Praise for new OAP care flats
South Wales Argus: 23 February 2006
(by Lizzie Smith)
(Pictures courtesy of Seren Group)
 A CARE scheme which helps elderly residents keep their independence, opened in Blackwood.
Residents of the Cefn Glas Extra Care scheme, in Highfields, will live in self-contained flats with extra support similar to a traditional care home.
Nurses are based on the site 24 hours a day and all flats have alarms to summon help.
The residents share a library, bowling area and computer room. They have their own cooking facilities but can eat meals in the communal dining area, or have them brought to their flats.
Former Risca councillor Clwyd James, 90, is one of the first residents.
He said: “All the residents here are truly enjoying their lives. The staff and residents ensure that everybody is welcome and for me there is no better place. More should be built.”
The scheme is the first of its kind in Caerphilly borough and is the result of a partnership between Caerphilly Borough Council and Newport-based Seren Group.
 Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock, who opened the scheme last week, said: “For too long and for too many older people, traditional residential care has meant saying goodbye to their independence and privacy.
“Now schemes like Cefn Glas are able to give people the confidence to live their lives the way they want, independently and on their own terms, safe in the knowledge that help is on hand if needed.”
Caerphilly County Borough Council Leader: Councillor Harry Andrews, said: “Cefn Glas is a first-class and high quality scheme.”
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