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Glyn Menai Dementia Care Center

Homes that specialise in dementia care are few and far between in North Wales. It is a particularly difficult service to provide well, and more than any other form of long-term care, benefits from an environment that is designed specifically around the needs of the client.

In 2008 Fairways Care opened Glyn Menai to try to change this. Designed in consultation with the Dementia Services Development Centre at The University of Wales, this new home incorporates all the latest thinking in person-centred care. It has featured as an exemplar on the TV news, has an enviable reputation amongst health care professionals in the locality, and was short-listed as the "Best New UK Elderly Care Development" in the London 2009 Pinder's Design awards. In November 2009 it was awarded the title "Care Home of the Year 2009" at the Birmingham Care Show.

The environment has two main aims: to be secure without creating a sense of confinement; and to ensure interest and meaning to all areas. To achieve this it utilises a host of design ideas both hi-tech and simple. For clients though, the result is calming, comfortable and completely unobtrusive.

ITV Wales News - 30th September 2008

In autumn 2008 ITV produced a series of news items looking at how the challenge of dementia is met in Wales. The news team spoke to experts at the University of Bangor who in turn told them about Glyn Menai. The footage below is that news item.

Fairways would like to thank ITV for their kind permission to reproduce this footage.

"State-of-the-art dementia care"

A brand-new, specialist facility offering care to people with dementia

Excerpts from the BBC Radio Wales programme "Alzheimer's: The Ticking Timebomb"

Professor Bob Woods of the Dementia Services Development Centre discusses dementia and how people with the condition can live a good life.

Helen Hughes, Lead Nurse at Glyn Menai talks about the home, her staff and her clients.

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David from Chirk, whose brother is cared for at Glyn Menai

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Private rooms complete with en-suite toilet and shower room.
All staff specially trained with the help of the Dementia Services Development Centre.
A secure but non-restrictive environment.
Specially designed to meet the needs of people with memory loss.

To contact us:
Fairways Nursing Home Trearddur Bay Isle of Anglesey LL65 2UD Tel: 01407 860 930 Fax: 01407 860 637 e-mail: info@fairways.org.uk	Ceris Newydd Nursing Home Treborth Bangor LL57 2RQ Tel: 01248 362 726 Fax: 01248 353 105 e-mail: info@fairways.org.uk	Glyn Menai Dementia Care Centre Treborth Bangor LL57 2RQ Tel: 01248 360 590 Fax: 01248 360 599 e-mail: info@fairways.org.uk