Riverview offers a calming modern purpose-built secure dementia unit, completed to the highest of standards with secluded areas for visiting. The design is centred on an outdoor calming therapy garden. This specialised service is offered in 14 rooms laid out in a subtle circular design to assist the subtle re-orientation of our residents. The latest advancements were included to ensure our residents’ safety at all times.
At Riverview, those who have been assessed by the DHB Needs Assessment and Service Coordination service as requiring secure dementia care are compassionately cared for with safety being our top priority at all times.
Our specialised unit was completed in 2020 to the highest of standards. It was deliberately purpose built in a circular design to ensure the therapeutic wellbeing of our residents affected by many forms of dementia while ensuring their safety.
The design incorporates quiet spaces to enable interaction with family and Whanau as well as time in the fresh air outdoors in our calming therapy garden area. Our in-house home style cooked menu is extremely popular with our residents, all of whom are invited to enjoy second and third helpings, an important aspect of the not-for-profit care we provide.
Recognising the challenges for families and whanau in supporting their loved ones with dementia, we aim to also support spouses, families and whanau through this journey. A tailor-made personalised Care Plan is created upon admission which is regularly re-visited to best suit the unique temperament and personality of each resident admitted into our Secure Dementia Unit for care.
Our day includes free time to balance over-stimulation and our residents are given autonomy wherever possible to ease frustration. Riverview values the comfort of soothing music being played in the background and the availability of safe familiar items such as magazines, clothing, and domestic items in a mock kitchen to ease distress and agitation by enabling low stimulus sensory and tactile engagement.
To further support our philosophy of providing quality holistic care, Riverview offers daily activities and regular interactive days with pets and small calm animals recognising the therapeutic effect that animals can bring particularly to those affected by dementia.
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