Partnership Care
Care in Altadore is delivered on a partnership basis. Our team led by Rachel Gallogly (Director of Nursing), resident’s families and healthcare experts collaborate to provide the very best for residents.
Long and short term care can be provided. The best way to decide if Altadore is right for you is to visit and speak to the team. We will give you a tour and bring you through the process from start to finish.
Altadore is a modern facility where you can be confident that residents’ happiness and wellbeing is our focus every day. Altadore is very peaceful and residents have access to all the floors. It’s often the little things that mean a lot and the highly experienced team care for our residents to the highest standards and take the time to get to know and understand exactly how they like things to be.
Dementia Care
Services
The team at Altadore is second to none. This team includes the Assistant Director of Nursing, Clinical Nurse Manager, Nurses, Healthcare Assistant Managers and Healthcare Assistants.
Additional services are offered privately as appropriate including from a physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, tissue viability nurse, dietician, chiropodist. Our inhouse hairdresser is also available to all residents.
Inhouse GP Service
Residents will have access to our inhouse GP and his team.
Doctor Geraint Warlow MB BCh (Wales) BSc (Wales) PGDip (Warwick) MRCGP is the clinical lead for the GP service which is the only Irish GP clinic dedicated to residents of nursing homes.
A balanced and tailored approach to care is taken. What is right for one resident, may not be right for the next. The team are here to listen to everyone – firstly the residents but also those around them to find the right path and anticipate and work through some of the challenges ahead.
Doctor Geraint Warlow has a keen interest in complex care and medicine for the elderly.
Nurse Sarah Toland RN (TCD) RNP works alongside Dr Geraint Warlow and has worked in general practice for 14 years. She provides chronic disease care including diabetes, asthma and COPD. Sarah coordinates the in-house bone health service and is a registered nurse prescriber.
Infection Control
The safety of residents and team is our priority at Altadore. There is regular contact with the HSE, HIQA and other healthcare experts.
Full training in infection prevention and control measures is in place and there is easy access to PPE.