Dementia UK is the specialist dementia nurse charity. Its nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, provide life-changing support to families affected by all forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Admiral Nurses work on the free Dementia Helpline, in virtual clinics, and in community services, hospitals, care homes and hospices. They can advise on all aspects of dementia, including getting a diagnosis, understanding symptoms, coping strategies for changes in behaviour, benefits and finances, end of life care and emotional support.
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The Admiral Nurse Dementia Helpline is for anyone with a question or concern about Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. From looking out for the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s, to understanding the challenges of living with someone with vascular dementia, our specialist Admiral Nurses have the knowledge and experience to understand the situation and suggest answers that might be hard to find elsewhere.
Carers Trust is a major charity for carers. They offer specialist services for carers of people of all ages and conditions and a range of individually tailored support and group activities.
The branch in Oxfordshire is called Crossroads Care, and they strive in providing carers with emotional support and making it personal to each individual’s needs.
Contact provides support for parents and carers of disabled children. They bring families together to support each other and help families to campaign, volunteer and fundraise to improve life for themselves and others.
Contact understand that life with a disabled child brings its unique challenges, and they exist to help families feel valued, supported, confident and informed around this.
Offering advice and support to parents/carers on a range of topics such as benefits, social care, medical information and preparing for adult life. They have a free helpline and additional appointments are available as well.
Contact provide programmes, workshops and courses with a range of information and topics to support families. They also have parent support groups and online communities for parents/carers to be able to connect with each other and share experiences.
Carers UK have a dual purpose for carers: To support the carers community, as well as drive the movement for change. By sharing experiences and offering support, Carers UK can help improve the lives of carers.
They give advice, information and support for carers, and campaign for carers rights. They are there to make a difference, and ensure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you do not have to care alone.
Carers Voice Oxfordshire acts as a voice for unpaid carers of adults of family members or friends who have caring needs. This could be a learning/physical disability or a mental health problem.
They offer advice, information, consultation and support for carers, supporting their needs and ensuring their views are heard by voluntary, professional and statutory organisations.
Carers Oxfordshire is a free service for unpaid adult carers of someone living in Oxfordshire.
That means if you are 18 or older and a child, adult or both, who lives in Oxfordshire rely on you, you can rely on us.
Whether you’re taking on a caring role for the first time, or have many years’ experience, we can help you.
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We can offer advice and information and let you know about our wellbeing offers, or you can simply sign up to receive our newsletter that gives lots of information about services and activities going on.
If you need more, a carer’s assessment is the best way to look at what support you might need to help you to look after yourself and stay well and safe while you are caring for someone.
We want you to know that when you speak to us, we have a wealth of experience, we won’t overwhelm you with information or advice and you don’t have to take any support we offer if you don’t want to. We can help you to tackle the things you feel that are difficult and find solutions that can make caring easier. Our team are here to listen and to help whatever your caring situation is.
Oxfordshire Carers Support Services, part of Rethink Mental Illness provide one-to-one emotional and practical support to adult mental health carers throughout the county. They believe that carers play an invaluable role in the recovery of the person being cared for. They feel carers should be acknowledged, valued and supported to live a life outside of their caring role.
Rethink supports a number of support groups for people caring for family members or friends with mental health problems. The workers also signpost people to a carers course within Oxfordshire Recovery college, as well as training which could be beneficial for those in a caring role.
Crisis work directly with thousands of homeless people every year. They provide vital help so that people can rebuild their lives and are supported out of homelessness for good. Crisis offer one to one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales. How they help someone depends on their individual needs and situation. It could be with finding a home and settling in, getting new skills and finding a job, or help with their health and wellbeing. Crisis use research to find out how best to improve our services, but also to find wider solutions to homelessness. Together with homeless people and Crisis supporters, they campaign for the changes needed to end homelessness for good.
We are the hub of community organising in Oxford, working together to build a better Oxford by tackling inequalities of health, education and opportunity.
We run volunteering programmes and facilitate community organising to equip, empower and support people to tackle inequalities with a focus on where the need and opportunity to make a difference is greatest.
We run projects such as:
Schools Plus – online academic support for children
Big Brothers Big Sisters – befriending/ mentoring for children
Parent Power – support for parents and carers in OX4
Fellow – English support for adults speaking English as a second language
We also run a Community Hub (Windale Avenue, OX4 6JD), hosting various community groups – gardening, puzzles and games, parent/ carers coffee morning, and much more!