Tilford Care and Nursing Home

Tilford Care and Nursing Home in Farnham, Surrey

Tilford Care Home near Farnham in Surrey is a real home for life in a beautiful, tranquil spot, providing high-quality, affordable residential, nursing, respite, palliative and dementia care.

We respect all our residents – their dignity, their space, and their right to make personal choices in care. Each resident is different, and we offer a range of activities and menu options so every person feels happy, stimulated and cared-for.

When someone arrives at Tilford, they immediately become part of the Agincare family. We care for them and help them maintain their independence, decision-making and control as much as they can.

Tilford is their home, and we support their changing physical and emotional needs so they can stay here as long as they want to.

We maintain that living with dementia is exactly that: living. We strive to help our residents have the best quality of life possible, and treat everyone as an individual.

As well as caring for our residents we care about their families too. Our door is always open for a chat, and our families’ forum gives relatives a way to support each other.

Call us on 01252 792 543 to arrange a visit or for an informal chat. We would love to introduce you to the home, our staff and our residents.

Care home facilities

Tilford is fully equipped to deal with a range of needs and requirements. But because we want Tilford to feel like ‘home’, we don’t furnish our communal rooms in a clinical way. Our comfortable lounges and dining room mean there is plenty of space for group activities, or somewhere to find a quieter spot.

We are really excited about the refurbishment taking place now at Tilford. As well as redecorating, an extension will mean we can offer places to 12 new residents.

We’ll also have free Wi-Fi throughout the home. There will be an iPad for residents to use – Skype calls will work really well – and for families to use when they visit.

Visitors will be able to bring in their own devices and use our Wi-Fi to show loved ones videos and photos, and to play games. And we’ve no doubt that the Wi-Fi will prove very popular with the children of visiting families!

The bedrooms

We have 50 spacious bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms or washbasins in the room. The rooms without en-suites have accessible bathrooms or wet-rooms nearby.

As part of our refurbishment, our bedrooms are being decorated to a high standard, but we encourage our residents to personalise their rooms with their own photos and furniture. Personal possessions help residents feel at home, and provide extra stimulation and time for reminiscence.

The garden

We have a secure garden where residents can join in outdoor activities or simply enjoy being outside. Our lovely courtyard is an especially popular place to sit and chat.

Our grounds include a most beautiful aviary. We’ve hand-reared all the birds in the aviary (cockatiels and budgies) from eggs. The flock is delightful to watch. We often spot residents in the summer illegally feeding them with the odd biscuit!

Staff at our Farnham care home

Lisa Kirtland is the registered manager of Tilford and the Deputy Manager is Dawn Sturt.

Some examples of how our staff go the extra mile for our residents:

• Staff come in on their days off to help with outings and events, even bringing their children to help or join in
• After heavy work and paperwork they still manage to find time to interact with our residents and build on relationships within the home and those connected to it
• We’re always keeping an eye out for new activity ideas and possible visitors to the home for the residents’ enjoyment

Staff training

All our staff go on an intensive three-day Agincare training course before starting at Tilford.

As well as regular reviews and supervisions we carry out mandatory annual and two-year refresher training, plus specialist training including subjects such as dementia, Alzheimer’s, stroke care and Parkinson’s.

Social activities

At Tilford we’re lucky to have a great activities co-ordinator, who works with people one-to-one, and organises the group activities.

Our activity schedule is varied, from music, to book and film clubs, quizzes, arts and crafts and storytelling. Our residents get fully involved in suggesting new activities and trips, and we make the most of our minibus!

So the people we care for are connected, not isolated, we like to be part of the local community. We have strong connections with the local Church of England, Catholic and multi-denominational churches, and they visit us regularly. And we also have links with local schools.

Food and nutrition

Good, wholesome home-cooked food is essential at a care home.

Here at Tilford we’re incredibly lucky to have two amazingly talented chefs, who cook with locally-sourced ingredients as much as possible. Our ‘theme days’, such as ‘sausage day’ and ‘pie day’ are very popular!

We serve three main meals a day and mealtimes are really important. We encourage our residents to eat together as there are so many social and nutritional benefits.

However, people can choose to eat their meals in private too, if they prefer. We have picture and written menus, but we always re-offer before serving, to check our residents haven’t changed their minds about what they’d like to eat.

Our chefs always ask for feedback from our residents, including through our residents’ forum, and are more than willing to adapt menus.

Our kitchen staff have received a 5* ‘Very Good’ rating from the Food Standard Agency.

Read more about food and nutrition in our care homes.

If you’d like to find out more about Tilford and how we could support you or a family member, please call us on 01252 792 543 .