Dr Funmilayo Adebayo-Cole
Founder and medical director
Our story
Built for one mother, home to eighty-six
Evermore began with a daughter looking for somewhere her mother would be happy. It is still run by the same family.
Timeline
Twelve years by the water
2012
The search
Dr Funmilayo Adebayo-Cole visits eleven homes in Lagos and Ibadan for her mother. None has a garden she would sit in.
2014
Evermore opens
Twelve cottages and a dining hall on a quiet plot by the lagoon. Her mother moves into cottage number one.
2017
The care wing
Ten assisted suites and a nurses' station staffed day and night.
2020
Through the hard year
No resident goes without a daily video call home. Families still talk about it.
2023
Memory care
A calm garden wing for residents living with dementia, designed with families.
2026
Today
Forty-two homes, 86 residents and a waiting list for garden cottages.
What we believe
Five things we hold to
- 1
Your own front door
Every resident has a lockable home of their own, with their own furniture, photos and routines.
- 2
Choice, every day
When to wake, what to eat, whether to join in. We plan around people, not the other way round.
- 3
Dignity in care
Help is given quietly, with curtains drawn and doors closed, by people residents know by name.
- 4
Families stay close
Visit any day, stay for lunch, call the nurses' station at any hour.
- 5
Honest about limits
We tell families plainly what we can and cannot do, and help them find the right place if it is not us.
People
Some of the faces you will meet
Matron Grace Okonkwo
Head of care
Aisha Bello
Family liaison
Chef Kunle Ajayi
Head cook
Names and roles are invented for this demo.
The place
Four acres on the lagoon
The village sits on a quiet crescent in Victoria Island, behind a wall of palms and flame trees. Shaded paths, all step free, link the cottages to the dining hall, clinic, music room, library, pool and chapel. A boardwalk runs along the lagoon edge for evening walks.
We run on mains power with two generators and a solar and inverter system, so lifts, fans, cold rooms and medical equipment never stop.
Registration and standards
How we are checked
- 1
Registered care home
Registered with the state health authorities, with our certificate on the wall in reception. Registration details are available on request (example).
- 2
Inspected and audited
Unannounced inspections, plus our own monthly audits of medicines, falls, food and cleanliness.
- 3
Trained team
Every carer completes our induction and yearly refreshers in moving and handling, first aid, dementia and infection control.
Come for lunch and see for yourself
Most families decide after one visit. Walk the gardens, meet the nurses, sit in a cottage and stay for lunch in the dining hall. It is free, and there is no pressure.