About Wesleyhaven Village
It’s about feeling at home!
At Wesleyhaven we focus on people not profit.
We help older people achieve and maintain a quality of life they control and enjoy.
We acknowledge peoples’ lifestyles and experiences and help them to ‘feel at home’ and part of a wider community.
Since opening in 1953 as one of the first retirement villages in New Zealand, Wesleyhaven has established a proud reputation of high quality care combined with a willingness to find new and innovative ways of working. Wesleyhaven has been a home to over 5,000 elderly people and provides on the one site a full continuum of care, ranging from independent living in Rental Villas to supported care in Strand and Deckston Rest Homes and continuing care in Wesley Hospital.
The Village with its extensive gardens and glorious views is a quiet oasis nestled amongst the hills of the Eastern Hutt Valley.
Philosophy
WesleyCare Services for Older People works with older adults in the community and within Wesleyhaven to help them achieve and maintain a quality of life they control and enjoy. We provide services for older people that are life enhancing, complement individual lifestyles and maximise peoples’ potential. We unconditionally value and honour each person as a contributing member of the community recognising that each person is an expression of a particular culture, social network, environment and life experience. We also recognise that people have spiritual, social, sexual, emotional, physical and intellectual needs throughout their lifespan.
Our services are designed to enable the person to feel a sense of dignity, well being, uniqueness and a purpose for living by:
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providing care that respects people’s independence and need to exercise control over their lives;
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providing the opportunity for people to make and maintain meaningful relationships and by supporting existing social networks and primary carer relationships;
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supporting and encouraging the development of existing abilities;
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creating environments that provide for personal choice, space and dignity, and;
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maintaining connections with the local community.
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Our staff take great care and pride in their excellent standard of service where each person’s unique needs, tastes, safety and comforts are top priority. Whilst a rest home is seldom considered a replacement for a person’s own home, we aim to assist people to feel ‘at home’, to make connections with others if they so choose and to feel part of a wider community in our friendly facilities.
Environment
Wesleyhaven Village is now home to over one hundred older people. Some because we cater for their specific needs, others have chosen to live with us specifically because of the wonderful gardens, very real and friendly atmosphere, and the village’s ability to offer a continuum of quality care on the one location. In 1953 it was one of the first retirement villages in New Zealand and is the largest facility in the Hutt Valley. Since the fifties approximately 5000 people have lived in and participated in the life of this vibrant village.
The largest asset of the village is the staff. They are an experienced and committed group, many of whom have been at the village for decades. Some represent multi-generations of the same families. Our ratio of staff to residents is excellent and research tells us that the level of care is amongst the best in the region. For many village residents – the staff have become their family.
A relatively new move in the village is towards an inclusive and holistic community approach. This is an evolution of the work Wesleyhaven currently does connecting residents to the village community and reconnecting them to the wider community.
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Contact Us
Wesleyhaven Village
phone (04) 567 8766
fax (04) 567 6959
249 Rata Street
Naenae
Hutt City 5011