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Day Clubs<br />
Would your loved one benefit from some<br />
time with others in a safe, friendly and<br />
relaxed environment where they can try a<br />
variety of different activities covering all<br />
interests?<br />
Day Clubs are aimed at older people with<br />
conditions including dementia, strokes,<br />
mental health and being elderly and/or frail.<br />
Family carers get a regular break to enable<br />
them to do whatever they choose while their<br />
person with care needs is being looked after<br />
by our trained Care Workers.<br />
Activities include:<br />
• reminiscence<br />
• board games<br />
• jigsaws<br />
• singing.<br />
Hot cooked lunches are prepared on the<br />
premises and other refreshments are<br />
provided.<br />
We run Day Clubs in the following locations:<br />
• Trinity Hall, March<br />
Mondays & Tuesdays 10am-3pm<br />
Cost: £6.50 per day to cover food and<br />
refreshments.<br />
• Chaplin's Close, Fulbourn<br />
Mondays 10am-3pm<br />
Tuesdays 9.30 am-2.30pm<br />
Cost: £35.50 per day including lunch<br />
and refreshments.<br />
• Emmerich Court, King's Lynn<br />
Tuesdays 9.30am-2pm<br />
Cost: £35.00 per day including lunch<br />
and refreshments.<br />
Transport may be available - please ask at<br />
the time of enquiry.<br />
To discuss your loved one's care needs<br />
or for further information, please contact<br />
us:<br />
Interested in online support for caring<br />
for a friend or family member affected by<br />
psychosis?<br />
About the online resource COPe-support<br />
The EFFIP Project (E-Support for Families &<br />
Friends of Individuals affected by Psychosis)<br />
has developed an online resource, called<br />
COPe-support (Carers fOr People with<br />
Psychosis e-support resource). COPe-support<br />
provides peer support, information on<br />
psychosis and ways for carers to look after<br />
themselves, all online via http://cope-support.<br />
org.<br />
Inviting carers to help try out<br />
COPe-support<br />
We are running a study to find out if<br />
COPe-support works to improve carers’<br />
wellbeing and how well they cope with caring.<br />
We are inviting carers supporting a loved<br />
one affected by psychosis to join the study.<br />
Carers can be parents, partners, siblings, other<br />
relatives or close friends.<br />
If you’d like to find out more<br />
If you are supporting a loved one affected by<br />
psychosis, aged 18 or above, living in England,<br />
and enjoy using internet resources, we would<br />
like to tell you more about COPe-support.<br />
Visit our website http://cope-support.org,<br />
Twitter @COPe-support, or contact Rachel<br />
Harrison on 0<strong>12</strong>23 219520 or email<br />
rachel.harrison@cpft.nhs.uk or Dorothy<br />
O’Connor dorothy.o’connor@cpft.nhs.uk<br />
You can also contact Jacqueline Sin who is<br />
leading the study, on 07817 027035 or email<br />
jasin@sgul.ac.uk.<br />
Participants will be paid £30 in total for their<br />
time.<br />
This study has been approved by South Central -<br />
Oxford C Research Ethics Committee (18/SC/0104)<br />
and Health Research Authority (IRAS 240005).<br />
Tel: 01480 499090<br />
Email: homecare@ carerstrustcpn.org<br />
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