Bolton Dementia & Complex Care Service

About our service

The Dementia and Complex Care Service provides the best possible quality care and comprehensive support to enable service users who have a mental issue such as emotional conflicts or stress, or difficulties which affect the memory. Our service supports service users to live in the community and sustain independent living for as long as appropriate within their own environment.

Where this is not possible the service will work with partner agencies, service users and their carers to ensure that the most appropriate, least restrictive environment is accessed to safely meet their needs.

The service provides:

• Health and social care needs are assessed and results in a plan to support both the service user and carers to maximise independence, promote choice and control and continued integration within the community, as safely as possible
• Ongoing assessments of memory with mental health and its impact on activities of daily living
• Prompt and expert diagnosis, assessment, timely and effective treatment and review
• Evidence-based treatments
• Advice and support to carers
• Access to support, including suitable housing, meaningful day time activities, welfare benefits, advice, equipment and telecare
• Minimise the use of emergency respite and hospital admission
• Supporting people with dementia / mental ill health, while they have capacity, to formulate Advance statements, advance decisions to refuse treatment, Lasting Power of Attorney and Preferred Priorities of Care.

Community Mental Health Team

Provides assessment, care and treatment for people with dementia or a functional mental illness such as emotional conflicts or stress who also have complex physical health conditions.

Dementia In-reach team

Offers a rapid response, intensive support and specialist interventions to service users in 24 hour care, to help prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and promote timely discharge from hospital.

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