Briarlea Care Home

Don't let your loved ones anywhere near this home...
Jan 24th, 2023

Brierlea is a fantastic place for any person to consider care options. Jo (manager) and her team are dedicated and provide the highest standards of care you could want for your loved ones. Residents are treating with respect and dignity at all times and the care home is a happy place which you always get that feeling it is when visiting (my Mum has been a resident since November 2019). I would not hesitate to recommend Brierlea to anyone.
Jan 1st, 2021

My Mum has dementia and moved into Briarlea February 2020. The staff and management have been great. Their swift action at the start of the pandemic have proven to be the right thing to do. And they deserve a medal having to deal with my Mother every day.
Jul 25th, 2020

Having moved my parents-in-law to Briarlea from a large, well known care provider (who has since sold their residential care business), we were delighted with the support they were given in settling into their new environment. The staff were professional, considerate and caring - we could not have asked for more. Over the period of losing her husband, my mother-in-law was looked after with love, care, understanding and consideration in settling into her life without her partner of over 60 years. Briarlea is justly proud that many of their staff have worked together for many years, making them a compassionate team who know their residents well and who treat each as an individual. There is a good range of activities which residents can take part in or just happily watch from the side-lines. When we leave after a visit, we leave with the confidence that all residents are warm, well cared for, safe, well nourished and living in a very homely environment. We wish that we had found Briarlea from the start of our searching for suitable care for our loved ones. The senior management of the home actively encourage feed back, so any concerns can be quickly explained and addressed. It is all to easy to hide behind negative comments in reviews.
Oct 30th, 2020

My aunt needed to go into a care home in 2017. Briarlea was recommended to us and from our first visit, there was no doubt whatsoever that my aunt could be very happy here. Consequently when my mother needed to go into a care home in early 2020, we knew straight away which care home we could entrust with her care. Both settled in very quickly, which was very much down to the exemplary professionalism of each and everyone of the staff who treated both my aunt and mother with great care and compassion. Both my aunt and mother suffer from dementia as do other residents in the home, however, from my many visits it has been very heartening to see how the the staff make each and every resident feel valued and respected as an individual. The standard of cleanliness throughout the home is of the highest standard, and the residents have access to a wonderful garden which they can sit in and enjoy when the weather permits. There are always plenty of activities for the residents to participate in if they wish to do so. Post pandemic they will also be able to welcome back the popular outside entertainers who put a real smile on their faces! You can also be assured that the residents enjoy a varied and nutritional menu. The pandemic has thrown up many challenges for the management and staff and it is fair to say that they have approached these challenges with great determination, and their usual above and beyond attitude. The visitors pod was an excellent innovation which allows visitors to see their relatives safely from behind a glass partition. Phone calls and face time calls are also available to maintain contact with relatives. The communication from the management cannot be faulted as they have ensured that all relatives have been kept up to date with any COVID matters. I write this review with three years experience of the Briarlea Care Home, so I can honestly say I would have no hesitation in highly recommending Briarlea to any family who are facing the difficult decision in choosing a care home for their loved ones.
Oct 4th, 2020