Derby’s Oldest Nursing Home Ends 2024 on a High After Winning a String of Awards

Brookfields is Derby’s longest-running private nursing home having been converted from a house by Joan and Peter Turner who bought it in 1968. The first resident was Alfred Bowmer, of Bowmer + Kirkland. Since 1994 the home has been managed by Joan and Peter’s daughter, Celeste, with the help of a large team of 58 employees.

The Brookfields’ team includes qualified nurses and is well established with long serving staff members. The home caters for residents with all kinds of needs, from those with simple social requirements to patients with a degree of dementia. It also has a specialism in neurological conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease.

Imaginative staff have come up with video tours of faraway destinations complete with matching food and drink specially sourced so that residents get the feel of a holiday abroad, and activities include  quizzes, exercises, bingo, gardening, flower arranging, cheese and wine tasting, plus trips that residents have asked for during their regular meetings.

Owner Celeste Turner said: “We’re very proud to be recognised for our continuing good work through these awards. At Brookfields it’s central to our ethos that we will look after people to the full until the end of their journey.

“We pride ourselves on providing a very bespoke and comprehensive package for residents which includes social care, nursing and personalised services as needed – and in doing so, we facilitate people to continue to live their normal lives as much as is possible. We want people to enjoy living here as much as in their own home and to live as fulfilled a life as they can.

“We make sure every moment of people’s time here is spent as fully as it can be, doing what they want to do. We treat everyone with respect and dignity and we have people from all walks of life living here.

“I’m delighted and extremely proud that the nursing home started by my parents is still flourishing today – these awards are for all our brilliant staff who come to work with a smile every single day.”