Tendring Community Assets Full Final Report

56 information base, support with benefits and allowances through supported volunteers (accessible across Tendring) is being facilitated with Transformation Funding. There are advice sessions available across the district, such as Citizens Advice Tendring which operates from Clacton with some outreach sessions across the district, but people may benefit from more accessible information about what is available and how to access it. 14.9.4 Community organisations should be encouraged to take up the Dementia Friends training offered by the Alzheimer’s Society to both help them identify people with early dementia leading to diagnosis and better support and to make the sessions they provide more open to dementia sufferers. A target could be to make Tendring District a Dementia Friendly area in terms of local businesses, services, activities and residential and nursing homes. 14.9.5 Care homes for the elderly or those with staff trained in managing people with learning disabilities could be encouraged offer occasional daytime respite sessions, even at a small cost, for families to be able to leave the dementia sufferer whilst they shop or attend appointments, etc. 14.9.6 Information about what is available should be more widely available in a media or format more suited to the elderly or carers. Using Facebook for on line information is particularly unhelpful as even if people are IT literate, they might not use social media. 14.10 Stay Well - supporting adults with health and/or care concerns to access support to maintain healthy and fulfilling lives 14.10.1 Encourage people to try what is available through taster sessions, maybe with a buddy to make sure they know where to go and receive a warm welcome. Where able, some people might prefer to be busy making the tea or baking cakes within a group, therefore it would be positive to encourage them to attend by offering them a role which suits their interests/preferences in some of the groups. 14.10.2 Set up systems/services to support carers closer to home where time and transport are less of an issue. 14.10.3 Explore options to develop existing services to provide respite during the day to enable carers to follow some of their own life choices. 14.11 Die Well – giving people nearing the end of life choice around their care 14.11.1 There is more work to be done to support people living in the community and their families at the end of life. This should include better generalised information preparing for and facilitating end of life planning and about end of life care and pathways. 14.11.2 There is scope for closer collaboration between health and care organisations such as St Helena Hospice, MacMillan nursing, GPs, community nursing and voluntary organisations in Tendring to provide more holistic support to families, carers and patients at end of life.