Cote Lane: Care Home Equipment

On the occasion of their silver wedding anniversary in 1911, Dame Monica and Henry Herbert Wills decided to establish ‘a purpose-built haven’ for ‘five or six missionary friends’. This idea became the St Monica Trust and today, the charity provides accommodation, care and support to more than 1,100 residents and many more people in the wider Bristol community.

Putting people at the heart of what they do is in their DNA. From the early days of the charity in the 1920s to the present day, the lives of older people has always been what matters most to them. They’re passionate about building relationships that make people feel valued and important. It’s this approach that has led to them being nationally and internationally recognised as experts in our field.

Adaptive Care were engaged to provide the CLB Acoustic Monitoring and Intelligent Nurse Call solution to their fully operational Garden House care home located in their Cote Lane Care Village near Bristol.

The existing Nurse Call solution needed to be replaced – Dementia sufferers needed to be able to call for assistance at night time without using traditional Nurse Call methods.

The solution had to cover bedrooms for 104 residents, communal rooms plus some external areas of the premises.

Adaptive Care offered CLB Acoustic Monitoring and Nurse Call. Traditional Nurse Call is usually reliant on interaction from the service user either pulling a pull cord or pressing a call bell for assistance. Many residents do not have the cognitive or physical ability to do this so they become more reliant on periodic checks or “reactive” technologies such as pressure sensors to know when intervention is required.