A BASINGSTOKE care home is celebrating having achieved accreditation for a new standard of dementia care, called ‘10-60- 06’.

Marnel Lodge care home, in Carter Drive, Popley was presented with the accreditation in April after successfully implementing significant improvements to the personalised dementia care services it offers and the way staff are trained to better understand what it means to be living with dementia.

The ‘10-60-06’ training and accreditation programme was developed and trialled by the Dementia Team at Barchester Healthcare, a care provider with more than 200 homes across the country.

It will replace the company’s current dementia care programme in order to ensure the care services provided in Barchester’s Memory Lane Communities for people living with dementia are the best in the sector.

Marnel Lodge was visited in April by a dementia care specialist who found the home had met all the new standards and the announcement of the accreditation ties in with this week being Dementia Awareness Week.

General manager at Marnel Lodge Sue Monger said: “The changes we have made to our dementia care services have made a big difference to the lives of those we care for.

“It is noticeable that people are being supported in a more person-centred way and staff have embedded what they learned into their everyday work.”