Honey Lane Care Home
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Honey Lane
Waltham Abbey
Essex
EN9 3BA
| Care Type | Care Home |
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| Care Category | Residential | Dementia | Respite |
| Availability | Yes |
| Regulator's Rating | Good |
Meet The Manager
Angie Sacks is Home Manager at Honey Lane Care Home.
Our Home Manager Angie joined the Carebase family at Honey Lane in 2013. Showing a natural flair for care, she quickly progressed to the role of Senior before moving in 2015 to our sister home, 1 Sewardstone Close, which cares for adults with an acquired brain injury. Over the course of the next three years, she was promoted from a Team Leader to the home’s Head of Care, working closely with multidisciplinary teams including speech and language therapists and psychologists. Angie returned to Honey Lane in February 2022 as Deputy Manager.
Speaking about her role at Honey Lane, Angie said: “We support residents to live a life which is meaningful to them and one where they are able to spend their time doing the things they love. It’s a privilege to get to know our residents and nothing makes me happier than seeing them content and well looked-after.”
At Honey Lane, we provide award-winning specialist residential dementia care in a loving, and homely environment.
Our highly skilled and experienced team ensures that residents live well with dementia and achieve a high quality of life by receiving exceptional levels of personalised care, stimulation and social interaction that improves overall wellbeing.
The fun and vibrant atmosphere at Honey Lane is truly unlike any other care home and our residents are provided with many and varied ways to spend their days that are purposeful and meaningful to them.
We won the Making a Difference category at the Essex Care Awards 2023, reflecting our creative, person-centred 1-2-1 and group lifestyle activities, make a wish initiative, popular minibus outings and innovative partnerships, that together ensure meaningful connections are made and sustained.
And, with soothing lighting, relaxing aromatherapy scents, tailored hand massages and sound therapy, our home’s Abbey lounge and bedrooms are transformed every day into an oasis of calm where our trained team bring comfort and pleasure to residents throughout our multi-sensory Namaste Care sessions.
Honey Lane is laid out on one floor enabling residents to move easily and safely around the home with direct access to the beautiful enclosed courtyard garden. The tranquil space includes a water feature and kitchen garden where residents are able to get involved in a variety of gardening activities or sit and pet Dottie, our therapy cat.
We appreciate that many families cope alone for some time before considering a long-term care option. Our day care and respite services provide an opportunity for family carers to have a break whilst their loved one gets to experience all that Honey Lane has to offer.
Our team receives comprehensive training, professional development and support to deliver the high standards of dementia care residents and families deserve. Families know their loved ones are being cared for by a trusted and reputable provider, with love and compassion at the forefront of all we do.
| Care Options | We Can Provide |
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| Support For | Companionship, Convalescence, Daily Respite Care, Emergency Care, End of Life, Palliative, Personal care, Physiotherapy, Support for Couples. |
| Disability Support | Bed Bound, Hearing Impairment, Physical Disability, Physically Frail, Requires Hoist , Speech Impairment, Visual Impairment, Walking Frame, Wheel Chair Bound. |
| Medication | By Mouth, Change Catheter, Electronic Medication Management, Injection, Suppository. |
| Nursing Specialisms | Aids, Cancer, Crohns, Crohn's Disease, Depression, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Heart Disease, Korsakoff, Liver Disease, Lung Disease, Pain Management, Parkinson's Disease, Stroke. |
| Type Of Dementia | Mild Dementia, Moderate Dementia, Severe Dementia (EMI). |
| Dementia Behaviour | Agitation / Restlessness, Challenging Behaviour, Disrupted Sleep Patterns, Mild Forgetfulness, Wandering . |
| Dementia Specialisms | Alzheimer's, Frontotemporal, Lewy Body, Mixed Dementias, Picks Disease, Vascular Dementia. |
| Respite Care | Yes |
Autumna has invited care providers to evidence the infection control measures they are carrying out, above and beyond those laid out by the government, in order to keep residents, staff and visitors safe.
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Independent Assessments | We have been independently assessed in our approach to infection control. |
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Infection Control Training | Our staff are trained to use measures which prevent and control infections. |
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Regulatory Assessment | We have been assessed by the care regulator in our approach to infection control. |
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Infection control and the safety of both residents and staff often requires quarantine measures and the isolation of care home residents. To test, monitor and allow residents to communicate with relatives, the prevalence of room-level connectivity within the home is becoming increasingly relevant. Wireless Internet access (WiFi) Yes, our care home has WiFi in all our resident’s rooms. Mobile Phone Network Coverage (mobile “signal”) Yes, our care home has mobile phone signal in all our resident’s rooms. Telephone for external calling Yes, our care home provides a telephone in all our resident’s rooms. |
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We are on Facebook| Minimum Age |
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| 60 |
| LGBTQ Welcome |
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| Our Building and Facilities |
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In addition to offering the highest level of quality care, Honey Lane Care Home has exceptional facilities that make life enjoyable and engaging for all residents, whatever their hobbies and personal preferences. |
| Is Our Home Purpose Built |
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| Yes |
| How Many Floors We Have |
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| Who Owns Our Building |
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| Private |
| Communal Rooms |
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| Dining Rooms, Sitting Rooms, TV Lounges. |
| What Else Do We Provide |
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| Assisted Bathroom, Beauty Salon, Cinema, Hairdressers, Minibus, Physiotherapy, Smoking Area, Therapy Room. |
| Our Garden |
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| Communal Garden, Communal Patio, Greenhouse, Private Garden(s), Seating, Secure Garden, Sensory Garden, Vegetable Plot, Wheelchair Friendly Access. |
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Providing the perfect place to relax, our comfortable bedrooms are as individual as our residents and can be personalised with small items of furniture, photographs and belongings; ensuring they feel familiar and homely. |
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| Number Of Rooms | 41 |
| Number Of Ensuite Rooms | 14 |
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| Single Room. |
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| Furnished. |
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| Internet Access, Telephone Point. |
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| Funding Types | |
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| Local Authority | Essex |
| Region | East |
| We Accept Self-Funding Clients | Yes |
| We Accept Local Authority Funding | No |
| We Accept NHS Continuing Healthcare | Yes |
| We Accept Local Authority funding with a Third Party Top-Up | Yes |
Choice Dining is a food-focused accreditation designed to give care-seekers like yourself the ability to consider and compare the dining experience within different care settings.
To be awarded the Choice Dining badge, a care home will have committed to delivering exceptional dining experiences with a strong focus on preference, individuality, hygiene and the environment. You can explore the specifics of all participating homes in the tab below to learn more about the food on offer, how it is served and presented and what they’re doing to cater for your personal taste. Find out more about Choice Dining.
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| Activities Are So Important |
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PROVIDING MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES FOR OUR ELDERLY RESIDENTSOur residents’ ongoing health and wellbeing is extremely important to us and we recognise that keeping active, both mentally and physically, whilst maintaining a sense of purpose and meaning are key to individuals’ happiness, contentment and joy. In partnership with our residents and those closest to them, our dedicated lifestyle team develops a varied programme of meaningful activities, events and celebrations which are personalised to individuals’ likes, dislikes, abilities and care needs as well as aspirations and dreams for the future. Our whole team supports our residents to rekindle interests and hobbies, whilst also gently encouraging them to try new things they might enjoy, either as part of a group of friends, on a 1-2-1 basis and in their own room, if they prefer. MAINTAINING AN ACTIVE BODY AND MINDRegular opportunities to exercise bring fun and laughter, whilst giving everyone the opportunity to stay as active as they’re personally able to. For some, that may be through seated exercises from the comfort of their own chair and movement to music classes whilst, for others, it’s boxercise with our trainer, Curtis. To keep our minds active, we host regular reminiscence sessions and enjoy many puzzles and games. Arts and crafts are also a popular past-time, painting, making cards, décolletage – anything to get our creative juices flowing. Also, key to supporting health and wellbeing are our horticultural-themed activities in our care home, where the green-fingered amongst us tend to our beautiful gardens in the great outdoors, enjoy pottering in the greenhouse, or doing a spot of flower arranging. |
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| 1 to 1 Activities, Bingo, Birthday Celebrations, Board Games, Cooking, Crafts, Dancing, Excursions, Gardening, Knitting / Embroidery, Music Entertainment, Painting, Quiz Games, Reminiscence, Singing, Visiting Entertainment, Word Games. |
| Activities Outside Our Home |
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| Garden Centre, Local Tourist Attractions, Pub. |
Honey Lane
Waltham Abbey
Essex
EN9 3BA
Regulator: CQC
| Current Ratings | |
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| Overall | Good |
| Safe | Requires Improvement |
| Well Led | Good |
| Caring | Good |
| Responsive | Good |
| Effective | Good |
| Inspection Reports | |
| Last inspected | 15th February 2022 |
| Last rated | 18th March 2022 |
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| Registration Date | 19th January 2011 |
| Service Provider | Towertrend Limited, EN9 3BA |
Honey Lane Care Home Care Home - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)
| Transport |
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| Train Station nearby. |
| Places of Worship |
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| Anglican Church. |
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| Hospital, Shops. |
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