New Holt-based service offers home respite for dementia carers
23 April 2015
Home visiting service volunteers Caroline Baker, Bob Chaplow and Pat Cox (front, from left) with (back, from left) Holt and District Dementia Support Group chairman Wendy Richley and home visiting service co-ordinator Eleanor Sidgwick. Picture: KAREN BETHELL
A new respite service for carers of people with dementia
A new respite service for carers of people with dementia has been launched at Holt, following the success of a weekly drop-in support group opened last year in St Andrew’s Church meeting room.
After speaking to users of the Poppy Centre dementia café, which provides information, advice and activities to people with memory problems and their carers, Holt and District Dementia Support Group co-ordinator Eleanor Sidgwick came up with the idea of running a home visiting service.
“From what the carers using the café said, I realised how difficult it is for some people to have just a few hours off,” she explained.
