With the building of new homes comes the chance for developers and providers to offer new features that can improve the quality of day to day living for elderly residents.
At J. & W. Lowry we always focus on the end users at the earliest design stages. This allows us to be confident that our developments will provide the best possible facilities for future residents - including restaurants, cafes, leisure facilities and outdoor spaces.
There are numerous features that can enhance the care home experience for elderly users and many of them can be installed easily and without extensive costs. The benefits can be enjoyed almost immediately and have long lasting effects on both physical and mental wellbeing.
Top 3 luxury care home features
Obviously there are many standard features that can improve care home living significantly. These can include things like assistive technologies, wide corridors and walkways and ample amounts of natural daylight within the building.
For a more luxury care home experience, let’s look at 3 top features which J. & W. Lowry try to incorporate within our developments.
1. Cinema Rooms
For elderly residents, watching a small TV in their room for hours at a time can be lonely and boring. This is a scene that is incredibly common within care homes and can be detrimental to both physical and mental health with minimal movement or interaction with other people.
By installing a cinema room within an elderly care home, you immediately create a hub where residents can go to congregate with other people with a common focus. Showing classic or modern films or sports fixtures such as Wimbledon Tennis or World Cup football can help to stimulate residents and create a fantastic community atmosphere.
2. Fitness and Wellness Suites
Most elderly care home residents will require some form of exercise or physical therapy. Providing a specially adapted fitness and wellness suite allows residents to not only maintain but also dramatically improve their levels of physical health. Gentle exercises classes can be held using appropriate equipment or residents can use the suites themselves.
By creating an area where physical activity is encouraged and assistance is on offer, residents will be much more motivated to engage with fitness and physical health. A fitness suite also offers yet another community space and lessens the time that residents will spend alone in their rooms.
3. External Terraces and Gardens
Outdoor space has never been so crucial for elderly care home residents. With the Covid 19 pandemic it became absolutely essential for visitors to meet with loved ones in open spaces with as much fresh air as possible.
Prior to the pandemic however it has always been clear that there are multiple benefits to offering elderly care home residents exposure to the outdoors. From simply being able to sit on a balcony in the sunshine whilst they have a cup of tea, to providing gardens that they can walk in with family who visit - the effects on mental, emotional and physical wellbeing can not be denied.
Our values
At J. & W. Lowry we are a family run business who care about the future. We want to meet the needs of today but we always seek to work sustainably and pride ourselves on our thoughtful design and consideration of our end users.
Find out more about our developments and examples of our work here and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like to work together by calling +44 7361 590822, emailing info@jwlowry.co.uk or filling out the form on our website.