You will continue to have access to:

Warrington Wellbeing Service
Phone: 01925 248 460
Email: warringtonwellbeing@warrington.gov.uk

Alzheimer’s Society
Phone: 0151 420 8010
Website

Other useful numbers and websites:

GP out of hours service – Warrington
Phone: 111

Wired adult carers advice line
Phone: 01925 633 492
Website

Access to social care, phone: 01925 444 239,
out of hours: 01925 444 400

CareAware helpline, phone: 0300 303 385
Website

My life Warrington, phone: 01925 443 131
Email: 131mylife@warrington.gov.uk

What to do if …

You experience:

  • Changes in your mood/personality/ behaviour
  • Increased agitation/anxiety

1. Check your physical health

Are you unwell or do you have an infection?

  • Urine/chest
  • Have you a long term condition that requires review?

Are you?

  • Constipated
  • In pain

Has there been any recent changes to?

  • Your medication and are you taking your medication as prescribed?

2. Check your psychological wellbeing

Is the cause of your agitation/distress environmental?

  • Are you bored or is the environment too stimulating and/or noisy for you?

Has anything happened that may have affected your mood or behaviour?

  • Changes in your personal circumstances?
  • Bereavement/loss?

If the answer is yes to any of the above consider the following:

  • Do you need to seek medical assistance?
  • Do you need to adjust the care and support you receive?

Contact your GP or social services. In an emergency call 999.

For more information contact

Later Life and Memory Service
Beckett Unit
Hollins Park Hospital
Hollins Lane
Winwick
Warrington
WA2 8WA

Tel: 01925 664 041

Our patients matter

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust listens and responds to patients and their carers to help improve the services we deliver.

If you have any comments,compliments or concerns you can speak with a member of staff or contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) and Complaints Team.

Telephone: 0151 471 2377
Freephone: 0800 328 2941
Email: palsandcomplaints@merseycare.nhs.uk

 

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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