AN extra care housing complex could be provided at the site of the former Plas Morolwg flats as part of Ceredigion County Council’s vision for the future of care services, the authority’s leader has said.

While the council has come under increasing fire over the proposal to close Bodlondeb residential home in Penparcau, council leader Ellen ap Gwynn said the authority wanted to see a full mix of care provision, including dementia nursing care.

Speaking during a public meeting into the potential closure of Bodlondeb, she said that while the council is currently in talks with Wales and West Housing Association over a potential extra care facility at Plas Morolwg, she had also asked officers to look into commissioning a third sector or private provider to build a new nursing home to offer nursing and dementia nursing care in the Aberystwyth area.

She said: “Our vision for future care in Ceredigion is a mix of care at home, residential care, dementia residential care, nursing homes and dementia nursing homes.

“To this end we are also moving to modernise the provision in the county by working with the registered social housing providers to develop extra care flats where people retain their independence in flats, which gives them the privacy they need and want, behind their own front door, but ensures that they are also within a close social environment with meals available and within easy reach of care, if and when it is needed.

"We are in initial discussions with Wales and West Housing for an extra care home on the old Plas Morolwg site in Trefechan.

"I also said that, in order to fill the glaring gap in dementia nursing provision, I would ask officers to bring forward a paper on the possibility of commissioning either a third sector or private provider to build a brand new nursing home which would offer both nursing and dementia nursing care in the Aberystwyth area.”

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