The Oaks Care Home

Oaks and is very well cared for. The new visiting procedures with all the restrictions are very well organised.

his 89th birthday.
The home have been extremely careful to reduce the risk of Covid. Though periods of shut down have meant I have been unable to visit at times, we have been kept up to date. Regular zoom meetings with the Managing Director and home managers have kept us informed with current information and opportunity to ask questions. Arrangements were made for garden visits with access to a garden room when the risk was lower. This was very much appreciated.
The catering is excellent and my father always says the food is very good.
I am reassured that my father is in good hands.

holidays, complying with all the regulations in the wider community as well as the home, laundering their uniforms at the end of every shift, and putting their residents front and centre of all they do. Their reward - and heaven knows they deserve one - is that there have been no cases of infection amongst the residents nor, as of the most recent update, amongst the staff. And despite how tired and stressed they all must be, they keep a fine sense of humour and are great morale booster. And of course, they have to do all the things they would normally do for the residents (and doubtless their own families) as well. These are heroines and I thank them most warmly.