Millard

Care
Home
By Indervir Singh
Overview
- I spent a week (7 days) at Millard Care Home in Braintree & Bocking
- Millard care home as per the name is a care home, there is 3 types of homes,
residential care homes, nursing homes and dementia homes – as explained by
Rajesh (one of the carers)
- The typical day for one of the residents looks like – waking up around 8am, getting
down to the dining hall and finish eating by 10am and they will order their lunches,
sitting in the lounge or in the dining area till 12 pm at which point it is lunch time,
then this would be followed by seating the residents in the lounges if they wished to
till 4 pm where they would be brought back to their places in the dining room so
that they could have their tea which would soon be followed by their dinner
Role Of the Carers
- The primary role of the carers is to take care of the residents, this involves making sure that they are
eating well, especially the dementia patients who forget to eat, have to be reminded, moreover the
carers are vital in moving the resident from place A to B, since the majority of residents are unable to
move by themselves – notice how I am referring to them as residents, this is something I picked-up
and was explained that they are referred to as residents rather than patients since they are not within a
hospital setting.
Finance
- 575 a week, roughly 2,300 a month
- expenditure of roughly a million a year
Medicine and dietary