Welcome...
to Age UK Wakefield District, working with individuals, supporting independence, improving quality of later life.
Providing practical and emotional support for people age 18+ following a bereavement.
Activity sessions for people with mild to moderate Dementia. Small group sizes offering stimulating activities such as music interaction, quizzes and crafts.
We provide a regular, paid for, seven day a week bespoke service, supporting individuals with domestic and personal care needs, to remain in their own home.
We provide a range of information and advice services to older people, their carers and professionals, covering a wide range of issues including housing, social care, residential care and maintaining independence.
We are continuing to work within the Connecting Care Integrated Health and Social Care Teams across the district, ensuring that the complex needs of the older people are being met.
We currently have more than 100 staff working across the Wakefield District - ensuring that vulnerable older people have access to essential supplies, care and support.
Our Befriending service offers isolated and lonely older people the opportunity to be matched with a Befriending Volunteer, who will provide weekly telephone calls, offering conversation and friendship.
We have over 263 big-hearted, open-minded Volunteers who are self-motivated and enthusiastic but most of all, can have fun and enjoy working with and caring for others.
Thanks to a grant from the Armed Forces Covenant Trust, Age UK Wakefield District have been privileged to work more closely with our Armed Forces Veterans community.
As we grow older exercise helps to maintain our health, our sense of wellbeing and prevent declining functionality.
We are continuing to keep our lines of communication open, working with partners to provide information on staying healthy and well.
Working in communities to reduce isolation, connecting with our clients using relaxed social groups, telephone, printed Wellbeing packs and Digital Platforms. Looking, always, to support new experiences and ways to stay connected.
Fitness groups promoting mental and physical wellbeing. Located at Hemsworth, Pontefract and Wakefield Centre, our walking football groups provide regular exercise and social interaction.
Comfortable transport taking people to alternative locations to convalesce and/or ensuring their safety and security when returning home.
As more and more services move online, we offer computer tablet loan and help to gain confidence using the internet. Keeping older people connected with friends and family members wherever in the world they are!
Our specialist trained staff provide much needed telephone support to help older people manage the impact of both self-isolation and returning to outdoor activities.
We provide a regular, paid for, seven day a week bespoke service, supporting individuals with domestic and personal care needs, to remain in their own home.
Keep up to date with our planned events, new services on offer, and information about how we're campaigning within Wakefield District to improve the lives of older people.
Published on 22 October 2024 01:13 PM
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Published on 08 October 2024 04:07 PM
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Published on 30 September 2024 03:34 PM
We recently had the opportunity to travel by train from Castleford in to Leeds and then on to Headingly to watch...
Age UK Advice Line
Telephone 0800 678 1602 Freephone 8am – 7pm 365 days a year
www.ageuk.org.uk
Samaritans
Telephone 116 123 Freephone 24hrs 365 days a year
www.samaritans.org
SANEline
A national out- of hours mental health helpline offering specialist emotional support, guidance and information to anyone affected by mental illness, including family, friends and carers.
Telephone 0300 304 7000 4:30pm-10:30pm 365 days a year
C.A.L.M. (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
Telephone: 0800 58 58 58 5pm- 12am 365 days a year
If you could spread the word to everyone, and anyone, and ask if they would like to participate in knitting, or crocheting, small hats to fit on innocent smoothie bottles.
Age UK Wakefield District Staff and Volunteers will never just turn up unexpectedly at your door. We would always be responding to your request for help and will telephone in advance to let you know when to expect us. All of our staff and volunteers carry ID badges so do not believe anyone claiming to come from Age UK Wakefield District who turns up unannounced and without a correct ID badge. If in doubt, please call our number to confirm the identity of the visitor. If you need help for yourself or anyone in the Wakefield District who is over 50 please call our main number 01977 552114 and we will help in any way we can.
Our quality marks
Age UK Wakefield District has achieved the Age UK Charity Quality Standard (CQS). The CQS is externally assessed by quality assessment experts, SGS.
Age UK Wakefield District Home Support Service have achieved a rating of Good by the Care Quality Commision
The I&A Quality Programme has two main sets of benchmarks, which state that a service must show that it:
• Provides consistent, relevant and effective advice to clients and demonstrates this by providing sufficient information in their client records.
• Has clear and relevant systems and procedures in place to manage the delivery of consistent, good quality information and advice.
• Monitors its services and seeks feedback from clients and stakeholders.