Residential care
For people who can no longer manage at home, even with help. Your own room, your own routine, your own furniture, and people on hand day and night.
£1,020 a week.
Today's lunch, if you come
Battered fish and chips with mushy peas.
And this afternoon: 2:30pm Bingo, with small prizes. Stay for lunch at £6 if you ring by ten.
The rest of todayVisit any day, no appointment.
A family-run care home on the hill above Ammanford, since 1994. Ring the bell at any reasonable hour, and someone will show you round and put the kettle on.
01269 496 0166Today, Friday 6 November
What is on the table, and what is on.
The menu
- BreakfastPorridge, or boiled egg and soldiers
- LunchBattered fish and chips with mushy peas
- TeaTomato soup, bara brith
What is on
- 10:30am Communion, or a quiet coffee
- 2:30pm Bingo, with small prizes
- 4pm Tea, and letters home
There is always another choice at every meal, including for diabetic, soft and vegetarian diets. Visitors can stay for lunch at £6: ring by ten.
What we do
Six kinds of care, under one roof.
Nursing care
For people with medical needs that require a registered nurse. Your health board pays a contribution towards this nursing care, whatever your savings.
£1,240 a week, before FNC.
Dementia care
A small homely wing where familiar things are within reach and there are people to walk with. Staff know the person, and not just the diagnosis.
£1,120 a week.
Respite care
A short stay while the carer at home has a rest, a holiday or an operation, or to try the place out. You are looked after as if you were staying.
£1,150 a week.
Palliative and end-of-life care
Comfort, dignity and company at the end of life, with our nurses, the GP and the community palliative team. Your family can stay, overnight if they wish.
Within nursing fee.
Day visits
A day here, one or more days a week, with lunch and whatever is on. Good company for someone at home, and a day off for whoever looks after them.
£85 a day.
How we work
Four things you can hold us to.
Come without telling us
We mean it. Visit on a wet Tuesday at teatime. That is the honest way to see a care home, and it is the one we would use ourselves.
We publish the fees
They are on this website, in pounds, with what is and is not included. If they go up we write to you with three months' notice and say why.
We are not the only choice
We will tell you honestly if somewhere else suits your mother better, including staying at home with help. Our manager will talk it through either way.
You can always raise it
With the manager, whose door is open, or with Care Inspectorate Wales. Raising a concern will never affect anyone's care.
- 1994the year the Thomas family opened the house
- 32rooms, all with a window onto the hills
- 24 hourswith a registered nurse on duty, every day
- Any dayvisit whenever you like, with no appointment
Inspection
Read the report. Then come and see for yourself.
Care Inspectorate Wales inspects us and publishes its findings. On a live site the link to our latest report would be here. On this demonstration site it is a placeholder, and we have not invented a grade or a rating.
Reviews
What families say.
We came unannounced on a Sunday, as the website said to. Somebody offered us a cup of tea before they asked who we were. Mam has been here two years. She complains about the custard, and she would be furious if we moved her.
Dad was a miner, and he had got to the point where he spoke only Welsh, and only to some people. One of the carers sat and talked to him about Betws pit in Welsh for half an hour. I had to go out to the car.
The nurse rang me at six in the morning to say Mum's chest had got worse, and what they had done, and that I did not need to rush, but I could if I wanted to. That is the thing you want to be told, and how you want to be told it.
Questions people ask
Do I really not need an appointment?
Really. Come any day. If you want to talk through money or care plans with Menna, ring first so that she is free. But just walking in is the best way to see the place.
What does it cost?
Residential £1,020 a week, dementia £1,120, nursing £1,240 before Funded Nursing Care, and respite £1,150. The fees page works out a total for the weeks you put in, and it explains the funding.
What did the last inspection say?
Care Inspectorate Wales inspects us and publishes its reports. The latest is on the CIW website: on a live site we would link it here. On this demonstration site that link is a placeholder, and we have not invented a grade.
Do you care in Welsh?
Yes. Many of the staff are first-language Welsh speakers and we offer it without being asked. Tell us if you would prefer it.
Who pays?
It depends. Your local council assesses your finances, the health board pays towards nursing care, and sometimes the NHS pays it all. Age Cymru and the council can both give free advice.
What happens if the money runs out?
Tell us early. The council may step in once your savings reach the limit, and we will work with you and them. We will not ask you to leave without a proper conversation.
Come and see us. Any day.
No appointment. Ring the bell at any reasonable hour, and someone will show you round and put the kettle on. If you want to talk about money or care plans with Menna, ring first so that she is free.