Crecy Care Home
Discover bespoke residential care from a highly trained care team in our welcoming care home.
Crecy Care Home is a specialist mental health care home in Weymouth, providing high-quality residential and respite care for older people living with dementia, and younger adults with complex mental health conditions.
We have an environment and facilities you won’t find at other care homes. From our independent living cottage and specialist mental health unit, through to our dementia care unit, we can support a large range of mental health issues.
We really are a ‘home from home’. Many of our residents have been with us for more than 10 years. As their needs have changed, so has the level and type of care they receive from us.
As well as caring for you, we care about your families too. Our door is always open for a chat, and our residents’ and families’ forum gives you a way to support each other. Plus, your family members are welcome in at any time, for a cuppa, or to join us for a meal.
Social activities
We place great emphasis on social activities and maintaining the type of life you have had at home, whether that is quiet and relaxed or an active lifestyle.
We love to welcome people into Crecy, including musicians and children from the local school. Our keep-fit sessions are also really popular. Our activities coordinators take on board all suggestions and feedback. We even have a residents committee that meet monthly to discuss new activities and trips out.
We are only a short distance from the award winning, Weymouth beach. We make the most of this by popping down to the seaside, and for fish and chips on the harbour is a regular activity we do in the summer months.
Discover your artistic expression in our regular classes, exploring various forms like drawing and painting. We love to showcase our art, infact, we like to put on exhibitions and showcase our residents’ talents.
Dining
At Crecy Care Home you will be served freshly prepared home cooked meals by our team of expert chefs. They ensure all our meals are healthy, nutritionally balanced and, most importantly, locally sourced wherever possible. Meals are served in our superb dining room, but you also have the option for food to be served in your room for a more private dining experience.
Nutrition is an important part of the care we provide. That’s why our catering team take time to get to know your likes and dislikes before putting together a vibrant and varied menu for you to choose from.
Bedrooms
There are 31 single bedrooms for people living at Crecy, across three floors of our main house and 5 rooms in The Cottage. All our rooms have ensuites or washbasins in the room. The rooms without ensuites have accessible bathrooms nearby.
Some of our bedrooms have amazing views over the Radipole Lake RSPB reserve, Weymouth and beyond. Others open directly onto the garden with room for a table and chairs.
Gardens
We love our garden. Most of the bedrooms of the ground floor have direct access to our outside space, with room for a table and chairs.
The secure, enclosed garden has different areas, including a south-facing lawned area, borders, a greenhouse and raised beds planted and maintained by the residents.
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Crecy Care Home features
Specialist mental health care
Spacious garden with plenty of outdoor seating areas
Independent living onsite through our cottage which is a 5 bed self-contained annexe
Delicious home-cooked meals with a 5 star food rating
Weymouth town minutes away with a range of shops, restaurants and parks
All of our ground floor rooms offer direct access to our stunning gardens
We have a tablet for residents to use to video call family regularly
Daily activities and weekly outings
I live here, and my room is lovely. The staff are very respectful; they help me with kindness. I couldn’t ask for more.
Anthony A (Resident, 2023)
Both my sister and I are delighted with the care that our Mother receives at Crecy. The staff are caring, respectful and well-informed. They are very responsive to the varying needs of my Mother and do not hesitate to keep me up to date with any changes that concern them. They are very well managed and skilled in the uses of various nursing techniques employed at Crecy.
James G (Son of Resident, 2023)
Where to begin is the big question, as I had reservations about Mum going into care, due to all the bad press that circulates about the rouge care homes. Mum has been a resident of Crecy Care Home for eighteen months, when she joined she was a frail, underweight lady that refused help from outsiders, even her GP, as she wouldn’t accept anything was wrong with her. I visited her with my wife recently and was pleasantly surprised, almost shocked, at the big change in her appearance, she has gained weight, is eating three meals a day, accepts help for any medical issues. What the manager and her team have achieved in my opinion is nothing short of a miracle. Mum looks healthy, the best I’ve seen her look in a very very long time. All the staff, from the cleaners up to the top, have all had a part to play in turning her around. Food is excellent, facilities are excellent, the care given to all residents is exceptional. My heartfelt thanks goes out to the team of Crecy Care Home.
Raymond M (Son of Resident, 2023)
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Frequently asked questions
Crecy is one of the few specialist facilities in the south-west dedicated to providing mental health care for younger adults 18+ with complex mental health conditions.
The mental health unit, together with the independent living cottage, provides the ideal setting for those who need ongoing care following their discharge from hospital into less secure accommodation, supporting a large range of mental health issues and problems.
When you move in to our home, you have the option to enjoy mealtimes in the communal areas with other residents, or to enjoy some private time in your room. If you live in the cottage, you have your own kitchen to utilise but also have the option to have food cooked by our chefs in the home itself.
Our expert chefs prepare a daily menu with nutritious options for you to choose from based on your likes and dislikes. Our chefs will always ask for feedback, and are more than willing to adapt menus. We are so proud that our kitchen team have received a 5* ‘Very Good’ rating from the Food Standards Agency.
What’s more, our care teams are always on hand to support and encourage you at mealtimes, ensuring you get the nutrition and hydration needed.
Residents in both units enjoy the greatest freedom possible, combined with the highest levels of mental health care provided by highly experienced and trained team.
The Cottage is a self-contained annexe to our main building with its own bedrooms (mostly en-suite), plus a kitchen, wet room and lounge.
It gives its residents a level of independence, particular to each person, with help on hand when they need it. It also provides ideal community rehabilitation tailored to the people living there.
Our bespoke care and support is available for a single weekly fee. That includes care, accommodation, laundry, meals, housekeeping, social outings and more.
That means no additional charges or hidden fees, just consistent, all-inclusive support for a weekly fee.
Funding may be available from your local authority. Firstly, they will check how much help and what kind of care you need: this is the needs assessment. Following on from that, the free financial assessment calculates the total cost of care and how much you’ll need to contribute.
If you don’t want a financial assessment you can choose to pay for your care home yourself – this is called self-funding.
If you would like to view our home then don’t hesitate to give us a call and we would be happy to arrange a no obligation home visit. Alternatively, we have regular coffee mornings where anyone is able to pop in. This is great opportunity to get to know our team and residents.
Once you become a resident at our home, there are no set visiting hours, so your family and friends are free to come and go as much as they want.