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Your local independent charity with a national name FUNDRAISING + Services + puzzle page + information and advice + much more Westroyd House is a happy place to live

We pride ourselves on having a happy home, where residents and their families can enjoy spending quality time with each other and develop new friendships along the way.

We are located close to local shops and amenities, and benefit from strong connections with community groups.

One of the leading care homes in Leicester, our care team offers residential care for those who need help with daily tasks, as well as residential dementia care where we support people to maintain their independence and individuality, encouraging social activity and building relationships within the home. We also provide respite care to give family or friends a well-earned break.

Call our friendly team today on: 01509 860579 Face-to-face visits available! Westroyd House Care Home Tickow Lane, Shepshed, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE12 9LY www.fshc.co.uk/westroydhouse WITH FOUR SEASONS HEALTH CARE

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Kindness for your feet. . 06 Action Deafness: Puzzle page. . . . . 18 Living well with Our Footcare Service Generation Brain teasers to get dementia . . . . . 22 and how we can help Communication Project ..13 you thinking! We are here for you…find out Details of a new project ways in which we can help Find the spring in your helping those with hearing Help us recover and step at our Sheds . . .08 loss to be get online reinvent after News round up . . . .25 New hobbies, friendships lockdown ...... 19 News & exciting developments & sheds! Information & Advice. .14 We’re all in this together… For the latest news, find out how you could help EngAGE Business. . . 11 help & guidance Let’s get back to the Valuing carers. . . . 20 new normal together! FUNdraising...... 16 Carers Week campaign Get involved and help us spread the word

4 | SUMMER 2021 www.ageukleics.org.uk Your local independent charity with a national name Meet the Team… Foreword Editor Tessa Trace from the Tel: 0116 222 0560 Email: [email protected] Executive Director Deputy Editor Leonie Purvis Email: [email protected] It’s so good to be back in an achieved so much in edition of EngAGE and able partnership. We may be Age UK Leicester to share the news with you moving through the road Shire & Rutland of our projects and services map – thankfully quite Head Office, Lansdowne House reopening, new services successfully – but, as we 22 113 Princess Road East Leicester, LE1 7LA available to support you and emerge from the restrictions, Tel: 0116 299 2233 of course, some pertinent we need to be mindful that not Fax: 0116 299 2244 information and advice to everyone is enthusiastic about Email: [email protected] help you avoid scams and returning to a new normal. maximise your income. Designer Laura Lang I hope you enjoy this long- Many older (and indeed Tel: 01536 334226 awaited Summer edition! younger) people have simply Email: [email protected] lost confidence, remain fearful Since March 2020, we have of the virus and of going out, Advertising Sales never been so much in demand, are grieving, dealing with carer Laurence Rowe have never witnessed so many strain and many are working Tel: 01536 334218 [email protected] people struggling with day-to- through new or escalated day life or experienced such mental health challenges. I hope Publisher depths of need. Very few of that the community spirit we Lance Print Ltd us weren’t touched in some experienced will stay with us 1st Floor Tailby House way by Covid-19; we may have and make us thoughtful, gentle Bath Road, Kettering, NN16 8NL Tel: 01536 334222 been furloughed or learned new and considerate with others who Email: [email protected] ways of working (“you’re on may be finding the transition out www.lanceprint.co.uk mute” is now a familiar phrase!), of lockdown nearly as hard as we may have self-isolated or moving into it was last March. Printer caught the virus ourselves and Be kind to others and be kind Lance Print Ltd Tel: (01733) 390564 too many have lost a loved to yourself over the coming 06 one or seen them struggle months. Just like our crisis with long Covid. It’s been a response, our recovery will be year that’s changed us all. so much stronger if it’s achieved together and as a community. As the first point of contact for older people, we helped Stay safe and well. thousands with their emotional, practical and mental health needs. And, in turn, we were helped by hundreds of people Executive 4 who gave in whatever way that Director, Age they could – by volunteering UK Leicester their time, by donating food Shire & CARING FOR LOCAL PROSTATE CANCER for emergency parcels, Rutland by fundraising for us and through generous cash donations. Our community truly stepped This magazine is produced on behalf of Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland by Lance Print Ltd. All rights are reserved by the charity and no part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part without up, came the written permission of the charity. Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland will accept no responsibility for, or together necessarily agree with, any claims made or views expressed in this publication, nor does the mention of any product, service or advertisement imply a recommendation by Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland. Age and UK Leicester Shire & Rutland Limited, Registered Charity No: 1146649, Limited Company No: 7844309

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Kindness for your Feet

Are you finding it hard to get an appointment at your local Podiatry clinic? Do you need some help for yourself or a loved one with overgrown nails or problem feet? Let us help with our new home visit As well as looking after service or visit our Charnwood, Rutland and City Centre clinics. hands and feet, the appointment also provides some much-needed s restrictions begin to healthy feet. We worked with and soften the skin and nails, conversation and ease across the country, the NHS Podiatry service to a nail trim, followed by hand companionship for our Amore and more older develop our Footcare Service or foot cream to moisturise clients, many of whom people are struggling with the in 2019 and quickly found that and prevent skin dryness or have become increasingly health of their feet. Many are appointments at our city centre itchiness. Treatments take isolated during the finding it too difficult to bend clinic were in great demand. 20 – 30 minutes, and longer past year. and cut toenails, struggling to We are pleased to now be appointments are available for cut through thick nails or have able to offer new clinics in those wanting to have both a Our prices are health issues such as arthritis Charnwood and Rutland as hand and foot treatment. competitive and can be that make using clippers well as offering home visits booked through our Home problematic. for people unable to attend Our staff are provided a clinic. with appropriate Personal Help Department on Despite now being able Protective Equipment 0116 299 2266 to leave the house, many During your appointment, a (PPE) and we have extra By Suzanne Tucker at Shutterstock.com older people are finding that member of our fully trained handwashing and hand their nails have become team will welcome you into sanitising facilities available. so overgrown that they are a private room for your You will also be provided with digging into their toes, making treatment. They can help you a personal nail cutting kit to it painful to walk. remove your shoes and socks, prevent cross contamination. if needed, and will make sure All appointments are timed As many Podiatry services are you are comfortable for to prevent client crossover still only offering emergency your treatment. and to allow for thorough appointments, our Footcare cleaning and disinfection of Service can provide much Each treatment will include: a the treatment room between needed support for maintaining hand or foot soak to cleanse appointments.

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14 | SUMMER 2021 www.ageukleics.org.uk Your local independent charity with a national name Welfare Benefits • Housing • Social Care • Your Rights • Residential & Nursing Care • Money Matters • Leisure Benefit Checks ge UK Leicester Shire • Health benefits - people • Universal Credit - the & Rutland is urging any aged over 60 can get free basic standard allowance Information Aolder person who is prescriptions and eye tests for Universal Credit is & worried about money to see if but you may be entitled to £411.51 per month if you they could be eligible to claim help with other NHS health are single and £596.58 Advice any additional benefits. costs too for couples

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supporting older people for over 50 years SUMMER 2021 | 15 Your local independent charity with a national name Get Involved FUNdraising Scott Graham @homajob unsplash.com

Woolly Warriors Get yourself a needed! discounted he Innocent Big Knit is in full swing and With many of us Will during August Twe are calling on the spending lots of knitters and crocheters of time at home it is a ovid sadly disrupted There are no strings attached Leicestershire & Rutland to great opportunity for our ‘Discounted Will – you work directly with the get their needles at the ready ‘stitching superstars’ or CWriting’ promotion last solicitor and just complete a to help raise urgent funds for year but it’s back in August questionnaire for our records. for ‘knitting newbies’ older people most in need. with 26 solicitor practices to grab some needles ready to help you write a If you wish you may make a This is the 18th year that and give it a whirl! new will or review your donation to our charity or you ‘Innocent’ has been running existing one. may want to discuss with the Big Knit in partnership We have patterns your solicitor how to leave with Age UK and ‘Woolly for six exciting new If you are not familiar with a legacy in your will to help Warriors’ are invited to craft hat designs this our annual promotion, then secure services and some little hats to sit on the year, including a it simply helps the over 55’s support for older people ‘Innocent smoothie’ bottles. rainbow, a rabbit and to make or update a single, in future years. For each be-hatted smoothie a cupcake so visit uncomplicated will with sold, we receive 25p, which www.ageukleics.org.uk professional support from a Our ‘Wills’ pack has all the will help the charity make a to download them. local solicitor for just £35 + information you’ll need to big difference to the lives VAT. This year it runs during make an appointment with of older people. the whole of August and all a solicitor and you'll make a you need to do is contact us significant saving on writing to request your wills pack. your will this summer.

To find out more about any of the fundraising By WindAwake at Shutterstock.com ideas and opportunities on this page, to order your free By Nataliia Pyzhova at Shutterstock.com wills pack or to chat to us about your fundraising ideas, please contact Tracey Pollard on 0116 299 2265 or [email protected] You can also visit the Get Involved section on our website at www.ageukleics.org.uk for more fundraising ideas. We can’t do what we do without you!

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When you sign up with some retail therapy with the Now we can get out and about a bit more, www.easyfundraising.org.uk feel-good factor of knowing how does £1000 spending money sound? and make online purchases you’re helping your local through the platform, the charity. Put it towards a holiday in the sun, a meal out, retailers you shop with will donate to us as your charity a treat for the children or whatever will help you of choice. shake off the shackles of a Covid-year!

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Leicestershire and Rutland To fill this gap, our Dementia Living Well With Dementia Support Service starts with an strategy that aims to ensure invitation to a post-diagnosis that people with dementia information session either Living well live independent, healthy and face-to-face or on a Zoom fulfilled lives for as long as video call. possible. We are supporting with dementia people aged 18+ who are The session is tailored to the registered with a GP in specific needs of the individual Leicester and Leicestershire. and is accompanied by an It is well documented that dementia diagnoses We also support their families information pack to read at are increasing. In Leicester and Leicestershire and informal carers and leisure and refer back to as recognise that they are not needed. It recognises that there were an estimated 13,288 people living always living close by so we everyone will have different with dementia in 2019 and it is anticipated that support them wherever they needs and preferences in this will rise to around 14,456 by 2025. may live. terms of the information that they will find most relevant You can ask us directly for and useful. We also provide ge UK Leicester Shire that living with dementia is a help or you can be referred information online that can be & Rutland has helped type of journey and that there by a health or social care accessed at any time. Apeople to live well with will be times when guidance professional. Our team of dementia for many years and support is needed and trained and experienced with a range of services and that people’s needs will Dementia Support Workers “Thank you so support. From April this year, change over time. It also will then contact you to find very much for our provision was extended and responds to the broad range of out what your needs are and we now offer a new Dementia concerns and challenges that provide you with guidance that looking after Support Service which works a diagnosis raises including will help you to plan for the us so well. You with adults who have received employment, finances, family future - as either the person a formal diagnosis of dementia, life and social life. living with dementia or an have succeeded their families and informal carers informal carer. in making both so that they can continue to live Our service, commissioned well and remain independent for by Leicester City Council, We know that people who of us feel more as long as possible. Leicestershire County find their lives changed by a secure as we move Council, and the three Clinical diagnosis of dementia often Whilst receiving a diagnosis Commissioning Groups find it hard to access the forwards into of dementia can be daunting, working across Leicester information they need to help new unchartered our Dementia Support Service and Leicestershire, is closely them process their diagnosis can really help; we recognise aligned to the Leicester, and plan their way forward. waters!!”

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1. Paris and Istanbul 2. (a)Vietnam, (b)Indonesia, (c)Bangladesh, (d)Thailand? 3. Epcot 4. Isle of Man 5. Formentera 6. Cordoba 7. Lake Como 8. San Francisco 9. Croatia 10. Dublin 11. Granada 12. Air Travel (Organiser's Licence)

After the initial information living with dementia and session, there are a range of informal carers. services and support options which can be accessed as • Informal carer learning needed: sessions that will equip carers with the knowledge • One-to-one support from and skills they will need to our team of experienced continue in their caring Dementia Support Workers. role. Sessions include help The support responds to with: understanding the separate and shared dementia; strategies to needs of the person living support the person living with dementia and their with dementia; managing family/informal carer and money; further support can be accessed as available; planning for the frequently and regularly future; looking after yourself. as needed. The Dementia Support • An information and advice Service is not exclusively service to give the help for older people because needed to maximise income it’s not only older people and apply for benefits that who may face a dementia they may be entitled to. journey; we have resources and experience to also • Group support, including help people to live well memory cafes and social when diagnosed with groups aimed at people young onset dementia.

You can find out more information about how our service can help you on our website, www.ageukleics.org.uk by clicking on ‘Our Services’ and choosing ‘Living with Dementia’. You can also contact us on 0116 223 7363 or [email protected]

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