Comment: | The Abbeyfield Society is one of the largest voluntary sector UK-wide providers of housing and care for older people. Abbeyfield's accommodation is described as Supported Sheltered housing providing for older people with low dependency. People who become frail are normally helped to find domiciliary care so they do not necessarily have to move.
Abbeyfield also provides more than eighty registered residential care offering twenty four hour personal support to older people with higher dependency. There are some houses that offer nursing facilities and dementia care.
Founded in 1956 by Richard Carr-Gomm, Abbeyfield has grown to include nearly seven hundred and fifty houses managed by professional staff and volunteers, providing support, care and friendship for araound eight thousand residents.
Abbeyfield's Ethos: Abbeyfield aims to be affordable to all. Volunteers, staff and older people work together, tackling isolation and frailty, helping people remain as active and independent as they wish, even if they become frail or disabled.
They have a second website at www.abbeyfielduk.com. |
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