We undertook a pioneering approach to significantly reduce the number of falls amongst older residents. Holmes House, located on Kenilworth Road in Wigston, was asked to take part in a pilot by Leicestershire County Council, alongside two other care homes in the area. The project involved introducing devices and systems to help a person maintain their safety and wellbeing. Some of the technologies [...]

We are pleased to announce that PrimeLife has been given a ‘Top 20 Recommended Care Home Group’ award by Carehome.co.uk. Every day, visitors and residents fill in review cards that let us know how well we’re doing, and these reviews are counted and moderated by the leading UK Care Home website, Carehome.co.uk. The 2016 Carehome.co.uk awards reveal that [...]

Over the last few weeks our Leicestershire homes have been backing the blues of Leicester City Football Club in their efforts to become Premier League Champions. It’s been an exciting few weeks where both staff and residents have been watching games together and dressing up in blue to show their support. One resident at Holmes House, John ‘Ian’ King, aged [...]

PrimeLife prides itself on the care, support and services it provides for people with learning disabilities. We want to go the extra mile, above and beyond what’s expected elsewhere in the industry, and aim to promote inclusion, independence and choice. Learning disabilities, although they can be categorised, can vary significantly from person to person. Each person is [...]

We recently invested £400,000 into expanding and improving the facilities of our Little Acres home in Nottingham, located on Spencer Drive in Nuthall. The site, which provides services for adult clients with learning or physical disabilities, currently has 17 beds. The single storey extension has created eight extra rooms, complete with en-suites, and has taken the total number of [...]

It’s the twelfth day of Christmas and it’s been a great festive season at PrimeLife. Six of our Lincolnshire homes celebrated with a large Christmas party on the 11th December. Fir Close, Netherlands, Clarence House, The Old Rectory, Glengarriff House and Tamar House all came together to make friends and enjoy the festivities. Around 80 people attended across all 6 [...]

We’re raising the standard of our service with a new internal training programme praised by staff. Internal training was recently carried out at Fir Close, in Louth, Lincolnshire, which has inspired staff and improved levels of care. The training company, One Way Training, has introduced some innovative new ways to deliver the sessions. Barbara Lambert, from the training company, ran the short taught [...]

Two residents at Little Acres Nottingham have celebrated their relationship in a special blessing ceremony at the Nottingham home. David and Sheila met each other at Little Acres and they have been together for 5 years now. Recently they asked if a special ceremony could take place at the home to celebrate their love. They decided that a friendship blessing [...]