One bit more about Pentland Hill

Click here for a useful link about Pentland Hill Care Home. Towards the bottom of that page, there's another button to click on to get to the latest Care Commission Report on the place.
If anyone would like to write to her (she'd love that) here's the address:
B Wedderburn, Carnethy, Pentland Hill Nursing Home, 23/27 Gylemuir Road, Edinburgh EH12 7UB. The phone number is 0131 334 2383 and you can call anytime apart from 12-1pm and 5-6pm (meal times)

Note from Pete

This blog is funny in the way that when you write a post, it goes to the top of the page and the next one moves down, if you know what I mean. So I wrote five posts today, in kind of chronological order. The easiest way to read them will be to start at the bottom, and work your way up, rather than doing the natural thing by starting at the top and working your way down...
Anyway, here's another pic of Monique, to finish off the story of the day.....

More about Pentland Hills

There are thirty residents (on average), with one nurse, and five care assistants on duty at any one time. Carol Bell is the main nurse, in charge of the unit, but she wasn't there today due to the weather. B has already grown particularly fond of one girl, Mariana, from Eastern Europe, whose name I can't remember, but she's happy for B to call her Pixie, because she reminds her of Pixie. She'll shortly be moving from day shift to night shift, so it's nice to know that B will have her there at night time if she needs any help.
By the way, I asked today, and they said that we can phone any time, apart from at meal times (12 to 1, and 5 to 6). They say that it's unpredictable - sometimes when we call they may be very busy and hassled, but not at other times. It varies a lot. When I was there, they were unbelievably quiet at some times (five carers, all just sitting in chairs, apparently doing nothing) and at other times, they were obviously run off their feet.

The Care Home seems to have lots of activities that are well organised - one activity for each day of the week, as these notices show.......











And last of all, there's a lovely big bouncy Boxer who seems to visit every week.

More photos of Pentland Hills

Here's Z arriving at Pentland Hills this morning - you can see how the snow makes things difficult right now - it's made it difficult for Z to visit, and it's meant that the staff aren't all managing to get to work right now, so things are a bit pressurised.



This is me right outside the nursing home right outside B's front door. Cold!



Here's B's corridor - it leads from the main living room/ eating area down to B's room.



And here's her room from the outside.....



Looking through the open door.....



And now you're in. It's much bigger than the photos make it seem - really, a lovely room, looking out into a garden area.
I didn't take any photos of the main living / eating area, but it is a little oppressive - lots of bleak looking folk with Alzheimers wandering around, and a bit of a dining room/ care home institution aroma, if you know what I mean. It's fine, but I think that when folk visit, it'll make far more sense to go straight down to her room for a cup of tea and a chat....

Nursing home details

Not to be too boring, but here's a few photos and details about the Carnethy unit of the Pentland Hills Care Home, where B is based for now....