Alex Wood House is an exceptional residential care home in Cambridge. At Alex Wood House we pride ourselves on our family-feel, attractive gardens and providing outstanding care to each of our residents. We’re based in a quiet nook in Arbury on the north eastern side of Cambridge, three miles from the city centre. Our home offers 24-hour residential care and 36 en-suite bedrooms.
We have two residential care homes in Cambridge, as well as care facilities in March, Peterborough, Kings Lynn and Ipswich.
If you’d like more information on any of our care homes, request a brochure here.
Making every moment matter is just as important to us as the standard of care we deliver at Alex Wood House. Our main focus is ensuring that our residents’ needs are at the heart of everything we do. When a new resident joins us, we invest time in understanding their life story, their hobbies and the important people in their lives. We use this information to encourage our residents to live life the way they choose, with laughter and love.
Residents are encouraged to personalise their bedrooms by bringing furniture from home and our dedicated maintenance team are on hand to hang pictures and photographs to create a ‘home from home’.
Regular feedback forums give residents and family members the opportunity to suggest new experiences, outings and events, ensuring that our activities programme is varied, engaging, and reflects the choices and interests of our residents.
Alex Wood House is a residential, respite, and dementia care home, Cambridge. It is vital that our accessible activities programmes promote inclusivity and are continuously adapted and reviewed for the changing needs of our residents. You can view an example activity calendar here.
We strive for new and creative ways to meet the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual needs of our residents, including some of them starring in this brochure! Our regular clubs include gardening, exercise classes, quizzes and church services and we use our links with local schools and nurseries, churches and businesses to enhance our resident experience. We also know how to throw a good party and can often find the residents and team dancing and singing along to live entertainment.
Keep up to date with all of the activities and community news for Alex Wood House, Cambridge, on Facebook.
Our freshly home cooked meals play a central role in the resident experience here at Alex Wood House. Seasonal menus are designed with the help of our residents at regular food forums, and our menus can be easily adapted to ensure we cater for all dietary needs. If the residents fancy something a little different, we’re pleased to be able to further enhance our menus by offering light bites and alternative choices.
We work closely with local suppliers to make sure we have the very best quality produce to offer, and our creative kitchen team enjoy using food to offer new experiences and world cuisines to the residents.
You can see an example menu here.
Julie has worked in the care sector for 25 years, starting as a care assistant and working her way up to home manager. She has been manager at Alex Wood House for the past seven years and was deputy manager prior to that.
Julie loves the fact that Alex Wood House is a small home which allows her and her team to provide a friendly, family atmosphere with excellent person-centred care.
She enjoys getting to know everyone well, her residents, their relatives and friends as well as the team working at the home. Julie’s door is always open if you have anything you want to discuss with her.
Being sustainable and reducing our impact goes hand in hand with our mission to provide exceptional care to our residents. Since 2021 we’ve planted 5 trees for every new resident and we continuously work to source our food locally, improve our efficiency and much more.
You can find out much more about what we do on our sustainability page here.
24 hour care, most activities, all meals and non-alcoholic drinks are all included in your fee.
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There may be other chargeable fees, but your home will let you know about these. For more information please visit our FAQ page here.
Weekly Fee Guidance*:
Our fees at Alex Wood House typically range from £1,530 to £2,000 per week depending on specific care needs.
* Please note that fees are for guidance and are subject to assessment of care needs and room choice.
Controlling infection outbreaks as soon as they appear is vital, the quicker the reaction, the sooner we can stop the spread. Alex Wood House is dedicated to protecting its residents from any infection. With the recent pandemic, we have stepped up our infection control measures.
