Elderly Care Advice
Dementia UK
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
Telephone: 0800 888 6678
Website: www.dementiauk.org
Age UK
Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.
Telephone: 0800 678 1602
Website: www.ageuk.org.uk
Alzheimer’s Society
Alzheimer’s Society believe passionately that life doesn’t end when dementia begins. They are here for anyone affected by dementia, and they do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Telephone: 0333 150 3456
Website: www.alzheimers.org.uk/
Next Steps
Next Steps helps you to find the right support, at the right time, while waiting for your memory assessment appointment.
Website: www.nextsteps.org.uk
Milton Keynes Community Alarm and Telecare Services
Community Alarms work through the telephone to enable people to call for help if they fall, or are taken ill. Telecare works in conjunction with the alarm unit offering a range of wireless sensors that help to manage risks to a person’s health and well being in their own home.
Sensory Advice Resource Centre
We provide services for adults and children with a sensory loss living in Milton Keynes.
Services for people with hearing loss - Find out more
Services for people with sight loss - Find out more
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross provide support at home, transport and mobility aids to help people when they face a crisis in their daily lives.
Homecare Laundry MK
Milton Keynes Council’s Laundry Service operates a professional service across the Milton Keynes area, for anyone who has a current care need or requires short term support with their washing and ironing.
The Herbert Protocol
For people living with dementia at risk of going missing.
The Herbert Protocol is a form that carers, family or friends of a vulnerable person, or the person themselves can fill in.
It contains a list of information to help the police if the person goes missing, including:
- medication required
- mobile numbers
- places previously located
- a recent photograph
Find the form here
The Silver Line
The statistics about older people and loneliness are frightening. More than half of all 75 year olds in the UK live alone and one in ten suffers “intense” loneliness but are reluctant to ask for help.
The Silver Line is a helpline for older people – the Silver Generation. We have no strict age limits but most people we speak to are over 65. So, if you think it’s for you, it’s for you. Free phone support 24 hours a day.
Telephone: 0800 4708 090
Website: www.thesilverline.org.uk
Dementia Friendly Football
Admiral Nurses Dementia Friendly walking Football for Men and Woman.
Have a look at the poster.
For more information, including how to sign up email - AdmiralNurseTeam@milton-keynes.gov.uk
Admiral Nurses - Dementia UK
Admiral Nurses help families manage complex needs – considering the person living with dementia and the people around them.
Click here for more information on the drop in clinics.