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Murrayside, in Edinburgh, is dedicated to providing around the clock professional care to your loved one.
As part of Care UK, one of the nation’s leading residential care providers, our teams are highly experienced at delivering high quality care and understanding to residents. Focusing on maintaining a strong sense of identity, our tailored care programme ensures that your loved one is well looked after.
We’ve prepared the following guide so you can see, at a glance, the types of care we offer at Murrayside.
From our well-stocked library of books and films to our attractive dining room serving a range of nutritious, delicious meals, every area of our luxury home is designed to be a safe and welcoming space. There’s always a cup of tea and a friendly chat to join with in our sunny day room or take a stroll in our beautiful secure gardens. Created by specialist landscape architect, Annie Pollock, the year-round colour promotes wellbeing and stimulates thought processes.
Read moreWith our capable team trained to deliver professional, compassionate support for a variety of complex physical conditions, including multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease and parkinson’s disease, you have complete confidence that your loved one is being expertly cared for. Working closely with GPs and other medical specialists, a regularly updated care plan allows the team to work together to care for your loved one.
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Our highly qualified team possess the expertise and compassion to provide expert support to your loved one living with dementia, as well as any additional physical complications such as stroke, brain injury or motor neurone disease. With a bespoke plan under constant review, created in collaboration with local GPs and clinical professionals, we ensure your loved one receives the best care possible.
Read moreSupporting you, your family and your loved one throughout this emotional time, we provide expert empathetic care. Working with GPs and specialist medical professionals a detailed palliative care plan is drawn up, ensuring that effective pain relief, comfort and compassion are paramount.
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Our team at Murrayside is experienced in working with independent advocacy services. These provide reassurance if a person’s capacity means they have limited decision-making ability. The advocate is impartial, acts in the resident’s best interests and is a useful service if a resident has no family to advise them.
Designed to provide state-of-the-art dementia care, Murrayside’s spacious, welcoming surroundings offer hotel-style accommodation for residents. Passionate about delivering personalised care, we take the time to learn your loved one’s likes and dislikes, interests and what’s important to them. This allows us to plan enriching activities, such as music or crafts, that they will enjoy and become engaged with.
Moving into a care home can be a daunting, particularly for someone living with dementia. We take the time to get to know you and your loved one, putting each individual's needs, desires and choices at the heart of the care we provide. Our care plans are tailored to the individual and their needs, and we understand the importance of evolving them over time.
Read moreOur immediate surroundings can have a huge impact on our quality of life, particularly when trying to make sense of the world around us. We work with academic partners to create care home environments that help people living with dementia to live as independent and stress-free a life as possible.
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Our people are chosen for their attitude, dedication and caring nature, and we are committed to their on-going training and development. From our carers and nurses, to our activity coordinators, chefs and maintenance teams, we will go the extra mile to build strong relationships – not just with individuals living in our care homes, but also with their friends and family.
Read moreWe understand that a dementia diagnosis will affect more than just one individual, and we're here to support you and your family. Seeing a loved one change can be a difficult and heart-breaking experience and often the process of needing or delivering care can change family relationships significantly.
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We are proud to offer namaste care to residents living with advanced dementia. The purpose of namaste care is to give comfort and pleasure through sensory stimulation. Our namaste sessions are run by trained carers and involve individual caring touch, such as a hand or foot massages, music therapy, themed sensory and gentle movement sessions, or simply reminiscing.
Read moreWe are proud to have been internally accredited with the evidence-based, person-centred ‘Care Fit for VIPS’ developed by dementia experts at The Associate of Dementia Studies at The University of Worcester. The framework is centred around valuing those living with dementia, treating everyone as an individual, showing empathy towards those living with the condition, and recognising the need for a stimulating social environment.
At Care UK every member of our team has a personal and professional commitment to providing excellent care.
We’ve brought together many of the questions that families often ask us. If you need more information, or have any other questions, give our friendly team a call.