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Durham County Council: Home services
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Durham County Council
Adult Social Care
We offer a range of services for older people that have been developed to help you get the most from life. For example, if you want to stay in your own home you can get help from our reablement services or visi...
Contact: Durham County Council, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Advocacy for Service Users and Carers
You may need to use the service when you feel that using the skills of a person who is independent would help you to express your views, opinions and wishes and to obtain impartial advice. You might use the ...
Contact: Social Care and Health, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Break Services For Carers
These services may include sitting services, day services, home care, residential care and shared lives. Services should aim to be flexible and to meet an individual’s needs. These services are usually provide...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Care services outside your home
Find out about the many local services which provide short periods of care or support away from the home. These services can help with recovery or rehabilitation, give adults regular activities and/or support sessions to...
Contact: Durham County Council, .
Carers Emergency Support Service
Carers can register with the service so that prompt arrangements can be made for replacement care should they be unable to perform their usual caring role because of an emergency. Replacement care can be arranged through...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Carers Support - Durham and Chester-le-Street
The centres offer a wide range of local, confidential support services to adult and parent carers, such as: One-to-one support, including home visits Information and advice Informal advocacy support Carer traini...
Contact: Carers Centres, , Durham and Chester-le-Street Carers Support, Bullion Hall, Bullion Lane, Chester-le-Street, County Durham, DH2 2ES.
Direct Payments
Direct Payments are money you receive from the council to buy your own care and support services, rather than having social care staff arrange them for you. This puts you in charge of your own care or support arrang...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Durham County Council - Care Connect
Equipment is provided to support the individual in their home and tailored to meet their needs. It can be as simple as the basic community alarm service, able to respond in an emergency and provide regular contact by tel...
Contact: Durham County Council (Durham), , County Hall, Durham, County Durham, DH1 5UL.
Durham County Council - Telecare
Equipment is provided to support the individual in their home and tailored to meet their needs. It can be as simple as the basic community alarm service, able to respond in an emergency and provide regular contact by tel...
Contact: Durham County Council (Sedgefield), , County Hall, Durham, County Durham, DH1 5UL.
Durham County Council Housing Improvement Team
The service is intended to take away the anxiety and stress associated with organising and having building works carried out to your home. In general a HIA can help with: preparing funding applications for...
Contact: Durham and Darlington Home Improvement Agency, , Civic Centre, Crook, DL15 9ES.
Durham Information Guide
DIG is an online database which allows you to search for information on adult social care services, health groups and other community information on a countywide, regional and national basis.
Contact: Durham Information Guide, , Durham County Council, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Easington District Carers Support
The centres offer a wide range of local, confidential support services to adult and parent carers, such as: One-to-one support, including home visits Information and advice Informal advocacy support Carer t...
Contact: Carers Centres, , Easington District Carers Support - 5th Floor, Lee House, Yoden Way, Peterlee, County Durham, SR8 1BB.
Hearing Impairment-Support for people
We are required to keep a register of people with hearing impairment. However, registration is entirely voluntary. There are a number of categories of deaf and hard of hearing registration dependent on your degree of hea...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Link2
Link2 is a new accessible dial-a-ride bus for people making local journeys (up to five miles) for which there is no other suitable bus. Link2 also provides an enhanced service for those unable to access mainstream p...
Contact: Link2, , Travel Response Centre, Passenger Transport, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UQ.
Respite Care
Respite care is another name for relief or short-term care. It can give you and/or your carer(s) a break. For a short period only, respite care can be arranged in a care home. We can arrange a short stay on a regular b...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
Sedgefield Locality Carers Centre
The centres offer a wide range of local, confidential support services to adult and parent carers, such as: One-to-one support, including home visits Information and advice Informal advocacy support Carer t...
Contact: Carers Centres, , Sedgefield Locality Carers Centre, Suite 3 Avenue House, Greenwell Road, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, DL5 4DH.
Senior Citizens "The Table" Lunch Club
“The Table” is a lunch club that meets in Belmont Parish Hall on Thursdays, between 11.30am and 2.00pm. We provide a home cooked, two course meal with tea or coffee for £4.00. The m...
Contact: Locate care & support in Co Durham, .
Senior Citizen's Lunch Club in Newton Hall
The Senior Citizen's Lunch Club is a very friendly club where people meet to socialise and have lunch. A two course home cooked meal is served with tea and biscuits every Monday. We also hold a weekly raffle, play bing...
Contact: Locate care & support in Co Durham, .
Sight Loss - support for people with sight loss
We are required to keep a register of people with a visual impairment, however, registration is entirely voluntary. Only a Consultant ophthalmologist can certify that someone is eligible to be registered. If the eye cond...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
The Reablement Service
The Reablement Service provides personal social care, help with activities of daily living and other practical tasks for a limited time. They do this in such a way as to enable you to develop and regain both confidence a...
Contact: Adult Services, , County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.
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