Service Details
Brief description:
Befrienders offer friendship and companionship to a person living with dementia who wishes to have a befriender. In usual circumstances, the pair meet once a week or fortnight for an hour or two, to chat or do activities together that the person with dementia would like to do.
Organisation name:
Eric Liddell Community
Type of break:
Befriending
Care needs catered for:
Dementia
Ages catered for:
Adults, Older Adults
How do people access your service:
Self-referral or through services such as Dementia Link Workers, GPs, care organisations, carer support organisations, LOOPs, etc.
Full service description:
The service aims to help lessen the isolation and loneliness that may be experienced by people with dementia, and their carers. The befriending is designed to be responsive to the outcomes the person with dementia would like to meet through befriending, and also helps support the carer to be able to have time away from their caring role during the time the volunteer befriender is with the person with dementia. This can support both people to stay involved and engaged in the community for as long as possible, and to support increased confidence, wellbeing and quality of life.
Price information:
Free of charge; but the person being befriended may need to consider the costs of any activity undertaken during the time of the befriending. For example, if having a cup of coffee and a cake, the person being befriended needs to pay for their own.
Any other information you think people might find helpful:
Our volunteer befrienders undertake a training programme in befriending, dementia awareness, creative activities, and moving & handling (to support anyone who may have mobility challenges); and are supported & supervised throughout. They also all have membership of the PVG (protection of vulnerable adults) scheme.
Organisation providing this information:
Eric Liddell Centre
Quality Assurance Accreditation:
OSCR
Accessibility Details
General accessibility:
Level entry to premises or ramp available
Dementia Adaptations:
Staff training
Hearing Impairment Adaptations:
Staff training
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