Neurological Care Services

Specialist Neurological Care and Support

Forest Healthcare provides tailored, compassionate, and professional care for residents with neurological conditions and neuro-disabilities. These often complex diagnoses affect every individual differently and at varying speeds, making person-centred, adaptable care essential to ensuring each resident’s care needs are carefully assessed and monitored.

Across our network of comfortable, high-quality residential care settings, we can provide rehabilitative and recovery care for residents who have sustained a neurological injury and long-term care and nursing assistance for individuals with a progressive or chronic condition that impacts their brain and nervous system functions.

The Benefit of Tailored Neurological Care Services

People living with neurological conditions can experience a wide range of symptoms, and we often speak with family members and loved ones keen to understand how best to support their relative following a head injury or accident or when a person has been diagnosed with a neurological disorder.

Our dedicated care teams can assist with a number of neuro-disabilities and conditions impacting adults of all ages, including Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ataxia, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease.

At Forest Healthcare we focus on achieving the best possible outcome for every resident. We liaise with healthcare professionals, doctors, and consultants to ensure we have a full picture of the individual’s well-being, neurological condition, preferences, and personality. This enables our care managers to build a bespoke care plan with input from the individual and their family members.

The right practical care, emotional support, and sensitive personal care can make a tremendous impact, assisting with full rehabilitation where possible or sustaining quality of life. Our specialist neurological care services are provided within warm and friendly residential spaces with a varied schedule of entertainment and events to ensure our residents have opportunities to socialise and maintain hobbies and interests.

Understanding Different Types of Neurological Care

Neurological disorders cover a broad scope and can arise due to a brain injury or condition, with specialist care often necessary to help with the rehabilitation process, assisting residents who need ongoing care to help them regain physical movement and speech. Neuro-disabilities can also have varying severities and may be progressive, where a resident needs routine assistance from care teams they know and trust.

Care services may include:

• Long-term or temporary neurological care during recovery and rehabilitation.
• Nursing care, helping with medication administration, therapies and treatment plans.
• Supplementary support, such as visits from occupational therapists or specialist speech and language therapists.
• Day-to-day practical support with movement, dressing and eating.

Some neurological care residents experience changes to their mood or cognition, particularly where a condition has had more pronounced or sustained impacts on their brain and nervous system. In many cases, a resident with more profound disabilities will benefit from the respect and kindness shown by all our fantastic care teams in preference to remaining in a hospital or clinical setting.

Forest Healthcare provides outstanding quality care services to all residents and can advise on the best settings, care centres or nursing facilities based on the individual needs of the individual.

Accessing Forest Healthcare Neurological Care Services

The centres below all provide neurological care, including specialist care for residents with more advanced care needs. Each centre focuses on comfort and ensuring every resident has as much control as possible over the care they receive and the types of tasks or routines they would like our care teams to help with.Please contact your preferred Forest Healthcare location at any time to talk about the support you require or to arrange a convenient time to visit, meet the local care manager in person and tour the facility and accommodation.

What to Expect From Neurological Care in a Residential Setting

The physical, emotional and functional impacts of a neurological condition or injury can be substantially different for two people, and the assistance they may require will be equally diverse.

Forest Healthcare delivers wholly personalised care and support, and we always begin with a full care needs assessment. This process enables us to identify the amenities and resources each individual will require, log treatment plans, medications or rehabilitation therapies, and record specific needs and preferences such as favourite foods, music and activities.

Our care teams are accustomed to advising and supporting families throughout the process. We can offer independent recommendations, such as finding the best possible neurological care for a loved one leaving the hospital or identifying the right care centre for a person with a more advanced neuro-disability.

We can advise on the moving-in process, the benefits of creating a familiar and welcoming private accommodation space, our daily routines and schedules, and how loved ones can contribute to the care, support, and recovery of their relative. Familiarity and consistency are often essential to helping neurological care residents recover as far as possible.

Whether a resident is with us for the short or long term, we maintain regular contact, monitoring each resident’s well-being, condition and overall health and ensuring that any changes to their needs are acted upon and reflected in updated care planning.

Additional Specialist Care Services From Forest Healthcare

Forest Healthcare has a network of 13 residential care facilities and nursing care centres, many of which offer neurological care and condition-specific support alongside recovery and treatment assistance for adults of all ages.

Our care teams look after the needs and comfort of people with brain injuries, long-term and degenerative conditions, and physical disabilities, concentrating on care planning that respects the autonomy of every resident to contribute to their care management or have a family member represent their preferences, needs and wishes.

Please contact us if you have any questions about neurological care, need help finding the most suitable support for a loved one with neuro-disability, or would like to discuss your needs in confidence.