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Elderly Care
Local Support Services
Care and Repair
Can assist with small home maintenance things and can also put up grab rails for a low cost.
Patient Transport
If a patient is struggling to get to the hospital for an appointment as there is no one to take them.
Befriending
For people who are lonely or socially isolated, but not for people suffering with any sort of memory impairment.
Wyre Enhanced Primary Care (EPC)
For mobility assessments, walking equipment etc.
Call 01253 956 206
Social prescribing team
Our Social Prescribers aim is to improve patients’ health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to existing community services/groups and forming new ones.
Patients can call the practice number and press option 5 to self-refer to the team.
Call 01253 204 354
Adult social care
For getting a care package, safeguarding and big home adaptations i.e. wet room. If the person pays council tax to Wyre BC then its LCC, if they pay to Blackpool then its Blackpool.
- Lancashire (LCC) - 0300 123 6720
- Blackpool - 01253 477 800
National Support Services
Dementia UK
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
Age UK
Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. Age UK believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.
The Silver Line
The Silver Line is the only free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year
Cinnamon Trust
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.