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Introducing our new Elderly Care Club, OWLS Club (Older, Wiser, Loveable Souls). This club is dedicated to men and women aged 65 and over, 7 days a week at our care home. We provide a safe, inviting, therapeutic and enjoyable community, environment and program for adults who cannot stay at home alone. It also gives much-needed and deserved support to family carers and allows them time to complete tasks or relax without the demands of caregiving.

Laura is a member of the Compton View team and her confidence has significantly grown throughout her time with us. She joined us in 2021 when she was 18 as a Sleep-in night worker while she studied at College, her goal is to work within the Nursing industry and this job has helped her to gain knowledge and experience within a similar field.

On Wednesday 2nd November we had a delightful visit to our Care Home from the Mayor of Yeovil, Evie Potts-Jones herself! Evie came to be the judge of a recent competition we were holding, the 'make your own Guy Fawkes' competition!

As a residential care home, we think it's so important to enter care awards annually so we can express to everyone how amazing our home is. It's also important to make our team aware of the amazing work they provide. Here's a list of the awards we are finalists for or have won this year so far!

There comes a sad time when we lose the ones we love, and it's so difficult to know how to handle this stage of our lives and deal with this grief. Whether you're dealing with grief yourself or helping someone else through a hard time, it's always useful to get some advice on how best to cope and what is normal. It's known that there are seven stages of grief, some of us may go through all of these or maybe just a few throughout the journey of grieving. Shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance and hope and finally processing the grief.

There are all sorts of care services available for the elderly, but how do we know which is right for us? Usually, as we get older we struggle to complete daily tasks as well as we used to, such as shopping, cleaning and cooking, there's only so much help we can get from family members and friends before it can be a bit of a burden on them to look after you 24/7. This is when you know it's time to look into care support. But what are the options?

Moving into a Care Home is a big decision and it can cost a lot of money. It’s important to consider your needs before choosing a care home. You should be clear about what level of support would most benefit you or your loved one and ensure the homes you look at can provide the right assistance. Before choosing a care home for you or someone you know, it's worth considering all of the options. Care homes can reduce the stress of looking after your health and care. This may help you focus on other things, like your social life and general wellbeing. Residential care homes provide living accommodation with 24-hour support and supervision, including help with personal care needs, meals and social activities. Nursing homes provide all of the above services, plus on-site medical care from a registered nurse.

Generally, as we get older, some of us will struggle to manage our daily tasks, especially when living alone. We will get tired more easily and lose mobility so that we cannot go out to do the food shop, or jump in the car to run some errands. You may even begin to struggle with personal care, this is the time when you need to look into assisted living with 24-hour care. It can be hard to know when the time is right for a person to move into a care home and who should make this decision if the person cannot make it themselves. A person with dementia will need more care and support as their condition progresses, and there may come a time when they will need to move into full-time or residential care.

During retirement, there may come a time when maintaining your current household just becomes too difficult. When the garden work and house cleaning become too much, or when you begin to struggle to get meals on the table, the obvious option many seniors consider is assisted living. Living on a cruise ship is a way for seniors to take advantage of similar amenities to those provided by assisted living facilities, like all-you-can eat meals, a swimming pool for low-impact exercise, regular companionship and entertainment, and even access to on-board doctors.

How to look after ageing skin ✨ Some of us may worry about how old we look or how many wrinkles we have on our face. We may feel a lot longer than we look, but what can we do about this? Here's some handy tips...

Exercise is an important part of nearly everyone’s everyday health, including older adults. Experts say seniors should be staying fit and healthy for as long as possible to help improve happiness and quality of life. What are the benefits of maintaining regular exercise into your golden years?

The Queen's Jubilee at Compton View was a blast!! 🇬🇧 This special occasion was a time for us all to get together and do lots of fun things. We celebrated with cake, wine, sandwiches, afternoon tea and even our own coronation! As we prepared the house and put up the decorations, the mood changed, and everything got a little brighter.

WE'RE A FINALIST ⭐️ 🤩 Compton View is up for "Best for Indoor or Outdoor Communal Spaces" with the Care Home Awards 2022. Not only for all of the amazing work Ruth does to make our home and garden look full of life 🌳 But for our team creating a welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere in our communal spaces where we provide entertainment and daily activities.

We've only gone and won an award... 🏆🥇 Compton View has won the award for 'Best for Special Needs' in the Care Home Awards 2021. Here's our story..

HELLO DECEMBER! As the festive season comes around, it's time to be checking on our loved ones and make sure our elderly relatives are being well looked after. If you're finding it a struggle to look after your elderly relatives and find that they may need full-time care, it may be time to look for a Care Home. Our home in Yeovil, Compton View, provides around the clock care, our team are trained to provide quality care and skilled to assist any medical concerns or daily tasks they may need help with. Our home is filled with love and friendship, all of our current residents have formed wonderful friendships within each other which is so lovely to work with. As Christmas comes around, you may think it's not the right time to put your elderly relatives in full-time care, however, spending a day in our home could be the first step to introducing them into a Care Home, you can spend the day at our home and get to meet our full-time residents, take part in our daily activities (which this month will be Christmas themed) and indulge in lots of delicious food.

Understanding the care and support needs of older people is what we do best. Recent statistics estimated that people aged 65 and over in the United Kingdom are expected to live almost 50% of their remaining lives with a limiting long-term physical or mental health condition, thus increasing their need for care and support. Taking the steps necessary to provide your loved ones with what they need to age sets them up for ease in their older years. This can be in a variety of ways. This can include taking time to make sure they are doing the things they enjoy in life, that they are still focusing on their mental health, or even talking to them about care home opportunities or weekly visits to a care home for friendship and assistance.

Here at Compton View, we provide elderly care for seniors aged 65+. We welcome everyone and treat them all as family, we treat our residents with our values of integrity, kindness and trust, coupled with our desire to provide a compassionate and dignified environment. To treat our residents as the advanced human beings they are. It is our honour to care for them. We provide services for residential care, day care, holiday care, short stay care, palliative care, respite care, early-onset dementia care, retirement, end of life care, complex care needs and assisted living.

One of the most commonly asked questions people have when it is time for their loved one to move into residential care is what the difference between a care home and a nursing home is. Different types of care homes work differently and provide different levels of care. Sometimes, what people refer to as a ‘care home’ may in fact be a care home that only provides residential care, known as a residential care home. A residential care home is different from a nursing home. The main difference is that a nursing home always has a qualified nurse on-site to provide medical care.

Compton View care home is set in a quiet residential area of Yeovil, Somerset. We have the benefits of fantastic views over the countryside, as well as the football field at Bucklers Mead just opposite where there's usually a game going on, whatever the weather. We are just a short walk from local shops, the post office and a local park.

We all had a fantastic night at the Great British Care Awards on 22nd July, everyone looked beautiful and we were all in high spirits after such a long and difficult year. It was such a great experience to be with everyone again, all of the other care homes brought such a lively atmosphere to the room which was amazing to be involved in. It really brought the South West community together. What a joy it was to be celebrating together again.

Being a small home with only 17 rooms, we are able to create a homely environment where strong relationships are built between the staff and residents, something you may not find in a larger home where the rotation of staff can be unpredictable. We create a cosy and homelike environment for our residents, everyone can mingle together and form close relationships. In a larger home you may see more separated groups of friendships which can be unhealthy for the overall balance of the home..

Spend the day in great company with delicious home cooked food with entertainment/activities. Abandon loneliness, create strong friendships and just have fun! We're a family here at Compton View, and we always welcome others with open arms. The best little care home in the south west.

We currently obtain a ‘Overall Good’ CQC rating from our inspection in April 2021 under the categories Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led. Our infection prevention and control is also Assured under the categories Visitors, Shielding, Admission, Use of PPE, Testing, Premises, Staffing and Policies. Here are some of the points taken from our latest report regarding infection control, lockdown and overall...

We have recently been nominated & shortlisted for the 2020 Great British Care Awards Regional round in the South West 🥳🎊...

This past year certainly hasn’t been easy, for our Staff and especially for our Residents. However, we are so very proud that we have not has a single case of Covid-19 in our home since the beginning of the pandemic!

Perhaps one of the biggest events in recent history that occurred on 6th June (1944) was the D-Day landings. In our own way we fought our own battle on Thursday 6th June 2019 – three quarters of a century later – when we attended the first of our award ceremonies of 2019 – that of Family Business of the year...

Our care home in Yeovil, Somerset is named ‘Compton View’. ‘Compton’ comes from the Old English words cumb 'short, straight valley' + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement' and provides some insight into how our area of Yeovil might have looked a long time ago...

When you’ve reached the point where you think it’s the right time to have your loved ones move into a residential care, to be looked after 24/7, what factors do you consider in your care for the elderly? Almost certainly it’s a multitude of conflicting emotions, practical factors to be considered and perhaps a desire to look after them yourself rather than place them into care...

It is our great pleasure and honour to share the news that we were approached recently to write an article for The Parliamentary Review, showcasing our approach to adult care. We took over the ownership of our home in 2017 and have made our little corner of the world a delightful, caring and safe place for our residents. This has included ministering to the spiritual and cerebral needs of our residents. We have tried to get across our approach to care in the article and we encourage you to read it and share it!

Well, just like buses, our awards come in clusters! So far this year, we’ve made it to the UK Finals of 3 (yes ladies and gentlemen, you did read that correctly), 3 National awards! There may be more to come. Just keep watching this space! Looking for an official definition of ‘award’ we find one definition as “give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone)”.