Yarnton Residential and Nursing Home in Oxfordshire

What types of care do we provide?

One of Sanctuary Care’s four homes in Oxfordshire, we provide residential, dementia, nursing and palliative end of life care. Our registered nurses can support with everything from rehabilitation following a stroke to caring for people with neurodegenerative conditions, such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s disease. 

Yarnton is a home for life with a team who can meet changing and increasing support needs for residents. We can provide nursing interventions for those with progressive and/or life-limiting and terminal conditions.

We also offer short stay and long term pre-bookable respite care packages, giving older people caring for loved ones, and children looking after elderly parents in our Oxford community, a well-earned carer break.

Features of our nursing home

The main lounges overlook the gardens, and there are also smaller quiet areas to relax in.

The spacious bedrooms are all en-suite with walk-in showers. Our ground floor rooms have private patio doors leading to the grounds, while many overlook fields and woodlands.

In our dining rooms, our residents enjoy delicious home-cooked meals, and freshly baked sweet treats which are served each day with afternoon tea.

What are the gardens like?

The beautiful gardens have raised flowerbeds, a large greenhouse and wheelchair friendly pathways, so are wonderful for our frail residents or those who require nursing support. We even have a gardening club, where we grow a range of bedding plants, which during ‘normal times’ we sell to the community around Oxfordshire. The club is run and managed by our residents, giving them a real sense of pride and purpose.

A highlight of the garden is our two rabbits, Arrow and Fudge.

Coming soon we will have an outdoor visitors’ ‘pod’, which will be used for loved ones to enjoy pre-bookable visits.

What is the activities programme like?

Over the past few months, so many of the team have been popping in on their days off, supporting with activities or doing a spot of gardening or music therapy. 

We had a fantastic VE Day party last year, as well as a two-month ‘virtual’ summer cruise. In the heart of the home, we re-created holiday hotspots from across the globe, with themed cuisine and activities.

During ‘normal’ times children from the neighbouring school often join us for arts and crafts or to treat us a sneak preview of a choral performance. 

A mobile hairdresser also visits for appointments in our hairdressing salon.

Other popular visitors are creatures that come in for animal therapy sessions. For those with greater palliative care needs, who are more frail or with late-stage dementia, these visits can take place at their bedside if this is more comfortable.

We have also encouraged visitors and relatives to bring their well-behaved pets to see us as part of daily life. Spending time with animals can bring back such fond memories. This is wonderful for our residents who live with Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia and different types of dementia or memory loss.

We also support our residents to stay connected to their family members and friends over video calls using the home’s iPad. With our support, many of our senior residents are really enjoying becoming more tech-savvy in their older age!

Trips out in our minibus

We have our own minibus for trips out. Previously, we have loved visiting garden centres and museums across Oxford, including Woodstock and Blenheim, Millets Farm in Frilford and The Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary in Stadhampton.

Another popular spot to visit is the car museum in Bourton-on-the-Water.

Pre-bookable respite care at Yarnton

Call our home today on 01865 849 195 or complete our Yarnton enquiry form for more information on how to book respite care in Oxfordshire.