
The facilities that are on offer allow residents to maintain as much independence as possible.Petra W(Friend of Resident/Service User)

a shining example of how every care home should beCarol W(Daughter of Resident/Service User)


The facilities that are on offer allow residents to maintain as much independence as possible.Petra W(Friend of Resident/Service User)

a shining example of how every care home should beCarol W(Daughter of Resident/Service User)


Welcome to Brookdale Care Home
Residential & Dementia Care in the Heart of Bury
Brookdale Care Home offers exceptional residential care in a beautifully renovated setting, alongside specialist support for those living with dementia and Alzheimer’s in Bury’s most advanced purpose-built unit. Ideally located just five minutes from the M66, Brookdale provides easy access to Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Blackburn, and across Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
Brookdale offers beautifully landscaped gardens, a spacious conservatory...
Care Provided by Brookdale Care Home
Primary Care Categories
- Older Person Care
- Dementia
- Physical Disability
- Visual / Hearing Impairment
Length of Stay
- Permanent Care
- Respite Care
Care Types Provided
- Residential Care
- Dementia Residential Care
- For a maximum of 58 Service Users
Dementia Care TypesMild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
Mild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
- Mild Dementia
- Moderate Dementia
- Advanced/Complex Dementia
Other Care Provided
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Palliative / End of Life Care
- COPD/Pulmonary Disease
- Bariatric Care/Obesity
- Convalescent Care
Facilities
- Own Furniture if required
- Pet Friendly (or by arrangement)
- Close to Local shops
- Near Public Transport
- Lift
- Wheelchair Access
- Ground Floor Accommodation only
- Gardens
- Bar/Café
- Residents Kitchenette
- Television point in own room
- Residents Internet Access
Funding & Fees
Weekly Charges per Person
The price(s) shown are provided by the care home. Contact Brookdale Care Home for full pricing details and T&Cs.
Contact Brookdale Care Home to confirm what's included and get a personalised quote:
Funding Types Accepted
- Self-Funding (Private)
- Local Authority with Top-up
- Local Authority
- NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
Good to Know
Group / Owner
- Sfera Care
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Lydia Hardie (Home Manager)
Local Authority / Social Services
Admission Information
- Mixed (no single-gender units)
- Ages 50+
Care Home Design/Build
- Purpose Built: Yes
- Year Purpose Built: 2012
- Last Refurbishment: 2025
- Number of floors: 2
Room Information
- Single Rooms (50)
- Couples/Companion Rooms (4)
- Single Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (4)
- Couples/Companion Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (4)
Visiting
- Visiting times are flexible throughout the day and night. However, the team kindly ask family and friends to avoid visiting during meal times to minimise disruption for residents.
Parking
- Private Car Park
Brookdale Care Home Reviews (60)
Brookdale Care Home has a Review Score of 9.5 (9.481) out of 10, based on 12 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Brookdale Care Home has 60 reviews.
I recently attended some of the lovely events held at Brookdale for residents and their loved ones, including the Summer Fair. It was a fantastic day very welcoming and enjoyable for everyone. The staff and home manager Lois went above and beyond to make the occasion special, creating a warm and friendly atmosphere throughout. Residents were smiling all day, and the buffet was beautifully presented and delicious. I'm really looking forward to attending future events at Brookdale.
Thank you so much for your lovely review. We're glad you had fun at our summer fair and welcome you to join us for all our events at Brookdale. Hopefully see you at our resident Christmas Party! Many thanks - Lois
Excellent care! Amazing staff! Can't praise team Brookdale highly enough - for all the love, care & support they showed Dad & family during his stay. Much appreciated! Thankyou x
Thank-you for your kind feedback, we will share the positive news with the staff
A warm and welcoming Care Home. Staff are very attentive and understanding of residents individual needs. A varied timetable of activities is produced each week for residents to engage in should they wish to. The Activities Co-ordinator is fabulous. All the rooms are cleaned to a very high standard as is the home. A lovely coffee shop, beautifully decorated, is across the annex for residents to visit. All in all an extremely excellent Care Home, Management are approachable and always available to listen, help and solve any concerns. I would not hesitating in recommending.
Hi Eileen, thank you for taking the time to leave a review and for your kind praise of our team. Your feedback truly motivates us to keep improving and continuing to provide excellent care for our residents.
Our family wish to thank the care home for organising a 99th Birthday party for resident our relative in their lovely coffee lounge today 11th August. Nothing was too much trouble. We had 2 babies and 2 boys plus many family members. Everyone had a great time and in particular Dad enjoyed the day. Thankyou to all the staff.
Hi Sue, thank you so much for your review. We are so glad the party went well.. 99, what an achievement! Many thanks, Lois.
My mother came into Brookdale after being in hospital. She needed further care to help with her recovery. Every member of staff we met were amazing, very polite,nothing was too much trouble. I was worried at first thinking she wudnt settle, but we had no problems at all she even said she enjoyed herself. I would definitely recommend Brookdale to my friends & family and would have no hesitation to bring her again. Thank you for making her stay a happy one..
Thank you so much for your kind words! We're truly grateful for your feedback and delighted to know our efforts are making a positive difference. It's a privilege to care for our residents, and your support means a great deal to our team.
I'm always so happy to visit my grandad in Brookdale, the staff are so lovely and welcoming. They are always upbeat, professional and provide wonderful care to the residents here. I particularly enjoy coming on a Sunday for the lunch in the coffee shop, it provides a more intimate visit with your loved one and the food is always top quality at a great price. The rooms and public areas are always spotlessly clean and my grandad is very well looked after by all staff. Thank you, Brookdale.
Hello! Thank you so much for your review & kind words. It really means a lot us us all at Brookdale and I will share your feedback with the team. We are so glad you join us on Sundays for a roast in the coffee shop and that you enjoy it, this is what we hoped for when introducing this for our relatives and loved ones. Thank you again - Lois
A friend had been a resident of Brookdale for a few months now and it's been brilliant. The staff are friendly and approachable. They treat the residents with the up most care at all times and the residents are always smiling. The facilities are fantastic from a small cafe to get tea and cake that's decorated beautifully to all the activities on a weekly basis. There's something for all of the residents to enjoy! Even visitors are made to feel welcome. Great place for those that need that little extra help.
Thank you so much for your review & kind words. The feedback doesn't go unnoticed and we appreciate it so much! I will pass your review on to the team. Thanks again - Lois.
My dad has been resident at Brookdale for five and a half years. During that time there has been the pandemic, changes in staff, leadership and ownership, but the quality of care has never diminished. Communication is a strength as is the quality of care and knowledge and understanding of the residents. A real effort is made to provide engaging activities to suit all preferences and families are enabled to feel like genuine partners to in their relative's care. When dad is confused, the staff are loving and caring, and when he is grumpy, patient and kind. Every time we visit, dad tells us that he is happy, and that is the measure of how well he is cared for.
Thank you so much for your review & kind words. I've had the pleasure of being alongside your Dad for all these years and what a privilege it is to look after him, as it is all of our residents. I will pass on your review to the team - thank you again! Lois
I moved my friend here from another care home in March. After just 24hrs I noticed a big change in him. He's not mithering me to take him out all the time as he's happy staying in with all the entertainment going on in Brookdale. He's so happy now and it's really good to see. The difference here is the staff care and look after the residents at all times. It's great I love the place. Well done to the office admin and all the staff. You all do a great job and are very caring.
thank you so much for your review & feedback.
More recently, however, changes seem to have been made. Lines of communication are excellent and we are very happy with the care shown to our Mum. The staff seem kind and patient and Mum (for the most part) seems very settled. On entering Brookdale we are always greeted with a smile and staff members are always on hand to assist. We feel reassured that the staff at Brookdale do all they can to make our Mum's time there as comfortable as possible - and that makes us, as her family, very grateful.
thank you so much for your feedback and review.
Our Mum sadly passed away in February, having entered the home in October 2024. I wanted to note the care and compassion shown to her in her last few weeks - which were very difficult. Knowing that, when we weren't there, we had absolute confidence that she was being cared for was a huge comfort. In such difficult moments, we were treated with absolute kindness by every member of staff.
Claire, thank you so much for your review. It was a pleasure to care for your Mum and we are very grateful to have met you & the rest of your family along the way. We hope you will come and visit us soon. Take care.
New weekly emails helpful.
His room is dark and small but as he is hardly in there, its important.
I would like to be notified if the funds he has at the home run low. His account went into the red but I didn't know.
All the people at Brookdale really care. They treat the residents and their relatives with respect.
Hi Jane, thank you so much for your lovely review. We hope you continue to visit us at Brookdale and hope to see you soon. Take Care.
Lovely staff who look after my aunty with such care and kindness, thank you to all the staff for everything you do. One staff member took me over to the dementia unit to see the coffee shop which is amazing and showed me the menu and activities that the residents can do.
Hi Susan, thank you so much for your lovely review. We really appreciate it!
They keep us regularly updated with the activities they do and photos and videos are always being posted. Couldn’t ask for more.
Thank you so much for your lovely review. We certainly enjoy our breakfast club mornings with your Nan in the coffee shop (preferred name "Garden Centre" by Nan especially!).
Nothing is too much trouble for any of the staff, all the staff smile (even when they are having a rubbish day themselves).
Overall, the family are pleased that Mum is being cared for with respect and dignity.
Thank you so much for your review and kind words. We love our morning coffee with Mum on a Wednesday morning at breakfast club. With best wishes.
My experiences of the care are mixed. The senior staff generally had little or no time for us and we felt they were unapproachable. The junior staff on the whole were lovely and very helpful. I did not trust that my mother was being fed regularly or given enough to drink, and being left in bed for long periods in the day.
One time we visited the care quality inspector was talking to me and the senior staff were ever so nice giving me updates on my mother.
The next day in the absence of the Inspector we were ignored yet again.
Since my mother died I have not heard from the management of the home. No condolences have been offered.
I would not recommend Brookdale.
We are very saddened that you felt your Mother’s last days and your experience of Brookdale was not of that, that we strive to do. We take on board your comments and will discuss as a team any improvements we can make. We are very sorry for the loss, of your Mother.
As I live over 2 hours drive away, it is always good to know this. As she wasn’t well, I drove up twice this week, the first time she was in A&E so I witnessed how the carers interacted with her. I am not sure if we can name them but two staff members in particular were both great at keeping Mum settled and calm.
Finally, what they do in the way of activities, the cleanliness of the home, standards of food and are all to be commended.
Thank you for your positive feedback - we will share this with our team!
My father-in-law has always been a fiercely independent person but was struggling on his own to take care of himself and often refused the help that home carers offered and was depressed and forgetting to eat due to delirium and dementia. However, following yet another spell in hospital, he was persuaded to consider moving into residential care for his own safety. We stayed away for a few days so that the staff could help him to settle in and to our surprise, when we next visited, he looked happy and well and the staff reported that he was enjoying the food. He really likes the staff and enjoys their company. It is apparent to us that the staff are extremely caring and go out of their way to make the residents comfortable.
Thank you for your positive comments. We love having your father-in-law here at the home, whilst he enjoys our company, we thoroughly enjoy his! He is the most kindest, loveliest man. We are very proud of our team at Brookdale Care Home, we hope to continue to have a long and happy association with yourselves.
All the staff without exception are exemplary, they are friendly and know your name and always make you feel very welcome.
Chose this care home because my mum was the happiest there (it is a 32 mile round trip unfortunately).
Everyone is so friendly and loving towards my mum. I always know she is in good hands and safe.
Keep up the good work guys, you should be proud of yourselves.
Thank you, Clive! we much appreciate your positive feedback. We treat Mum as if she is our own. Nothing is too much for our team- fueled by the fab treats you bring for us!
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 06 December 2023Good
- CaringGood
- EffectiveGood
- ResponsiveGood
- SafeGood
- Well-ledGood
Inspection ratings
We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:
- Outstanding - The service is performing exceptionally well.
- Good - The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
- Requires Improvement - The service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
- Inadequate - The service is performing badly and we've taken action against the person or organisation that runs it.
- Not rated - we have not yet rated this area of the service, this is normally because the assessments we have carried out have been focused on other key questions.
Bed Vacancies
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Awards / Recognitions (4)
- 12 Dec 2018Recipient: Brookdale Care Home
- 06 Dec 2018Recipient: Brookdale Care Home
- 13 Nov 2015Recipient: Brookdale Care Home
Accreditations
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Meet the Team (4)

Hi, I'm Lydia.
I have joined Brookdale as Registered Manager and have over 17 years of experience in the care sector, including managing large and complex services. I am passionate about creating a home where people feel genuinely valued and supported. I have focused on building strong, trusting relationships and leading teams with empathy, honesty and a commitment to delivering excellent care. My goal is to make sure residents feel safe, respected and heard and that families and staff feel part of a warm, open, and inclusive community.

Hi, I’m Misbah, Deputy Manager at Brookdale.
You’ll often find me leading our dedicated care team, bringing a positive spirit and plenty of energy to brighten our residents’ days. I’m passionate about creating a warm, supportive environment where everyone feels valued and cared for

Originally a painter and decorator by trade, I'm now the go-to fixer at Brookdale, handling any job big or small with a can-do attitude. Whether it’s a quick repair or a major project, I take pride in keeping everything running smoothly for residents and staff alike.
Outside of work, you’ll usually find me out on my motorbike, exploring the UK one road at a time.

Hi, I’m Crisal, always bringing my best smile to every shift!
Originally a nurse from India, I’m proud to bring my skills, experience, and warm heart to care for our wonderful residents here at Brookdale every single day.
Frequently Asked Questions about Brookdale Care Home
What types of Care is Brookdale Care Home registered for?
Older Person Care, Dementia, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment are the registered (by the Care Quality Commission) categories of Care.
How many Rooms does Brookdale Care Home have?
There are 50 Single Rooms and 4 Couples/Companion Rooms.
What are the Facilities & Services at Brookdale Care Home?
Own Furniture if required, Pet Friendly (or by arrangement), Close to Local shops, Near Public Transport, Lift, Wheelchair Access, Ground Floor Accommodation only, Gardens, Bar/Café, Residents Kitchenette, Television point in own room, Residents Internet Access are some of the Facilities & Services.
How far is Brookdale Care Home to the centre of Bury?
0.3 mile(s) as the crow flies, distance by road may be significantly further.
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