DID you know there are around 50,000 people in the South East living with dementia?

It is for this reason that it is vital for those people and their carers to have a place where they feel comfortable, safe and understood.

Living well with dementia is an emotional journey that requires trust and a feelings based approach.

Guild Care in Worthing has developed a range of innovative dementia services that emotionally connect people living with dementia.

Guild Care dementia services recognise the importance of providing specialist care, which is why dementia services are one of the organisations core focuses.

One of these services is Dementia Day Breaks for people over 50 with a memory or cognitive impairment or a diagnosis of dementia.

This is a service designed to support and stimulate people with dementia that runs on a Wednesday from 9.30am – 3pm at £65 per session, including transport to and from Linfield House, a two course lunch, all activities and outings.

This service creates a friendly, comfortable and safe environment close to the centre of Worthing that offers therapeutic art and music activities, excursions such as walks to the Downs, trips to garden centres or pub lunches with support staff, as well as hairdressing and assisted bathing facilities on site.

The high level of centre based care include a manager and three dementia trained support workers who will also use their extensive knowledge in cognitive therapies to enable people to maintain memory function for as long as possible.

Also as part of Guild Care’s Haviland House, a purpose built home dedicated to dementia care, is the Bradbury Centre.

This is a day centre with a unique, person-centred approach that allows those with dementia to continue to live well with dementia but also allow carers to find solace in the thought that their loved ones are in safe hands.

Maureen’s husband Colin attends Bradbury and found she wasn’t meeting people because she was a carer and that losing friends to busy lives was just the way dementia affected other people’s lives.

She said, “I was so pleased and so lucky to find Guild Care. Guild Care means that Colin is looked after and I know that he is safe and happy.

“They do musical things, games, things to stimulate him; they give him a nice lunch.

“For me the benefits are different, in that I can go back to being an individual person, I can go meet people,

“I can have lunch out, I can go shopping and that’s the freedom Guild Care has given me and I can’t tell you how grateful I am.”

To find out more about dementia services at Guild Care, call the Customer Enquiries Team.