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Services in North Somerset
• Support Worker• Singing for the Brain• Memory café• Memory café with Music and Dance• Carer Support • Befriending and telephone befriending• Forget me Not sessions• Self supporting groups• Post Diagnosis support
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North Somerset Dementia Support
Worker Service
Work with people with dementia, carers and
families to improve understanding of dementia.
•Provide one-one support in the person’s home.
•Provide information on the behavioural changes a person with dementia may experience and offer a range of techniques and strategies that may help.
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North Somerset Dementia Support
worker service
• Signpost to other relevant support• Support people to make informed decisions
about legal and future care arrangements.• Provide information about benefits available.• Work in partnership with other statutory &
voluntary services.
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Singing for the Brain Aims:• Structured group session• Music therapy & singing• Incorporates social interaction• Peer support• Engagement• Active participation
Quote from a carer:
“I walked in with Mr Grumpy, sat with Mr Show-off and went home with Mr Happy”
Weston-super-Mare Mondays from 10.30am-12
Clevedon
Tuesdays from 2-3.30pm
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Memory Cafe• A Memory Café is a place
where people with dementia and their carers can be together in a safe, welcoming and non-medical environment in the company of others
• To have a ‘café style’ environment
• They can gain information and support
• Take part in activities
Held at Sandford Station
Thursdays fortnightly from 2.30 – 4pm
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Memory Café Outcomes
• Helps break down the isolation and stigma people with dementia often have to deal with
• Provides a social activity for carers and cared for together in an accepting, safe environment, given a sense of normality
• Encourages volunteering• Supports carers of people with dementia• Socialisation will encourage people with dementia
to interact with more people.
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Memory Café with Music & Dance
Aims:
• Enables & supports social interaction with the specific intention of reducing social isolation.
• To help people with dementia and their families to feel part of society.
• Opportunities for peer support
• Stimulation & exercise
• Provides information
“My wife remembers her dance steps even when she doesn’t remember what she did yesterday”
The group runs fortnightly on a Wednesday at
Tickenham Village Hall
from 4pm – 5.45pm
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North Somerset Carer Support Groups Provide:• An opportunity for carers to discuss shared issues• Peer support• Hints & tips from other carers and Dementia Support
Worker
An on-site service with activities is provided for people with dementia to enable their carer to attend.
Groups are held once a month:
1st Thursday 6.30pm – 8.30pm at Ebdon Court in Worle
Last Tuesday 6.30pm – 8.30pm at Windmill House, Kenn
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Befriending & Telephone Befriending
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North Somerset Forget-Me-Not Sessions
• Held in various GP surgeries across the locality
• Encourages people with concerns about their memory or that of a family member to make an appointment for an informal chat.
• Can lead to further investigations by GP and onward referral to memory assessment services where appropriate.
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SELF-SUPPORTING GROUPSDementia Support Workers have helped set up the
following self-supporting groups. Alzheimer’s Society is not responsible for running these but pop in from time to time.
• Younger People’s Walking Group.
• Daughter’s Group
• Former Carers Group
• Yatton Coffee Morning
• Backwell Coffee Morning
• Clevedon Coffee Morning
• Portishead Coffee Morning coming soon
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Post Diagnostic Support
• CrISP
Carer Information & Support Programme
• Memory Matters
Two information sessions for people recently diagnosed and their carer, family or friends.
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OTHER LOCAL ORGANISATIONS WHO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND
THEIR CARERS
– Weekly Lunch club twice weekly for couples in Worle
– Relief care & Sitting Service
– Domiciliary Care
– Memory Café at Ebdon Court twice monthly
– Day centre, Kenn
RETHINK MENTAL ILLNESS RECONNECT FLOATING SUPPORT:
– Housing-related support including assistance with budgeting, advice on maintaining the home, information on activities to help avoid social exclusion, support to access services.
Contact for further information
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Other services provided by the Alzheimer’s Society
• National Helpline 0300 222 1122Mon –Friday 9-5 ; Weekends 10-4
• Talking Point: alzheimers.org.uk
• Help cards
• Publications & Fact sheets- downloadable
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Contact - Alzheimer's Society Dorset & Somerset Locality Ebdon Court Trenleigh Drive Worle Weston-super-Mare BS22 6LT
Tel 01934 514977