Humphrey Booth Resource Centre

The resource centre supports people with dementia and their carers, in the community. This page tells you a little about the different services based at the resource centre.

• Poppy Day Centre
• Community Mental Health Team
• Care on Call
• Telecare
• Information
• Cafe
• Education, training and research
• Carers
• Volunteers
• Groups

Poppy Day Centre

The Poppy Day Centre has been specially designed as a relaxing, safe space for people with moderate to severe dementia. Facilities include purpose built gardens with safe flooring and seating areas; assisted exercise machines; a specially equipped bathroom to help people enjoy safe and pleasant personal care; a comfortable and relaxing quiet room; a therapy kitchen for assessment and cooking sessions and an activity and crafts room to help people keep physically and mentally active. We serve meals in our spacious dining area and our lounge facilities provide comfortable and pleasant surroundings for our service users to relax in.

Our highly trained health and social care staff support service users with a range of activities to meet their needs and interests, in a welcoming and safe environment.

Activities might include crafts, quizzes, music, and reminiscence games and discussions. Our staff also support carers and relatives and encourage them to use other services. Regular carers meetings are a chance to meet with other carers, chat, exchange experiences and relax.

The day centre is open seven days a week between 8.30am and 5.30pm. To use the day centre, you need to contact your social work or community mental health team.

Community mental health team

The mental health team includes social workers, community psychiatric nurses (CPN), occupational therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists and counsellors, who are all there to help people live as independently as possible.

The team supports older people with dementia and other mental health conditions who live in Pendleton, Broughton, Swinton, Claremont/Weaste, Ordsall and Clifton.

We'll talk to you and, if you agree, to your family and other people who care for you to find out about the things you can manage by yourself and where you might need some extra support. We'll work with you to agree the support that will help you most. This could be equipment at home, help with daily tasks or therapy. We might also suggest you join the day centre. You should also tell us what you think would help you most.

You must be referred to us by your GP or another doctor.

Care on Call

Care on Call is the city council's mobile warden scheme. It provides a 24 hour monitoring and emergency response service to residents of Salford aged 18 and over. Care on Call's aim is to support customers to stay safe and independent in their own home for as long as possible. The service offered by Care on Call eliminates the need to feel alone, as there is always someone at the end of the telephone at the press of a button if the need arises.

Customer comments about Care on Call:

• "The pendant is 100% peace of mind that help will be there straight away"
• "I feel so much safer now I have my pendant alarm, the wardens are so friendly and caring, and it is a pleasure to have a chat with them when they visit"

Care on Call
Telephone: 0161 607 7133
Email: careoncall@salford.gov.uk

Telecare

Telecare is a range of small sensors which send an automatic alarm either to a carer or to Care on Call if someone gets into difficulties - for example, if they fall, if there is a fire or flood in their home or if they leave their home unexpectedly.

Telecare may help anyone with health or social support needs to remain independent, safe and confident. Telecare also gives carers, family and friends peace of mind.

"Since my wife has had a bed sensor I know immediately when she gets out of bed instead of having to listen, I have had the best nights sleep in as long as I can remember."

We have a permanent Telecare room set up like a "bedsit" so that you can see how the equipment works and whether it might help you. Telecare has a key role in helping people with dementia to live at home.

Contact your social work or mental health team if you are interested in having telecare in your home.

Information

Having the right information at the right time and making sure that it is easy to understand is crucial for people who are managing their own condition.

A dedicated information area within easy reach of the on-site cafe gives you the chance to find out more about dementia. Staff will be on-hand regularly to offer advice and you can also browse the extensice leaflet library or use the free internet access to find what you are looking for. You can also search our online service directory.

If you need to talk privately to a member of staff, a quiet room is available.

Café

Use our café to relax and enjoy some "time out", as a comfortable reading area or as an informal meeting space to share experiences and support.

We serve healthy hot and cold snacks and drinks from a varied menu.

Education, training and research

There is already great work going on in the city to support people living with dementia. The resource centre brings all this good work together, making it easier for professionals to link with and learn from each other and for service users and carers to access services.

We have a large, well-resourced room which will be used for training up to 30 professionals or carers at a time.

The centre also has important links with Manchester University and will work alongside university research teams to improve the quality of dementia support across the country.

Caring

Caring for someone with dementia can be tough and we know the strain some people feel under.

Throughout the centre, we offer a range of support especially for carers, which you can dip in and out of, to suit your personal requirements. The café offers carers a calm, informal space to relax in and, if you want, to share experiences and support. There are also more formal meetings and forums where carers can share ideas and work with professionals to improve the quality of dementia services in the city.

Other support includes events and activities, information and advice; the use of assisted exercise machines and free internet. As the centre develops, we hope carers will help us to develop the range of support on offer.

For more information and support about your rights as a carer:

PRT Salford Carers Centre
Telephone: 0161 833 0217
Email: carers.centre@salford.gov.uk

Volunteers

We are looking for local people to support the resource centre. You could help in a wide variety of ways including meeting and greeting our visitors, helping in the café, clearing tables, helping in the information area and more. You will make new friends and learn new skills. We will provide support and training whilst you volunteer with us.

If you would like to know more please email the Humphrey Booth Resource Centre humphreybooth.resourcecentre@salford.gov.uk or telephone 0161 607 7100.

Groups

If you run a group and are looking for a welcoming, smart and flexible place to meet, then contact us. We already host a range of different groups including the very successful singing with dementia group - over 50 people meet at our centre each week.

This page was last updated on 27 July 2011