Flexible Dementia Outreach - Medway

Please note, this service is not available outside Age UK Kent Rivers - Head Office's catchment area.

Age UK Kent Rivers
Second Floor South, Fitted Rigging House (South )
Anchor Wharf
The Historic Dockyard
Kent
ME4 4TZ
United Kingdom

Email: enquiries@ageukkentrivers.org.uk
Telephone: 01634 572616

Age UK Kent Rivers offer a Dementia Outreach Service, where flexible activity-based support for people diagnosed with dementia or with memory concerns is provided in the comfort of their own home in Medway and Faversham.

About Flexible Dementia Outreach

The Flexible Dementia Outreach Service is provided under our Homecare provision and is designed to enable individuals living with dementia or memory concerns to be supported in continuing to pursue their interests, take part in meaningful activities, maintain their independence and retain or develop social contacts.

Trained support workers will spend quality time with each person on a weekly or fortnightly basis, helping reduce social isolation and retain or regain links with their local community.

Our ethos is to understand the person with dementia, and allow them to be themselves in a safe, non-medical and stimulating environment. This gives their carer valuable respite time, reducing the potential for crisis intervention.

Service aims

By allowing a person to remain at home longer, enabling them to retain daily living skills and independence, and by giving them a sense of achievement and purpose, disruptive or challenging behaviour can be alleviated.

The service aims to:

✓ Build relationships
✓ Promote confidence
✓ Maintain independence
✓ Reduce isolation
✓ Improve daily living skills
✓ Encourage hobbies and interests
✓ Enhance wellbeing.

How to refer

The service is administered from our office in the Historic Dockyard, Chatham. It is for people aged 55 and over and living in the Medway and Faversham areas.

Referrals can be made by any Health and Social Care Professional or by yourself or family.