Kirkcaldy Abbeyfield Society
Our Care Home, Abbeyfield House, situated in a residential part of Kirkcaldy, has two pleasant dining rooms and comfortable lounges, one overlooking the attractive well-tended gardens. This gives a wonderful space for living and socialising or sitting outside, weather permitting. The garden houses a summer house, greenhouse and various seating areas and our gardeners are always glad of a bit of extra help!
Our fully trained care staff provide 24 hour care, seven days a week, while all staff are here as part of the team to meet our residents needs. Food is prepared by our own chefs and choices of meals are available on a daily basis. We have minibuses that take residents on outings to local places of interest or events and sometimes further afield for short holidays.
Our "Abbey Cottage" Day Centre is a purpose designed bungalow with a lovely sitting room, a fully equipped bathroom for assisted bathing and fully adapted toilets. The kitchen provides re-enablement facilities for people to practice the skills they need at home.
We also provide specialised dementia support, both in the care home itself and on a day support basis including providing advice and support to families/carers.
COVID-19
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have had to curtail or modify some of our activities in line with the restrictions laid down by the Care Inspectorate and Government guidelines.
Much has been done by all staff to assist residents to lead as full life as possible using technology to keep everyone in touch with families, particularly when visiting was not possible. All efforts have been concentrated on keeping our residents safe and well throughout and we continue to support both residents and families as the situation changes.
We have maintained a service to all our outreach customers and have maintained contact and provided support where practical to our Day Support service users during the period it has had to remain closed. Additionally we have been able to provide extra support to many people in their own homes particularly during the initial stages of lockdown.