Personalised, Professional Parkinson’s Disease Care
Parkinson’s is a neurological condition that progresses over time and is characterised by tremors, restricted movement and stiff or rigid muscles. While the disease can be managed or slowed down with medications and treatments, many people and families opt for a dedicated, comfortable care centre with private accommodation to ensure they have the practical, emotional and personal care support they need around the clock.
Forest Healthcare recognises that a Parkinson’s diagnosis can be deeply worrying. It presents individuals and their loved ones with complex and sometimes difficult choices about how to safeguard their health and well-being over the long term. Our superb care teams across our centres provide people with Parkinson’s disease care, friendship, respect and independence over how we deliver the care they require.
Finding Residential Care Support for Parkinson’s Disease
Like many ongoing conditions, Parkinson’s can affect people at varied speeds but commonly leads to balance problems, movement disorders and difficulties with speech during the later stages of the disease. We provide care for residents at any point, whether a healthcare provider has diagnosed Parkinson’s in a person in older age or an individual wishes to settle into a comfy care setting to ensure they have long-term help with daily living.
Our comprehensive care services can help alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms, and we work closely with consultants and Parkinson’s support groups to ensure all treatments and therapies are incorporated into the resident’s customised care planning.
Some of the possible therapies include medication, massage therapy, support from a speech therapist, and other types of treatments.
Forest Healthcare’s Parkinson’s disease care teams are well versed in these and other complementary therapies and provide ongoing support with all care requirements, from companionship, assistance with physical therapy, providing medication reminders and recording and communicating changes in Parkinson’s symptoms.
Different Types of Parkinson’s Disease Care Centres
Parkinson’s disease is progressive. That means that initially, a person may experience minor involuntary movements such as tremors but otherwise feel fine, well and happy to manage without any assistance. As the disease progresses, the brain cells of a person with Parkinson’s disease produce less dopamine, which contributes to difficulty with physical movement.
Most people with Parkinson’s disease are prescribed medications to help alleviate these common symptoms, which can include COMT inhibitors, pain management, MAOB inhibitors, and levodopa therapy, all designed to help the person produce more dopamine or to control other side effects of Parkinson’s.
Depending on the stage of the disease, our residents often benefit from help with managing their medications, ensuring they take the correct doses of each medicine every day, at the right time, and with or without a meal. Ongoing, consistent management can prevent the disease from progressing faster, and ensure the person feels comfortable, and with all the assistance they need to continue enjoying their daily routine.
Residents with more advanced Parkinson’s disease are supported in a number of ways by each 24/7 care team, with facilities, equipment and qualified carers who can soothe anxiety often associated with needing to walk longer distances, or help with bathing, dressing and meal times.
Accessing Specialist Parkinson’s Disease Care Through Forest Healthcare
Each of the below care centres offers expert Parkinson’s disease care, with long-term, private accommodation and a warm, welcoming environment where each resident is treated with respect and kindness.
We invite you or any family member to get in touch for more information about finding compassionate care support for people with Parkinson’s disease or to organise a good time for a personal tour of our fantastic care centres.
| County | Location | Care Centre |
| Hertfordshire | Elstree & Borehamwood | Forest Care Village |
| London | Camden NW5 | Ash Court Care Centre |
| London | Islington N1 | Bridgeside Lodge Care Centre |
| Norfolk | Hingham | Hassingham House Care Centre |
What to Expect From a High-Quality Care Centre Offering Parkinson’s Disease Support
Forest Healthcare is a nationwide group of outstanding residential care facilities, ensuring that families and loved ones have the professional support they need to make Parkinson’s disease easier to manage, and putting the wishes, needs and preferences of the individual at the heart of their care.
Parkinson’s disease may be primarily neurological with physical symptoms but it can impact the mental health of the person, with non-motor symptoms such as potential depression and anxiety, fear of the risk of falling or freezing, and concerns about being able to cope as specific symptoms develop.
We create bespoke care plans for all Parkinson’s disease residents, with a full understanding of levodopa therapy and other treatments they may be prescribed, complementary therapies that help to retain movement for as long as possible and liaise with occupational therapy teams and social workers as relevant.
Our care centres can also provide help with other Parkinson’s side effects, such as orthostatic hypotension, and our experienced care managers can assist where a person with Parkinson’s is experiencing dementia, often Lewy Body dementia which develops in the nerve cells of the brain.
Ongoing assessments, medication tracking, personal care, and emotional support, alongside an inclusive community, diverse calendar of crafts, activities, entertainment and events, and the assistance of our talented carers to help with physiotherapy, can make a world of difference, ensuring a resident with Parkinson’s is safe and well cared for at every stage.
Specialist Care for Neurological Conditions
Forest Healthcare offers a wide range of care services, supporting individuals and their loved ones with injuries, rehabilitation needs, health conditions and physical disabilities. We focus on person-centred care planning and advocate for independence, ensuring our residents have autonomy over how they are supported and where we can add value.
Please contact us today to arrange a good time to talk or schedule a visit to one of our Parkinson’s disease care centres to learn more about the services, care and support we can provide.