Dementia Directory of Services for Boston 2020
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Name Of Contact Service Offered Address Contact Details When Service Name Dementia UK provides specialist dementia support for families through our Admiral Nurse service. When things get challenging or difficult, our nurses Tel: 01522 551250 Mon – Fri work alongside people with dementia 9.00 am – Admiral Nurse and their families: giving them the one- Admiral Nurse Email: 9 pm Dementia to-one support, expert guidance and Countywide Dementia [email protected] Helpline practical solutions they need to face Helpline Sat & Sun dementia with more confidence. If Website: 9.00 am – you’re caring for someone with dementia www.dementiauk.org 5 pm or if you have any other concerns or questions, call or email our Admiral Nurses for specialist support and advice. Tel: 01522 782155 Adult Social Care is responsible for County Offices Lincolnshire ensuring the most vulnerable adults in Newland Email: 8 am – 6 pm County Adult Care our community and their informal carers Lincoln [email protected] Monday to Council Adult are safeguarded and provided with LN1 1YL For out of hours emergencies Tel. Friday Care support to meet their needs. 01522 782333 Adults Supporting Adults provide community services for people over the Adults age of 18 years who have a learning or 17 Watergate Adults Tel: 01529 416270 Supporting physical disability, sensory impairment, Sleaford Supporting Email: [email protected] Adults experience poor mental health or people NG34 7PG Adults Website: www.asaorg.co.uk with dementia who require support to live in the community. Long term personal Care Coordinator Service. 7 days a week from 8 am to 8 pm access to your own Coordinator. The service is funded privately by direct payments, personal health budget or family members. We can check eligibility for benefits and financial support. We are proven to reduce hospital admission, Tel: 01476 552137 helping people to avoid crisis point and we keep people safer at home for longer. Email: Age Care Advice We offer free first contact via telephone Countywide Simon Jessop [email protected] or face to face, to see how our involvement could add benefit to your Website: current situation. www.agecareadvice.co.uk We also provide a self-funder assessment service at a reasonable cost. The benchmark for assessing is within 48 hours. Assessments occur at weekends or evenings if preferred, this includes hospitals. 2 Name Of Contact Service Offered Address Contact Details When Service Name Provides information and advice to older Age UK Lincoln people and help with form filling. and South Supports a range of social activities Lincolnshire Tel: 0345 564144 including lunch clubs, pop in coffee Chantry House shops, craft, computer lessons and 3 Lincoln Lane, Age UK Lincoln Age UK Lincoln Email: [email protected] seated exercise. Volunteering Boston, PE21 8RU and South and South opportunities available. Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Website: Head office: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/lincolns A service offering personal care services Park Street outhlincolnshire/ as well as help with household chores Activity Centre, including cleaning, laundry, shopping and Park Street, a sitting service. Lincoln. LN1 1UQ National Tel: 03002221122 Alzheimer’s society provide information Or: 01522 437069 Alzheimer’s for all aspects of dementia and offer a Alzheimer’s Countywide Society national dementia helpline for anyone Society Email: [email protected] that may be effected by dementia. Website: www.alzheimers.org.uk A support group for people with dementia and their Carers that provides Tel: 01522 437069 Len Medlock Alzheimer’s information about living with dementia 1st and 3rd Centre Society and other services available locally in an Alzheimer’s Email: [email protected] Wednesday St. Georges Road Dementia Cafe informal and comfortable environment. Society 10.00am – Boston Boston It is also a place to relax, socialise and Website: 12.00pm PE21 8YB meet other people with dementia and www.alzheimers.org.uk their carers. Accessible door to door service for those Tel: 01205 360183 The Len Medlock Monday – unable to access existing forms of Boston Centre Boston Friday transport and have no alternative Email: Community St George’s Road Community transport available due to there being no [email protected] Transport Boston Transport 9.00 a.m. – service available, age or frailty, disability PE21 8YB 4.30 p.m. or need for assistance. Website: www.bostonct.org.uk Cruse The service offers the opportunity to Bereavement Boston and have 6 weeks of one to one support with Care Cruse Tel: 01205 357396 District Cruse a Bereavement Volunteer to explore grief c/o Boston Bereavement Bereavement and emotions after a loss, at our offices Baptist Church Care Email: [email protected] Care in Boston. Telephone support is also 98 High Street available. Boston PE21 8TA Boston Health Walks is an outdoor Rosemary Multiple Boston Health walking group. Carers and cared for 12 different Saunders Tel: 07970630137 times a Walks welcome. Walks take place a number of locations week times in the week. 3 Name Of Contact Service Offered Address Contact Details When Service Name Boston Library is a friendly and welcoming venue, which provides free library membership, books, computer facilities and information services to the whole community. The staff are Dementia Friends and are happy to help with enquiries, photocopying and IT basics. The library runs regular reading Tel: 01522 782010 County Hall groups, craft activities and other events Boston Library Boston Library Boston suitable for everyone. A range of titles Email: [email protected] Lincs. PE21 6DY from the National Books on Prescription Scheme are available for borrowing for free and the series includes books specifically for those experiencing Dementia and their families and carers. (Also see Reading Well Books on Prescription) Boston Lions are an internationally 2nd & 4th Queen of Spades Tel: 08458331452 recognised organisation that are Tuesday of Wellington Road Boston Lions community centred. Members attend Nick Graves each month Boston Email: regular social events and are welcomed from 8 pm PE21 ONX [email protected] as part of a supportive community. onwards The Butterfly Hospice cares for people with life limiting illnesses. Patients are Tel: 01205 311222 admitted for the relief of difficult Rowan Way symptoms, along with psychological, Email: Butterfly Boston The Butterfly social or spiritual support and [email protected] Hospice Lincolnshire PE21 Hospice rehabilitation. The hospice provides 9DH respite care as well as end of life care. Website: The service is provide on a 24 hour basis www.butterflyhospice.com and is free of charge. 4 Name Of Contact Service Offered Address Contact Details When Service Name Are you looking after someone who could not manage without your care? Then you are a carer and you may want to talk to someone about your caring role and any support needs you may have. Delivered in partnership by We offer tailored information, advice, The Customer Service Centre is the including about other useful services, for first point of contact for all Lincolnshire you and the person you are looking after referrals and general enquiries: County 8am to 6pm and emotional and practical support. 01522 782224 Council Monday to Opportunity to talk in detail about your Carers: Customer Friday caring role (a carer's assessment) and Email: Service Centre (except how you feel. Support with conversations [email protected] The Lincolnshire (telephone bank with people and services such as GPs, Countywide Carers' Service based support holidays) social care and hospitals. Practical In an emergency, out of hours, Lincolnshire service) training to help you in your caring role. phone the Emergency Duty Team Carers' Service Advice and support for carers in the on 01522 782333. and Carers workplace. Eligibility for benefits and FIRST financial support. Carer apps for smart Website: (providing phones. Regular contact via telephone, www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/carers face to face Carers FIRST website, support groups, www.carersfirst.org.uk support in the monthly e-bulletin and What's On guide. community) Carers Emergency Response Plan. Support to access a break or help around the home. Carer-friendly pharmacies and flu jabs. Hospital in-reach support. Alan Taylor Caring A support group for carers and former Tel: 01205 871465 Companions 1st Monday carers of people with dementia. The – The group meet up at a number of locations Email: Orchards for lunch throughout the month. [email protected] Sheltered Housing in Wyberton 3rd Monday – Boston An opportunity for any carers to stop by, Caring County Club have a chat and a warm drink Companions ‘Pop In’ Centrepoint Outreach is an organisation Belmont House Tel: 01205 360900 Centrepoint that works with and for homeless and 15 Red Lion Liz Hopkins Outreach vulnerable people, with social and Street Boston Email: elizabeth@centrepoint- economic needs from all walks of life. PE21 6PZ outreach.com 5 Name Of Contact Service Offered Address Contact Details When Service Name Office open 9.30 – 4.00 pm Monday The Citizens Advice Mid Lincs service – Friday for offers practical, up-to-date information self-help Citizens Advice Tel: 0344 411 1444 and advice on a wide range of topics, and Citizens Advice Municipal Citizens including: debt, benefits, housing, legal, information Mid Lincs – Buildings Advice Mid Email: discrimination, employment, [email protected] Drop in Boston Office West Street , Lincs immigration, consumer and other k advice Boston PE21 8QR problems. Specialist benefits/tax credit sessions and debt service by appointment. Monday – Thursday 9.30 – 4.00 pm Lincolnshire Co-operative offer a free NHS Medicines Use Review to patients Co-op Medicine Please contact your local Co-op taking two or more regular medicines. Countywide N/A Use Review pharmacy Patients can contact their local pharmacist. Providing a range of care and support CRG Homecare staff and services, including domiciliary Boston Tel: 01205 400127 Lincolnshire care, supported living, extra care, and continuing healthcare (non-nursing).