Assessment Centre for Elderly People with Early Stage Dementia
The innovative Assessment Centre for Elderly People with Early Stage Dementia is at the Fenwick2 Health and Well-being Centre in Lyndhurst and is run by not-for-profit care provider SCA Group. It allows people in the early stages of memory loss to be assessed by a multi-agency team of care workers, mental health workers, community workers, social workers and nurses with a view to providing for their future needs.
The service users attend the centre for one day a week for 12 weeks, allowing the centre to work out a care plan for things such as mobility, care support, medication and benefits.
Feedback has shown that the people attending the centre have benefited from being able to talk to professionals, engage in activities and socialise, while the friends and family members who help to look after them have appreciated the chance to have time away from their caring duties.
The service will run for a year and has been so successful that Fenwick2 is hoping to obtain extra funding to extend it.
Further information about the day centre is available from Wendy Walsh at SCA group on 023 8036 6663.