The Schoen Clinic Group has opened Wellen Court, Schoen Clinic York, a nursing home with 24/7 care for people with complex dementia and its associated behaviours.

The home caters to privately funded patients and local authority referrals, with facilities including 20 en suite private rooms with Wi-Fi, dining terrace, TV lounge, multi-faith areas, a hairdressing salon, a lift and disabled access.

The environment is designed to be dementia-friendly, including low window sills and wide-opening doors, and dementia-friendly crockery and cutlery sourced from specialist suppliers.

The home employs around 50 staff including dementia carers and specialists, chefs and catering staff, nurses, healthcare professionals and occupational therapists.

Adam Bloor, Schoen ‘s UK clinical director, said: “We would like Wellen Court to be a hub of the community supporting residents with complex dementia and their families and carers. We want our service users to be as independent as possible with the flexibility to have support if they should need it. Our service users are at the heart of everything we do.

“Our service to our residents is based around what they enjoy doing. There are no set visitor times, encouraging family and friends to come and spend as much time with their loved ones as they wish including children and pets, and they can do so in the privacy of  one of our multi-purpose rooms if that suits best.”

The Schoen Clinic Group was founded in 1985 and has developed into Germany’s fifth-largest privately-owned hospital group. It currently treats more than 300,000 patients annually at 46 hospitals and clinics in Germany and the UK. The group also includes the online telemedicine clinic MindDoc. Schoen Clinic entered the UK healthcare market in 2017.