A Home with a Heart.

On arrival you will be introduced to the care team and shown your bedroom where you can unpack your belongings in peace or have help to do so. After the mutual decision has been made for you to stay as a permanent resident you will be allocated a key worker who is then responsible for writing and regularly updating your personalised plan of care.

Ridgegate Home was established as a Registered Charity in 1946. It is a private, not-for-profit quality residence for elderly individuals who either are unable to, or have chosen not to, maintain a home of their own.

The home is administered by a Board of Governors, who have an active role in the running of the home. The Governors and the Registered Manager take great pride in offering a highly professional care service for older people.

Our aim is to offer those in later life the opportunity to live in comfortable surroundings, in a relaxed and secure family-like environment, with the degree of care necessary to enhance the quality of life for each of our residents.

At the heart of everything we do at Ridgegate Home are our core values of privacy, comfort, dignity, independence, choice and rights for our residents.

The underlying philosophy of care in the Home is firstly to recognise the importance of each resident as a unique person and respect him or her as individuals coming from various backgrounds with different cultures and needing different levels of support. Time is also needed to show them that they are cared about, and as far as possible help to come to terms with all their losses (independence, own home and many belongings, loved ones, freedom and autonomy, physical strength, mental skills and abilities, lack of motivation and loss of self-esteem).

Regardless of your length of stay we would want you to consider that from the moment you arrive, Ridgegate is your home. You have the freedom to spend your time as you wish. We have areas where you could socialise and invite your guests for lunch or listen to your choice of music, watch your choice of television or just read.

Do feel free to have a look at the kind words our residents and their family and friends have said about their own experiences of life at Ridgegate Home.

If you have an enquiry and would like to get in contact with us at Ridgegate Home, please use the contact form on the following page to send us an email.

Alternatively, you can speak to our friendly team by phone.