Marham House care home, Bury St Edmunds
Welcome to Marham House
Move-in offers available
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Marham House is a contemporary residential care home, providing luxurious and comfortable facilities set in private landscaped gardens. Ideally located in the cathedral market town of Bury St Edmunds, Marham House offers first class residential care and dementia care for up to 66 residents.
Marham House offers a warm, safe and friendly environment, with facilities to make you or your loved-one feel at home in our care. Dedicated carers are recruited and trained to provide care and support tailored to your needs. Carers are specially selected for their personal qualities, for being instinctively warm with a natural desire to help others – taking the time to have a friendly chat, reminisce or share a joke. They’ll ensure that you or your loved one continue to enjoy maximum independence as well as 24-hour peace of mind, knowing that all the help and assistance you might need is always at hand.
Our dedicated service, combined with Marham House’s luxurious environment and facilities, mean you or your loved-one can live a full, rich and meaningful life in the company of supportive and like-minded people.
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Features of Marham House
Communal facilities
Shared facilities complementing each private residence:
- Engaging activities programme
- Garden
- Communal lounge
- Hairdressing salon
- Conservatory
Care and support
In addition to residential care, we also offer:
- Personalised care plans
- Dementia care
- Respite care
- Convalescence care
- Huntington's disease
Food and dining
We promote wellbeing through a positive dining experience:
- Nutrition and hydration stations
- Private dining area
- Communal dining area
Life at Marham House
At Marham House care home, we provide quality 24-hour residential care and specialist care for residents with dementia.
We support and develop our colleagues on an ongoing basis to enable them to provide the highest quality care for our residents.
Marham House is purpose-built with care in mind and offers a wide range of features and facilities designed with the very latest technology. This is complemented by high quality interior design:
At our home, we have:
- A dining room on each floor, offering varied daily menu choices
- Coffee shop area and bar area to socialise
- Hair and beauty salon
- Beautiful landscaped gardens, with outdoor seating areas
Marham House is centrally located in the historic town of Bury St Edmunds. We benefit from having local amenities on our doorstep, including:
- Ideally located with good transport links to the centre of Bury St Edmunds and surrounding villages
- A supermarket, shops and places to drink and dine are within a short distance
- West Suffolk Hospital is within 2 ½ miles
- Bury St Edmunds Train station and Bury St Edmunds Golf Club are close by
Marham House care home is a contemporary residential care home, set in luxurious and comfortable surroundings, with 24-hour peace of mind.
We have:
- 66 spacious bedrooms with ensuite facilities
- Fitted furniture and telephone point in bedrooms
- Garden-facing bedroom also available
- Each relaxing bathroom has a spacious assisted bath
- Complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the home
- Some ground floor rooms with patio doors
- Personal laundry service and daily housekeeping
- Landscaped sensory gardens
- Tea-making facilities available to make drinks for you and your visitors
- Cosy lounges with TVs and quiet areas for reading and relaxing
We know how important mealtimes are to our residents, so we always try to make this a sociable and enjoyable experience, whilst recognising individual choice.
Our Chefs understand the nutritional needs of older people and ensure that our meals are prepared using fresh, seasonal ingredients.
We serve tasty, wholesome dishes and involve residents in selecting our menus at a local level. We offer daily choice of meals and cater for special dietary needs and preferences, helping keep our residents healthy and well nourished.
Our Lifestyle Team organises and arranges a variety of opportunities for our residents to enjoy daily activities in our home and in the local community.
Preferred activities, interests and ability are discussed when residents move in and an agreed plan ensures that these requests are fulfilled (wherever possible). Our residents’ suggestions for activities also help shape the planning process.
There are also social events in the home, including themed restaurant evenings, arts and crafts, quizzes and regular entertainers.
Residents can make life at Marham House a hive of activity or as gentle as they wish, with social events in the home and the community arranged together with others.
Health
At Marham House our caring and attentive colleagues work with our residents and their loved ones to create a detailed care plan which ensures our residents individual health and care needs are met.
We know how important it is to care for our residents with the dignity and respect they deserve and this is at the heart of what we do at Martham House care home.
Pricing information
We endeavour to be completely transparent about all our charges and fees. For further information please contact us.
How much does it cost?
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Our current private weekly fee at Marham House is from £1735.58. This can vary due to resident dependency, size of room and location. Our Home Manager and other colleagues will be happy to discuss fees and any other questions you may have about paying for care.
What is included in care home fees?
For many people, moving to a care home is a big decision and it can be difficult to know where to start. Care home fees are based on a range of factors, including specific care needs, which can change over time.
Living in an Anchor care home you can be confident that a single fee covers the cost of your personally tailored 24 hour care and support, utility bills and meals, as well as a fantastic range of daily activities. In an Anchor care home our weekly charge includes:
- cost of personal care
- accommodation
- utilities e.g. heating and light
- all resident catering, meals, snacks and drinks
- laundry undertaken on the premises
- television licence, including for personal use (for residents over 75 only)
- housekeeping services.
The following extra items and services are not covered by the weekly fees, however we can arrange for them to be provided (at an additional cost):
- professional hairdressing
- personal copies of newspapers or magazines
- personal purchases such as stationery, confectionery, toiletries etc.
- clothing, shoes and slippers
- dry cleaning
- private telephone line rental and calls and cable connections.
In the absence of free provision by the NHS, we can also arrange for the following healthcare services to be provided, these will be charged in addition to the weekly fees:
- chiropody
- optometry
- dentistry
- physiotherapy
- other privately arranged healthcare
- care staff accompaniment to regular medical appointments.
No upfront deposit is required at any of Anchor’s care homes to secure a room.
At Anchor we pride ourselves on offering a truly tailored approach to care and therefore need to fully understand your needs to provide you with an accurate fee estimate. Please call us to discuss your specific care needs today. Alternatively we welcome you to visit us to discuss your situation face-to-face.
Want more information on care home fees?
Learning about the different funding options available to you can also help you feel confident in your decisions. Anchor know that securing care home funding can sometimes appear a rather daunting task and so to help we have put together a free guide covering requesting assistance, top up fees and third-party payments.
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One week free Autumn Winter offer
We are offering you an opportunity to receive one week free when you move into one of our participating care homes on a short stay or permanent basis.
Welcoming you
We are currently offering you an opportunity to receive one week free when you move into one of our participating care homes on a short stay or permanent basis. Click here to find out more and read the full details of the terms and conditions of this offer.
We pride ourselves on making sure we understand your loved one – their likes and dislikes, hopes and passions – so you can be sure they enjoy a special and lasting welcome at Anchor. Because your loved ones are our loved ones.
To start your enquiry simply click 'Enquire now' at the top of the page and either call us or complete an online enquiry form.
We know only too well how daunting and emotional the decisions are for everyone when considering care, which is why our team are here to help every step of the way.
We’ll provide you with full details of the home, along with any other information you’d like, such as sample menus and activity schedules, as well as explain how you can arrange a viewing.
Whether you’re looking to stay with us permanently, or for a short break, we’d be delighted to take you on a show round of the home in person. Simply book a visit with the home manager once you’ve made your enquiry.
If you or your loved one doesn’t live nearby or are unable to visit in person we can provide a virtual show round. Either way, we’re keen to show you what daily life is like here and for you to meet our friendly team.
We hope you decide, following your visit, that you or your loved one would like to move into the home, in which case we’ll organise a pre-assessment to make sure we can meet all your care needs.
Our friendly onsite team will discuss every area of moving-in with you in detail to make sure you and your loved-one know exactly what to expect and feel confident, safe and welcomed when coming to live with us.
Before you move in, we will find out if there are any of your possessions that you wish us to place in your room before you arrive. Please bring your family photographs and most treasured possessions to help make your room your home.
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Our care homes are dedicated to helping our residents maintain links in the local area and with their loved ones. We understand how important visits are to help your loved one settle in and we welcome regular visits from family and friends.
We also actively support residents living with us to enjoy visits away from their new home into the local area and to nearby places of interest.
Each of our homes is different and the manager of the care home you’re interested in will provide all the information you need around visiting.
Getting here
Marham House
Simcoe Road, Marham Park, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 6FR
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Don’t the look 👀 great 😊
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