Elderly care

Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. They believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.

Phone
0800 055 6112

Website
Age UK

Dementia UK offers specialist one to one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.

Phone
0800 888 6678

Website
Dementia UK

Email
helpline@dementiauk.org

Free phone support for older people, 24 hours a day.

Phone
0800 470 80 90

Website
The Silver Line Helpline

With your personal alarm button you can call for help day or night, from anywhere in your home or garden (within 50m of the lifeline unit), 365 days of the year.

Phone
08009 174 680

Email
contactcare@saffronhousing.co.uk

Sprowston Day Centre Luncheon Club is run from St Cuthbert’s Centre on Wroxham Road, offering the elderly a place to meet and make new friends as well as giving them a two course home cooked meal. The centre is open on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Phone
01603 419682

Email
sprowstondaycentre@hotmail.com

Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering.

Phone
01736 757 900

Website
www.cinnamon.org.uk

Holt & District Dementia Support is a local registered charity which provides a service hub for those with dementia, their carers and their families.

Their services include a weekly Poppy Café and fortnightly Poppy PM. Both offer opportunities for support and companionship in a safe, friendly and relaxed environment and take place in the Meeting Room at St. Andrew’s Church, Holt, NR25 6BB.
Poppy Café opens every Tuesday from 10:30am to 12:30pm.

Poppy PM is open on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month from 2pm to 3:30pm.

Their Poppy Home Visiting service provides respite for family members or carers who look after those with dementia in their own homes.

Phone 
Claire Roberts: 01263 713817
Eleanor Sidgwick: 01263 710617

Website
www.holtdementiasupport.org.uk

Email
contact@holtdementiasupport.org.uk

Living with dementia can be overwhelming, but you’re not alone. From a listening ear on the phone, to a visit in person. From practical tips and advice, to opportunities to connect with others.

Phone
0333 150 3456

Website
Alzheimer’s Society