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DAY CARE
Who is Day Care for? |
Who is Day Care for?
Day Care offers a day out to older people*, who are lonely, isolated or confined to their homes because of disability.
This
may be a physical disability - caused for example by a stroke, a mental
health problem such as depression or a cognitive impairment like
dementia. Day Care also provides informal carers (spouses, family
members, friends, neighbours) with regular respite breaks.
*For referral purposes people need to be over 65 years of age.
What is Day Care?
Day
Care is offered to a person on one or more days per week on a
continuous long-term basis. We have no more than 12 people attending
each day and this allows the care and support to be planned especially
to meet the needs of each individual person.
Refreshments are provided throughout the day as well as a two course lunch.
The
most important aspect of day care is that it allows people to socialise
with their peers and activities in day care are planned with this in
mind.
People who use the service can take part in a weekly
programme of exercises, games, group and individual activities. Outings
and other entertainments are arranged throughout the programme. The
activities are agreed with the service users through regular group
meetings as well as through their individual support plans. Three
paid members of staff, together with three to four volunteers per day
provide the care and support to service users as required.
Our Day Care arrangements
We run a specialist Day Care Service for people with a cognitive impairment like dementia as follows:
On
Monday and Friday in The Haven for people from the areas of
Queensferry, Dalmeny, Kirkliston, Newbridge, Ratho and Ratho Station.
We run Day Care for physically disabled older people as follows:
On Tuesdays in The Haven for people from South Queensferry and Dalmeny.
On Wednesdays in Kirkliston Community Centre for people from Ratho and Ratho Station.
On Thursdays in Kirkliston Community Centre for people from Kirkliston and Newbridge.
How to apply for Day Care
For
all our day care groups referrals have to come through the North West
Resource and Referral group. This can be done by calling Social Care
Direct on the following number 0131-200-2324 whereby you or a family
member can make the referral for a day care service. Alternatively your
GP, District Nurse, Social Worker or any other health/social care
worker can refer you to the service using the above route.
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