About the home
A small residential home in Patrington, East Yorkshire.
Allendale House was established in 2019 as a residential care home for older adults. We are deliberately small — the point of a residential home is that it runs at the pace of a household, not the pace of a ward.
Care planned with the resident, not for them.
Everything we do is built on a short sentence from our philosophy: our home provides service based on consultation and assessment of the resident’s needs. It sounds formal until you sit in on one of those conversations.
We listen first — to the resident themselves, and to the family and anyone else with a real interest in how their days go. Assessments balance risk and need rather than reaching for the safest-possible default. We promote responsible risk-taking in daily living, because a little risk — talked through, agreed in advance — usually buys a much better quality of life. The care plan comes out of that agreement and follows the shape of the actual day, not a template.
Families often tell us it’s a small thing that makes the difference: staff who already know which side of the dining room mum prefers, or the order dad likes his tablets. The small things are the home.
The things we’d want to tell you on a visit.
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Deliberately small
Staff know residents by name, by habit, and by what kind of day they’re having. That only works at our scale.
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Home cooking
Meals are prepared in the house. Menus flex around residents’ preferences — a taste from home means more than most things.
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Families welcome
Visiting is not by appointment. Drop in on a Saturday morning and the kettle will still be on.