New Forest Home aims to lead dementia care

The first of a series of 15 dementia care homes planned to open across southern and southwestern England over the next five years by Archstone Lifestyle Care, a new sister company to builder of luxury homes for older people Archstone Lifestyle Homes, was officially opened late last year at Verwood in Dorset in an attractive, leafy location on the edge of the New Forest. The new Archstone subsidiary company hopes the way that care is provided at the new Waypoints Verwood home, with residents looked after by staff and nurses expertly trained in dementia care, while still very much able to maintain their own independence, dignity, and choice, could "help influence the UK's approach" to a condition that already affects 700,000 people UK-wide, a figure expected to grow significantly over the next 15 years.