Songs of Praise presenter Pam Rhodes sang the praises of the new dementia care home as she opened Maison de Quetteville. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0857431)

AFTER 10 years in the making, a new care facility for Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers opened on Saturday.

Maison de Quetteville was completed after the Maison Million Home Appeal, launched by the Guernsey Press in 2007, raised just over £1m.

BBC Songs of Praise presenter Pam Rhodes, who is patron of Methodist Homes for the Aged, officially opened the home.

In a speech to those who had been involved in the creation of the 29-bed facility, she said that a society could be judged by how it treated its most vulnerable.

‘I can’t tell you how lovely it is to be here. We all worry about what life is going to look like when we’re older.

‘We would want the kind of facility that is on offer here,’ she said.

The presenter said it was a wonderful achievement.

‘The appeal means that people have raised money not just with big donations, but also in pounds and pence during the credit crunch.’

Bob Harbottle, a director of Methodist Homes for the Aged, which is behind the project, said they had waited a long time to open the facility.