DEMENTIA Friendly Keighley is seeking volunteers. The charity is looking for people to cover a wide range of roles, from helping with activity groups to general office administration. Volunteers are also needed for a soon-to-be-launched befriending and respite service – Time to Take; Aire – which aims to support the housebound or those with limited mobility through reminiscence sessions involving sight, touch, taste, smell and sound. Free training is offered to volunteers. Dementia Friendly Keighley manager, Julie Lintern, said: Covid has had a profound impact on us all. We all experienced the feeling of isolation and loneliness and being cut-off from the world. I like others am pleased to feel that each day we re getting closer to normality but unfortunately isolation, loneliness and feeling unsupported are normality for some.
April Howie, left, and Alex Lambert of Springbank Care Home SPRINGBANK Care Home, in Silsden has completed its Dementia Friendly Keighley Recognition Award. It shows that the home has completed a number of steps to not only ensure the organisation is dementia friendly, but also a number of their members of staff. The care home now has ‘Dementia Champions’ members of staff who will be delivering dementia friends sessions to staff , residents families and businesses to create a dementia friendly community. The family owned care home currently has 40 bedrooms including 10 for those with dementia, and has recently opened a second community for residents living with dementia, expanding this by another 13 beds.