugely apparent, there’s no way an in-home care package can be put in place for people quickly.**
Short-Term Stays
At Weavers Court, our management team has years of experience in the care home sector and bring with them a wealth of knowledge of, not only how to look after and care for residents but also what the families are having to deal with. The patient’s voice is key in taking decisions that concern them, but they’re in a weakened state; not unwell enough for hospital and not well enough to return to life as normal at home. It’s falling to the families to work out how they can plug the gap, but that are also maybe not yet at the stage of considering a care home full-time.
Our short-term stays offer a middle ground, where a patient becomes a resident and moves away from the hospital to receive targeted care and attention that’s tailored to their exact needs. We’ll work with people to help them regain their strength and spirit, with nutritious meals and activities that they can get engaged in.
Safety In Numbers
While social care shortages may be endemic across the system, our care home is fully staffed. We also understand that this is a short-term arrangement and one that is often being considered at high speed and under stressful conditions. In a situation that is so much about numbers – waiting figures, numbers of beds, weeks and months in hospital – we’ve worked hard on our offer to help those considering short-term stay, but not only offering a reduced weekly fee of £1,100, down from £1,295 but a package that is all-inclusive with no billable extras.
We’re here to help please call us on 0113 465 3000 to discuss your requirements and get things moving.
**https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tears-nhs-crumbles-25934893
Life at Weavers Court can be busy and engaging – sometimes, there’s something fabulous to get involved in all day long. It’s unsurprising that some of our residents have fallen in love with our new In-Room Dining Experience. This may sound like a very grand way to dine, but it simply means that our residents can opt to eat their meals in their room.
Our food is so good, it has to be enjoyed in peace and quiet from time to time!
Delightful Room Service
Room Service is something that we are delighted to offer our residents and – as a newly opened care home – we’re able to work with our residents and find out what they would like us to do for them.
As a purpose-built luxury care home within easy reach of Leeds, our dedication to providing healthy and nutritious food that delights and sustains our residents is one of our core drivers. We know how much our residents love and look forward to dining with us. While we can put part of that down to our beautiful dining room, we know that it is the care and attention lavished on our menus from our head chef, Lewis, and his team that really makes a difference.
Dining Experience
Lewis develops his menus to bring together the basics of nutrition, making sure that all needs are catered for and that our residents can count on a balanced diet. However, Lewis and his team ensure that they include many different tastes to please many different people, but they will always add those finishing touches that make every meal so special. Nothing is too much trouble at Weavers Court and that is certainly true of our catering team.
While our friendly and warm dining room is always on offer, those who wish to take up room service will have their meals brought up to them. When delivering room service meals, our staff will always take a moment to check in with our residents and to have a quick chat and let them know what’s on the menu.
With no attention to detail spared, our residents can enjoy first class meals as standard, with one recent meal especially well received. Lewis’s chicken and leek pie was flavoursome and cooked to perfection, enrobed in a light crust pastry that melts in the mouth. With soft mashed potato and two vegetables – pea and parsnips – Lewis complimented the dish with gravy. Not one to go without a dash of garnish, Lewis’s sliced orange baked in garlic and honey truly transformed what might be pie and mash dish elsewhere to a fine dining experience at Weaver’s Court.
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With our Leeds care home, Weavers Court, now open, residents are steadily joining us with ten lovely people already living with us and two set to join our home community after Christmas. Weavers Court, Adore Care’s brand-new purpose-built luxury care home in the village of Rawdon, is set to be filled with joy and laughter this festive season, with a long list of activities already in full swing.
Elf and Happiness
Our residents are making the most of the Christmas season and have – along with staff, friends and family – already enjoyed their first charity day. Elf Day allowed us all to become more “elf-aware” and we raised £50 for Alzheimer’s charities. There were plenty of laughs on our Elf Day but, as ever, our team made sure that elf and safety was paramount!
The team was thrilled to welcome our first resident in mid-November, with Maureen’s arrival. Brenda also joined us on the same day and both residents were able to dive into our activities programme, with Autumn Spice Cake Baking top of the list.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
With more residents joining us in December, we have also been able to launch our December activities, which wrap up the best of the Christmas season. A wonderful tradition that we have been delighted to introduce to Weavers Court is our Christingle making session, where our residents transformed oranges into beacons of light, with tantalising sweeties added. We then lit these to mark the period between Advent and Candlemas and it set the scene for some fabulous festive activities.
We know how to have fun at Weaver Court and we certainly did on the day of our Mulled Wine Masterclass. Getting the balance of sweet, spice and sharp just right is a skill in itself and our residents were able to play around with their flavours until they got their mix just right. One of our residents David, was formerly a wine and spirits manager so was in his element dispensing advice! Our warm mulled wine certainly warmed all of our cockles.
We complemented our mulled wine making with our mince pie baking session. This is a fabulous way to make sure that our residents can continue with their own traditions, with some of our residents having made mince pies for many decades at home. While we may have made a healthy stack of rich and buttery pastry pies, bursting with tasty and flavoursome mincemeat, our pies didn’t last long and were gone all too soon! Extras being baked as we write!
Crafty!
While Christmas is a time for eating lots of goodies, we also really love to get involved in arts and crafts. To help us make the most of this time of year, we launched our Christmas Craft Club. This allows our residents to get busy making garlands and decorations to bring colour and life to Weavers Court. If you pop in to visit us, you may well see the handicrafts of our Christmas Craft Club all over our home.
Our residents have also perfected the art of making Christmas wreaths, using festive greenery to bring the outdoors in. The room was filled with the scent of pine and our wreaths were finished and hung.
Our facilities at Weavers Court are second to none and this was certainly the case when we help our first Weavers Court Pub Quiz in our Sky Bar. It was an evening of fun and laughter – and a little bit of competition – as our residents answered some very tricky questions to find out who our first quiz champion would be. We’ll be running many more quizzes in the new year, so there will be plenty of challengers for our winner.
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November 17, 2022
Weavers Court Celebrates Launch with Open Weekend
on Homepage Trio, News, Weavers CourtWeavers Court Event a Resounding Success for New Care Home
The newly-opened Weavers Court Leeds Care Home, in the beautiful Green Lane Mills development at Rawdon, threw open its doors last weekend to welcome both its local community and prospective residents. The weekend was the first opportunity for people to explore the new purpose-built care home for themselves. Welcomed by owners, Adore Care Group, and a team of dedicated Weavers Court staff, locals, prospective residents and their families joined together over the weekend to see the gorgeous luxury care home for themselves. Everyone was able to linger, meeting and talking to each other over an endless selection of cakes, scones and savoury light bites. It was a wonderful weekend-long event, with new friendships forged and connections made.
General Manager, Mariyam Jogi, said “We have had a tremendous response to our event over the weekend, with more than 100 people visiting our newly-opened home!”
Mariyam added, “I am delighted that we have several rooms reserved already, with almost twenty prospective residents’ assessments to carry out over the next few weeks. Many of our prospective residents are currently living in their own home, but they are actively seeking a safe, warm and friendly care home to come and live in.”
Welcome to Weavers Court
Weavers Court, the brand-new care home from Adore Care Homes, has now opened its doors. Set to employ over 60 care and support staff from the local area, Weavers Court has many state of the art features including, electronic care plan and medication systems, solar heating, air conditioning and under floor heating from ground source heat pumps.
During the Open Weekend, visitors were wowed by the facilities of Weavers Court, including its own in-home cinema, the country-style tea room and elegant library. The Sky Bar proved to be quite a talking point, with its wonderful décor and long range views.
Weavers Court’s 66 suites each come with full wet rooms, electronically-adjustable profile beds, fitted furniture, mini-fridges and other stylish and useful finishing touches. Tailored to meet residents’ needs, Weavers Court can also count on a high staff-to-resident ratio.
Dawn Barrie, Weavers Court Care Manager said, “I am delighted with the level of interest shown in Weavers Court and was thrilled to meet so many people over the course of our Open Weekend. Our staff, who have been with us since the beginning of October, are all fully trained, many with previous experience in the sector. Our whole care and support team are very much looking forward to welcoming the first residents into Weavers Court.”
Mariyam Jogi added, “We are not just a luxury care home; our people are passionate and committed to looking after our residents in the most fun, compassionate and caring way possible. Our provider, Adore Care Homes, has invested in modern electronic care planning systems and offers an all-inclusive package, where there are no extra charges for things, like newspapers, chiropody, hairdressing and activities, that are so integral to everyday living. We ensure that everything is included in one single fee so that our residents can love living with us.”
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November 17, 2022
Weavers Court Officially Opened by the Lord Mayor of Leeds
on Homepage Trio, News, Weavers CourtCare Home Opening Highlights Partnership Working
Weavers Court, a brand-new care home in Leeds from the Adore Care Group, was delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Robert Gettings MBE JP to declare the home officially open. The care home, located in Yeadon, near Rawdon, was officially opened on Thursday 3 November, with operators, Adore Care Homes, and many health and social care professionals attending the event.
Andrew Long, of operator Adore Care Homes, introduced the mayor and thanked LNT Care Developments, the developer, for delivering this extremely high standard luxury care home.
Andrew commented, “This muti-million-pound development showcases the very best of Leeds and Yorkshire-based businesses.” He added, “With green energy technology that is already well ahead of Government targets, an integral part of our new home, Weavers Court offers a safe and secure environment of the highest standards for elderly people to live in.”
Health and social care professionals, including Dr Naylor of Aireborough Surgery, joined with other guests involved in the development of Weavers Court to mark the home’s formal opening.
Located in the beautiful Green Lane Mills development of Yeadon, within easy reach of both Leeds and Bradford, Weavers Court is the first Adore Care home to open. Opening the home officially, the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Gettings said that he had been given detailed information about the home in advance of his visit, but nothing had prepared him for how good the home is, adding, “I am delighted to be opening this beautiful home in the Guiseley and Rawdon Ward of North Leeds. It is a wonderful facility and I am impressed by the attention to detail and quality of accommodation that it is on offer.”
Cutting the ribbon, the Lord Mayor declared the home officially open, wistfully adding that as, “We all get older, it is only right that elderly people in need of care have the choice to live in a place like Weavers Court.”
Mariyam Jogi, Weavers Court General Manager, said, “We have been made so welcome in Rawdon and Yeadon as we have prepared to open the home; not only by the many businesses and shops and offices in the area, but also by our Health and Social Care colleagues. We believe that this united approach to health and social care proves once again that, at grassroots level, true cooperation exists to demonstrate that the public and private sector can work together.”
Weavers Court has 66 en-suite rooms and is purpose built to meet the residents’ needs. A fabulous balance of both private, personal space and bright, comforting community areas; the home is developed around the needs and likes of residents. Facilities within the home include a cinema room, library, tea room, a hair and beauty salon and a cafe bar.
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Hi, I am Nicola Lomas and I have worked in care for 7 years starting as a care assistant and progressing to my current position of Deputy Manager and have recently passed my Level 5 in Care Management and Leadership.
I love my job and feel honoured to be able to be part of the residents and families lives. Each day is different, and the residents constantly surprise me, keep me on my toes and make me smile on daily basis.
I’m looking forward to my new role at Weavers Court and working with a team that shares the same values as myself and are passionate about care, respect, dignity, kindness, teamwork, and job satisfaction.
I have four children – 2 boys and 2 girls and love meals out as well as nights in with a takeaway and a bit of telly. I also enjoy going to watch live music.
We recently held our recruitment assessment days at the Greenacres Hall, in Rawdon, for our brand new, luxury care home, Weavers Court, which is set to open this October.
We were particularly pleased with the excellent turn out, quality of candidates, enthusiasm and commitment displayed. It also gave us an opportunity for us to go through the roles at Weavers Court Care Home in more detail.
Both days were lively and interactive with intuitive ice breakers and solid care based scenario assessments, which were delivered by our Quality Care Director, General Manager, Care Manager and newly appointed Deputy Manager who has just achieved her NVQ Level 5.
We are still recruiting for a range of different roles so make sure to check out adorecarehomes.co.uk or call us on 0113 465 3000.
Weavers Court, our Leeds Care Home situated in the beautiful new Green Lane Mills development at Yeadon has surprisingly welcomed two new residents even before the home is complete!
Settling on an area of sheltered scaffolding are two nesting pigeons who have made themselves’ quite at home!
Bob McGuigan, LNT Care Developments Site Manager at Weavers Court said “As nesting birds they are protected and more than welcome to settle here during their nesting season. The lads have been careful to work around them. All part of being Considerate Constructors!”
The brooding pair have not yet been named but Dawn Barrie, Care Manager of the soon to be opened new home said “Pigeons are monogamous and breed for several seasons as long as both birds of a pair live” adding, “We hope to see other couples settling in at Weavers Court when the doors open officially in October!”
Pigeon Fun Facts
- Pigeons have the ability to see about 26 miles.
- When fully feather, adult pigeons have around 10,000 feathers.
- There are approximately 400 million pigeons in the world.
Average flight speed of pigeons 60 – 77.6 miles per hour. Fastest speed just over 90 miles per hour (racing pigeon).