Greenslades Nursing Home in Exeter

What facilities can our Exeter care home offer residents?

Our home provides a comfortable environment where seniors can receive the support they require during later life. We have light and airy bedrooms, which residents are free to decorate with treasured trinkets that remind them of the people and places they love most. Each room is equipped with en-suite bathroom facilities, allowing them to enjoy privacy too.

Greenslades’ communal areas are always full of lively chatter, with our lounges being a firm favourite amongst residents. The comfortable armchairs provide the perfect spot to sit and relax – whether that’s time spent chatting about shared interests, with visiting loved onesb.

There’s also a hairdressing salon, which provides our residents with the opportunity to ensure they always look their very best (and who doesn’t love a good pampering session!). When mealtimes arrive, we gather in our welcoming dining room to enjoy nutritious home-cooked dishes, prepared by our on-site catering team.

Our dementia care home in Exeter has access to special dementia and nursing suites. It has special lighting which brightens and dims according to the natural light and our residents’ movements. Incredibly calming, it helps to promote a much better night’s sleep.

Finally, we’re also fortunate enough to have our own namaste room, with special features including the soothing sounds of water and music, fibre optic lights and peaceful images projected onto the walls. Here, residents can enjoy massages or simply sit and relax during those quieter moments.

What types of activities does your residential care home in Exeter offer?

Fun activities that inspire our residents to enjoy gentle exercise are very important at our nursing home in Exeter - especially for our residents with nursing needs. Whether it’s a spot of yoga to soothing music or shaking pompoms to a faster beat – these sessions bring smiles and laughter. Our gents – and ladies – particularly enjoy a game of armchair football and rugby, as well as skittles and French boules.

Greenslades is often filled with music. A gospel choir regularly comes in from a nearby church, as well as youngsters from the local school who sing for residents. At Christmas, the Bicycle Choir always visit for a special musical treat on two wheels.

Keeping residents connected with the local community is something that we always support them with. Students from the University of Exeter come along to do everything from reading with our residents to playing bingo. Meanwhile, students from Exeter College come to our home every week for work experience. Our residents love their visits and seeing so many fresh faces makes them feel young at heart.

Four-legged friends from The Donkey Sanctuary at Sidmouth in Devon often trot by for a visit. The charity brings its donkeys to Greenslades and other nursing homes in Exeter to spend time with the residents, who absolutely adore them. We also organise trips to the sanctuary in our minibus. Another popular four-legged visitor to Greenslades is Jamie. This gentle giant is a retired greyhound who comes along for some pet therapy.

Every week we hold four religious services at Greenslades hosted by different churches in the area. Exchange students from Devon’s Globe English Centre visit our care for two-week placements. Several residents relish the opportunity to learn about different countries and try their hand at a foreign language.

Meanwhile, for the residents who are more mobile, our team takes them on shopping trips into St Thomas on the outskirts of Exeter.

With many of the nursing home’s residents living with dementia, Ride On, a charity based in Exeter, provides rickshaw rides around the local area. The rides bring such joy to the residents in helping to trigger happy memories of days gone by. They often ride past places they might have worked or where they grew up. Loved ones can enjoy the trips too, and four members of the team are being trained to pilot the rickshaws so that our residents can go out more frequently.

It's fair to say there’s rarely a dull moment at Greenslades – we pride ourselves on being one of the liveliest care homes in Exeter!

Pre-bookable respite care in Exeter

Looking for some additional support for yourself or a loved one while one of you takes a break from providing care? With our pre-bookable respite care service, we can help. Greenslades regularly welcomes residents for temporary stays, where they get to receive the levels of care they need, to the regular high standards.

To find out more about how to book respite care in Exeter, contact our home today on 0139 257 1549 or complete our enquiry form below.

Greenslades Nursing Home price information

It is usual for residents in care homes to contribute to the cost of their own care. Some people have the resources to pay for this in full, whilst others make means-tested contributions.

Our weekly fees are individual to each of our residents and are subject to a pre-admission assessment, which is required to understand the level of care and support needed. Our 2024 weekly care fees for nursing care start at £1,279, but may be in the region of 30% more*. This depends on your care needs and the type of bedroom that is right for you, from our standard rooms through to our premium bedroom options.

*If you require more specialist care such as 1-2-1 support, your weekly fee could be higher.

Visit our Paying for Care page for information on how to pay for care at our nursing home in Exeter, or contact us on 0139 257 1549.