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The gardens at Cedar Lodge...
Care Provided by Cedar Lodge
Primary Care Categories
- Older Person Care
- Dementia
Length of Stay
- Permanent Care
- Respite Care
Care Types Provided
- Residential Care
- Nursing Care
- Dementia Residential Care
- For a maximum of 47 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
- Moderate Dementia
Other Care Provided
- Palliative / End of Life Care
Facilities
- Smoking not permitted
- Close to Local shops
- Near Public Transport
- Minibus or other transport
- Lift
- Stairlift
- Wheelchair Access
- Gardens
- Residents Kitchenette
- Phone Point in own room
- 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 Cedar Lodge for full pricing details and T&Cs.
Contact Cedar Lodge 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)
Support you may be entitled to
- If you chose a care home based in England, you may be eligible for NHS Funded Nursing Care (FNC), which helps cover the cost of nursing. This is worth £267.68 per week and is usually paid directly to the care home.
Good to Know
Group / Owner
- MHA
- Voluntary / Not for Profit Owned
Person in charge
- Christina Samudzi (Manager)
Local Authority / Social Services
Admission Information
- Mixed (no single-gender units)
- Ages 65+
Care Home Design/Build
- Purpose Built: Yes
Room Information
- Single Rooms (47)
- Single Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (47)
Parking
- There is parking to the front and to the rear of the home.
Cedar Lodge Reviews (111)
Cedar Lodge has a Review Score of 9.7 (9.730) out of 10, based on 21 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Cedar Lodge has 111 reviews.
Great home. Nothing is too much trouble for the carers and my friend couldn't be in better hands.
The food is also wonderful and very varied. It's obvious that the catering staff take a lot of effort to provide interesting and nutritious food.
Thank you for your very complimentary review of the care and support your friend receives at Cedar Lodge. It is great to hear how wonderful the food is and how excellent you find our home to be.
Predominantly the staff are warm, friendly and caring. The environment is excellent and also the food. The occupational therapy staff work really hard to the residents stimulated.
We as a family are extremely grateful for the love and care that mum receives.
Thank you for telling us about the care and support your Mum is receiving at Cedar Lodge. I am so pleased that you find our team warm friendly and caring and that you find the food of such excellent quality
I would like to say how wonderful the staff are at Cedar Lodge care home. My Grandma has been a resident there for the last year and the staff are just so amazing. The manager, the catering team, care staff and domestics and not forgetting the amazing activity ladies! I feel so reassured that that my grandma is in such caring hands!
All the residents, including my grandma, go out on trips on regular basis. The food and facilities and caring staff team make Cedar Lodge feel so warm and homely, a true extended family!
Thank you for telling us about the excellent care that your Grandma receives from our wonderful staff team, it is great to hear that we are achieving the warm and homely feel that we strive to deliver.
I cannot recommend the home enough. The kindness and care shown to my mother has been 100%. After many years of saying that I wouldn't put her in a home I know that this has been the right thing to do. She is happy and safe. The food is fantastic. It is a home from home. All aspects from spiritual, health and activities are excellent.
My father has been in the home for quite a while now as far as I am aware he is very happy and well looked after. The staff and carers are very close and caring and look after my dad very well and of lately my dad has been very ill and the carers and duty nurses have been exceptional. I am very relaxed with my dad here so I am happy.
Thank you for telling us about the exceptional care that your Father has received at Cedar Lodge. It's lovely to hear that your Father is so happy and that you can relax knowing he is well cared for by a close and caring team.
It is secure with coded locks but easy to access for relatives and friends who can visit at any time.
The staff are brilliant, caring and helpful, always available to answer any questions.
Activities are provided every day. They are varied to include each of the resident's particular interests and include trips out on their own minibus.
The chefs provide wonderful food and do their best to include any particular requests.
Cedar Lodge is always kept extremely clean.
Residents are treated with care, dignity and as individuals.
Thank you for telling us about the care and support your Dad receives at Cedar Lodge. It’s great to hear how brilliant you think our team are, they will be delighted to hear your lovely comments.
I cannot praise this care home enough! My granddad was in Cedar Lodge for around 18 months, I can honestly say it was the best decision we ever made. He absolutely loved living there, amongst all the other residents and joining in all the daily activities - his favourite being the music man on a Tuesday! The staff are incredible - it is like one big family and they made it so much easier for us as a family to cope. Unfortunately, my granddad passed away at the end of January but the support and guidance we received from everyone were amazing. The staff even coming in on their days off to check we were all ok, and bringing us meals on wheels when we were there all day and night, I don't think you would receive better service in a hotel!
Thank you for telling us about your Granddad, it is great to hear how much he enjoyed living at Cedar Lodge and singing with our music therapist. I’m sorry your Granddad has now passed away but it's lovely that our team were able to help provide a good end of life experience for him and all of the...
My mother is a resident at Cedar Lodge and I have been pleased with the overall care and the staff have been great even though I know that they find it difficult to recruit the right staff.
Thank you for telling us about the care and support your Mother receives at Cedar Lodge. It's great to hear your lovely comments regarding the quality of the team.
As always, recruiting the right people is an ongoing challenge for all care providers. I’m pleased to report that our challenge is going well and that we are very proud of the standard of care our colleagues at Cedar Lodge provide.
An excellent care home atmosphere, clean, very friendly and great excitement over newly hatched baby chicks.
Thank you for reviewing the care and support your loved one receives at Cedar Lodge. It's great to hear you think we are excellent and I am glad you are enjoying the chicks with us.
Mum has been very well cared for since moving to the home over a year ago. The staff have patience, treat residents as individuals, and have a very caring attitude. It was very difficult moving mum from an independent life to residential, but we feel that we can trust everyone there to help her in every way. She developed an infection recently and it was only because of the quick response of staff on duty to a serious situation which enabled her to make a full recovery.
Thank you for telling us about the care and support your Mum receives at Cedar Lodge. It’s a difficult time when a loved one needs to move to residential care and I am so pleased that it has proved positive for your Mum and the family. I'll be sure to pass your comments, about how patient and caring everyone is, to our team.
It has proved to be the right decision for my sister and I, the staff are very caring and the manager very approachable. I pop in at a variety of times and have always been happy with the way the residents are treated, with respect and dignity.
There are lots of activities and trips out which I know mum really appreciates.
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 23 December 2025Good
- 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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- 25 Mar 2026
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Meet the Team (1)

Christina Samudzi is the devoted care home Manager at MHA Cedar Lodge, bringing over a decade of dedication and care to the home. With a professional background in midwifery, Christina’s compassionate approach to care has been central to her journey since she first joined Cedar Lodge as Deputy Manager 10 years ago. For the past 4 years, she has led the home as Manager, fostering an inclusive, supportive environment for both residents and their families.
Christina is proud to lead a committed and passionate team that treats every resident like family. Under her leadership, Cedar Lodge has become a place where everyone is welcomed with love, dignity, and respect. Whether supporting residents or offering reassurance to families, Christina and her team go above and beyond to ensure that every individual receives the highest standard of care in a truly warm and culturally rich environment.
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