Multimillion-Pound Dementia Care Home Will Be Built This Year

A multimillion-pound care home for dementia sufferers will be built in Aberdeen this year. The £6million facility in the city’s Rubislaw Park Road is to be built by the Church of Scotland’s social care arm, CrossReach.

Work on Rubislaw Park House, which will include rooms for 64 residents, is expected to be completed by June.

The site formerly housed another Church of Scotland care home, which was closed in 2003.

The old Rubislaw Park home was forced to shut after running at a loss and being deemed no longer fit for purpose due to health and safety reasons.

Residents at the time moved from the care home into Ashley Lodge, in Aberdeen’s Great Western Road, and Fergus House, in Fergus Place, Dyce.

CrossReach project planning officer Nigel Glover said: “It is important that dementia sufferers are cared for in safe and appropriate surroundings – ones that meet the specific needs that this degenerative condition requires.

“CrossReach has been working for some years on developing a new facility on the site, one that would meet and exceed legislative and social care standards, while continuing to meet the needs of older people in the area.

“The church has provided care for older people in Aberdeen for over 50 years and there has always been a strong desire that this continue.”

Mr Glover also confirmed that residents and staff at Ashley Lodge, which is also owned by the Church of Scotland, will now move into the development when it opens.

The Church of Scotland then hopes to sell off the Ashley Lodge site.

The new two-storey building has been designed by Aberdeen architects Jenkins and Marr alongside CrossReach and the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University.