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This leaflet has been compiled by Warwickshire County Council’s Locality Working Team in Rugby Activities and support for people [email protected] living with dementia 01788 533656 www.facebook.com/rugbycommunities

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Do you know about any other services or activities for people living with dementia in Rugby Borough? Please email [email protected] or call 01788 533656 with any changes. This leaflet along with all others produced by the team are available to download from: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/rugbyareainformation

Note: We provide the information for you in good faith and make every effort to keep it accurate and up to date but we cannot guarantee this and so it is your responsibility to check the accuracy of the in Rugby Borough information before use. Some of the information may be provided by a third party or have links to external sites. We are not responsible for this content and, again, you need to satisfy yourself that the September 2019 information is correct. Fourth Edition USEFUL CONTACTS Dementia Support and Services across Warwickshire:

There are two key services that enable people to access all other post diagnosis dementia support: Living well with Dementia: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/dementia

Dementia Navigator Service Alzheimer’s Society: www.alzheimers.org.uk/

Face to face service includes: National Dementia Helpline: 0300 222 11 22  Signposting and referral to appropriate post diagnosis support and services, at all stages of dementia Dementia UK: www.dementiauk.org  Advice and emotional support to people with dementia and carers Dementia UK Helpline: 0800 888 6678  Support, advice and information to those with concerns about their memory, and / or through the diagnostic process. Dementia Action Alliance: www.dementiaaction.org.uk/

Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends: www.dementiafriends.org.uk/ 01926 888899 / [email protected] Rugby Dementia Support: www.rugbydementiasupport.org.uk 01788 576854

Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia website Age UK Warwickshire: www.ageuk.org.uk/warwickshire/

Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action: www.wcava.org.uk/

An online service providing a full range of information about dementia and the support and services available locally in Rugby and across Warwickshire:

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/dementia

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Rugby Borough Council It can help you and those you Lifeline Home Alarm Service care for : Rugby Dementia Support Lifeline provides a  Live at home safely with as computerised link much independence as A small voluntary group providing between your home and possible. help to those with dementia and the council’s 24-hr control  Stay connected with family, those who care for them. Currently centre. You can raise the friends and carers. run (at no or minimal charge): alarm by activating the Lifeline  Feel confident about getting  Twice-monthly music unit or pressing the light-weight out and about  Thursday Together, an evening sessions at the Friends alarm trigger. You can wear social event at the Benn Meeting House, 28 this trigger around your neck or There are lots of different Partnership Centre, Railway Regent Place, Rugby, wrist, or attach it to your suppliers of assistive technology Terrace, Rugby, CV21 3HR on CV21 2PN on the second clothing. Our operator has your equipment. the second Thursday of the and fourth Fridays of the name and address and check month, 6.30pm to 8.30pm, for month, 10.15am to how you are, call for help or Warwickshire County Council those with dementia and their 11.45am, for those with arrange an immediate visit if works with Millbrook carers dementia and their carers necessary. Healthcare (http://www.millbrook  First Friday Together is held at  Monthly pub lunches at www.rugby.gov.uk/info/20071/ -healthcare.co.uk/) to provide an the Claremont Centre, Clifton various venues in Rugby supported_and_sheltered_hou equipment shop and Road, Rugby, CV21 3QE on the on the fourth Wednesday sing/168/lifeline_home_alarm_ demonstration area in first Friday of the month, of the month, for those service Warwickshire called Mi-life, 10.30am to 12 noon, for those with dementia and their which is open to everyone. with dementia and their carers, carers Assistive Technology who then meet separately. This is  Cognitive Stimulation Assistive technology is used to At Mi-life you can view and find preceded by a support session (CST) support, material describe a wide range of out more about how the for those caring for someone with and information available. equipment and services that can equipment works and how it dementia who is now in Please contact RDS for help people to stay safe, might help you. They also offer a residential care, which runs from more details. maximise their independence home assessment service, 9.30am to 10.30am. and provide support to carers. helping you to assess your  Bereaved Support Group at the needs and make Friends Meeting House, 28 For more information, please Please visit the Warwickshire recommendations for solutions. Regent Place, Rugby, CV21 2PN visit: County Council website for Mi-life on the third Friday of the month, www.rugbydementiasupport. further information and advice Binley Industrial Estate 11am to 12.30pm, for people org.uk about assistive technology at: Progress Close (Progress bereaved following caring for or contact Jane on: 01788 www.warwickshire.gov.uk/ Way), Binley,CV3 2TF someone with dementia 576854 assistivetechnology Telephone: 0333 777 3690

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Age UK Warwickshire Rugby Forget-Me-Not Support for Carers Friends Dementia Day Opportunities www.warwickshire.gov.uk/carers For anyone with a dementia diagnosis and able to participate Warwickshire Carer Wellbeing Service in activities and interact with This service aims to ensure that carers are supported in every way fellow group members. Activities possible in their caring role, while maintaining their own wellbeing. include reminiscence therapy, music and movement, arts and Please contact: crafts and run Monday to Tel: 024 7663 2972 – option 2 Thursday from 9.15am to Email: [email protected] 3.15pm. Cost is £36 inclusive of Website: www.carerstrusthofe.org.uk lunch and refreshments (£10 for those financially assisted by Warwickshire County Council). Rugby Dementia Support and Age Dementia Friendly Community in Rugby www.ageuk.org.uk/warwickshire/ UK Warwickshire are working our-services/dementia-day- together to offer the Rugby Forget- Groups and organisations in Rugby are opportunities/ me-not Friends Befriending working towards trying to make Rugby 01788 552543 Service. This provides home visits a more dementia friendly community. for couples living with You can find out more about what’s Musical Memories Café dementia, who are no longer able happening by contacting: A free weekly café for anyone to access activities in the living with dementia. Runs on community. Email: [email protected] the second Monday of every We can also provide a Resource Facebook: @RugbyTownDFC month (except bank holidays) at Directory to individuals and Twitter:@RugbyTownDFC the Bull Inn, 33-35 Main Street, families, which details both local Clifton upon Dunsmore, Rugby and national sources of Please feel free to share with us anything you are doing to help from 10:00am - 12:00pm. information and support on how to make Rugby more dementia friendly. Thank you! www.ageuk.org.uk/warwickshire/ live well with dementia, as well as our-services/musical-memories/ interest, social and activity 01788 552540 groups. For more information, contact Alice on 01788 552545 or at [email protected]

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Warwickshire Community Recovery & Wellbeing Rugby Art Gallery & Anya Court and Voluntary Action Academy Museum

The Recovery and Wellbeing Academy offers a learning approach to recovery and Good Times Project wellbeing that compliments existing services provided by The Good Times Coventry and Warwickshire project are ConnectWELL Partnership NHS Trust and dementia Sing Along Memory Café Supports adults in Rugby Coventry and friendly craft An opportunity to make Borough to improve your life, Warwickshire Mind in the sessions for music, have fun and share your way, by signposting you to county. The academy offers a people experiences at the café on the groups, activities and wide range of FREE courses living with dementia the third Monday of every services that can help you. and workshops designed to and their carers, which run month from 10.30am – Including: advice and empower people in recognising on the last Friday of each 12pm at Anya Court Care information services, their skills, abilities and month, 1 – 3pm. These are Home, 286 Dunchurch community groups, leisure resources and learning to free, therefore please book Road, CV22 6JA. activities, lunch clubs, self-help become experts in their own your place on: 01788 Please call Karen Handley groups, sporting activities and recovery and wellbeing. 533201. on 01788 811976 or email lots, lots more. Additional help Courses have included Coping www.ragm.co.uk/ragm/ anyacourt@hallmarkcare can be provided by Health With Caring, Understanding homepage/60/the_good_tim homes.co.uk Buddy volunteers, who can go Personal Independence es along with you the first few Payments and Bereavement. times, while you are settling in. A large number of local Outreach craft and partnership organisations have reminiscence sessions for For further details, please come together to deliver people with dementia are call 01788 539572 or various free courses and also held at the AGE UK, see www.wcava.org.uk/connect workshops across a number of Claremont Centre and at well venues. Open to over 18s. Enrol Hoskyn and Mulberry at https://recoveryandwellbeing. wards, St Cross covwarkpt.nhs.uk hospital. Please contact Call 0300 303 2626. the art gallery directly for further information.

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Drovers House Care Home Westlands Care Home Coventry and Rugby Admiral Coventry and Warwickshire Nurse Service Partnership NHS Trust Dementia Café with a Community Café This service is available to difference! Westlands in Oliver Street, people living in Coventry and People living with or caring Rugby, CV21 2EX runs a Rugby who are providing care for someone with dementia community café every Tuesday and support for a person with a are very welcome at from 10.30am to 12 noon. diagnosis or likely diagnosis of Drovers’ dementia café, run dementia. To access the service, every week on Wednesday Dewar Close Care Home you must be registered with a Community Dementia between 11.15am and Coventry or Rugby GP. Referrals Service 1.15pm. This is a great Community Café will be accepted from GPs and Specialist support for people opportunity to chat, share Dewar Close care home in Beech Arden Memory Services or who have a diagnosis of your experience and enjoy Drive, Bilton, CV22 7LT runs a people can self refer. dementia and their families using many of the facilities community café every Monday For more information please and carers. the home has to offer. Relax from 9.30am to 11.30am. contact Coventry and Rugby with a cuppa, play ping Admiral Nurse Service on: Memory Assessment pond, sitting or standing, on Overslade House 0300 303 3131 or email: Services a specially designed table CRCCG.CRGPAadmiralnurses Provides assessments for the tennis table, or ride on the Dementia Café @nhs.net identification of memory side-by-side companion bike Overslade House, at 12 problems and post diagnosis on the secure cycle track. Overslade Lane, Rugby, CV22 The Royal British Legion Admiral support. Assessments are Drovers House is in Drover 6DY runs a dementia café on the Nurses offer specialist support, carried out in clinics where Close, Rugby, CV21 first Wednesday of every month information and advice to the possible but those who have 3HXand on the number 4 from 1pm to 3pm. family carers of people living with difficulty accessing clinics may bus route. To book your dementia within the Armed have assessments in their own space or find out more call Rugby Salvation Army Forces community. The service home. 01788 573 955 or email prioritises carers who are [email protected] Singing by Heart, a music group supporting people with complex For more information, please for people with dementia and needs, or who are having call: 01788 513712 or visit: carers, runs on the fourth difficulty coping with their caring www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk Tuesday of the month at 2pm, at role. To be eligible, either the The Rugby base is Brunel Rugby Salvation Army, Bennfield carer and/or the person with House, The Railings, Rugby, Road, Rugby, CV21 2AS. Email dementia must be in the Armed CV21 2AW (sat nav postcode Rugby@ Forces community. CV21 2NP). salvationarmy.org.uk or visit Visit rbl.org.uk or call 0808 802

www.rugbysalvationarmy.co.uk 8080. Overslade house

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Alzheimer’s Society Dementia UK Wolston Leisure Centre Warwickshire Libraries www.alzheimers.org.uk/ Dementia UK provides specialist dementia support Dementia Exercise Class Books on Prescription (BOP) Warwickshire for families through its Admiral Exercise class led by a Books on Prescription can help Dementia Nurse Service. specialist fitness instructor you manage your health and Navigators www.dementiauk.org who meets the needs and wellbeing with self-help books, Service capabilities of each individual eBooks and CDs. Reading Well Single point Dementia UK Helpline person. BOP Dementia has titles for of access to Wednesdays and Fridays: people who have dementia, are information 0800 888 6678 call in between 1pm and 3pm caring for someone with and advice for Open weekdays: 9am – 9pm For more information please dementia or want to find out anyone diagnosed with Weekends: 9am – 5pm contact: Debbie Wilson on more information about dementia, people seeking a [email protected] 07852 826375 or dementia. If you are already a diagnosis, and their families in [email protected] library member, BOP books are Warwickshire. This is provided available to borrow without a by the Alzheimer’s Society Queen’s Diamond Jubilee prescription. If you are not a Warwickshire and is open Leisure Centre library member, health and Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. social care professionals can Tel: 01926 888899 or email: Better Mind Exercise prescribe the BOP service: [email protected] Group Runs every Thursday 2-3pm There are 3 libraries in Rugby:

Dementia Friends Coventry and Warwickshire at the QDJLC.  Rugby Library and Aims to give people a better Dementia Action Alliance This class is ideal for those Information Centre understanding of dementia and The Coventry and looking to stimulate their  Dunchurch Community the small things we can all do to Warwickshire Dementia mind through regular low Library make a difference to the lives of Action Alliance (DDA) is made intensity exercise, improve people affected by dementia. up of organisations in your health and wellbeing  Wolston Library and www.dementiafriends.org.uk/ Coventry and Warwickshire and meet new people. Information Centre which are working towards Contact Philip.Hanrahan@gll. creating dementia friendly org for more information or For more information, please communities to improve the call 01788 435585. visit: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/books lives of people living with dementia and their carers. onprescription www.dementiaaction.org.uk/

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Tips for Living Well with Dementia

Tips for Living Well with Dementia Fitter Futures Warwickshire Physical Activity / Healthy Lifestyles on Referral Service  Eat a healthy mixed diet  Keep active – physically, mentally and socially Being physically active can help you to maintain independence and  Enjoy positive social contacts and meaningful activity live well with dementia. If you have a diagnosis of dementia (in the early-mid stage) you can benefit from the Physical Activity/ Healthy Lifestyles on Referral Service.  The service offers a 12 week programme of physical activity at various venues across Warwickshire.  You can choose from a combination of activities at a variety of settings: Being physically active can improve your wellbeing at all stages of  sessions at a local leisure facility dementia. The benefits of physical activity may include:  personalised sessions at home or in a community venue  Keeping your independence  group activities in your local community e.g. walking groups  Improved strength and mobility  You will be supported by a Physical Activity Specialist who will develop the programme for you and offer support and  Helping to keep bones strong encouragement to help you become more active.  Reducing the risk of falls  There is a cost to the programme which is discounted where  Reducing feelings of isolation possible.  Increased confidence  You can come along to sessions by yourself or with a carer.  Improved mood and sense of wellbeing Carers may also be able to participate - please ask the person (Source: Alzheimer’s Society, 2015) who refers you for more details

Tips when supporting people living with dementia For more information about the Physical Activity/ Healthy Lifestyles  Take time, adjust your pace and expectations on Referral Service please contact Fitter Futures Warwickshire:  Try to see the world from a different point of view Telephone: 02476 400 594 E-mail: [email protected]  Listen carefully Website: www.fitterfutureswarwickshire.co.uk  Be welcoming – smile Please ask your GP practice, pharmacy, healthcare or social care professional to refer you to the service.