Service Users who engage in arts and crafts activities benefit from practical and emotional opportunities ranging from developing their fine motor skills and improving concentration, reducing their stress levels and a means of relaxing.

They also feel a sense of pride in their accomplishments which are often a means of self expression which provide the opportunity to engage the world on a more meaningful level.

The Cafe Area offers service users and their families as well as visitors to the home an ideal place for relaxation, within a completely different environment within the home.

With flexible opening times and staffed by fully qualified chef’s the Cafe Area offers hot and cold food and drinks, ranging from delicious 3 course meals, a sandwich or cake.

The Cinema area offers the opportunity to watch films – recent releases as well as old favourites within the convenient setting of the Home.

Popcorn, hotdogs and other ‘cinema’ snacks are on offer to provide the ambience of being ‘at the pictures’.

The huge plasma screens are also used for Wii, Playstation and Xbox games - with service users and carers often competing against each other!

Holistic therapy is a generic term for any treatment / therapy that is intended to treat the individual as a whole on all levels - mind, body and spirit.

At Careline Lifestyles we do everything possible to ensure that our service user’s receive the best possible care, both physically and emotionally.We therefore provide the highest specification facilities for our service users to enjoy holistic treatments and relaxing beauty treatments which promote positive health and therapeutic measures relating to their physical, mental, social and spiritual welfare.

Hydrotherapy is an effective way to treat individuals with short and long term neurological and physical conditions.

Service users enjoy a freedom of movement only experienced in the hydrotherapy pool. The water provides them with extra support and the reduced fear of falling can aid mobility and enable them to perform actions that they would otherwise be unable to do.

Hydrotherapy can be used to speed up the recovery of service users who are unable to weight-bear or can only partially weight-bear, by doing exercises against the resistance of water and dynamic exercises which increase the range of movement, improve muscle strength, balance and co-ordination.

For those individuals who cannot use the steps to get into the pool, there is a mechanical or overhead hoist to lower you into the water. Other benefits of hydrotherapy include:

• increase mobility
• reduce pain and muscle spasm
• improve and maintain joint range of movement
• strengthen weak muscle groups
• increase physical fitness and functional tolerances
• re-educate normal movement patterns
• improve balance
• improve co-ordination
• improve posture
• improve self confidence
• stimulate circulation

At Careline Lifestyles all of our Homes have a state of the art sensory room where Service Users can explore, develop and stimulate their senses and skills. However, the sensory room can also be used to help them become calm and to de-stress.

Each of our multi-sensory rooms have various features including padded floors and walls and interactive equipment which make dramatic changes to the sensory room environment using sound, lighting and fragrancing.