The London Mental 32 Health Fact Book Dementia Services The Trust provides specialist services to people with care needs relating to mental illness, ageing and dementia. This work is carried out by the Services for Ageing and Mental Health (SAMH) division and works with more than 2000 service users across Camden and Islington, 75% of whom were suffering from dementia. The service aims to promote independence and encourage service users and their carers to participate in shared decision making about their future. The Trust also works closely with both Primary Care and Adult Social Care in Camden and Islington, whilst continuing to recognise the central role that carers have in supporting our service users to remain in the community. For people with memory problems we offer innovative projects like START (an evidence-based psychological intervention for carers), advance care planning and the “food for the brain” group which has become highly regarded in the treatment and detection of memory problems. The Trust runs residential liaison services, a 19 bed nursing home, and also a number of day services for people with dementia and challenging behaviours, providing support both to service users and their carers. Crisis Houses – an alternative to inpatient care The Trust runs three Crisis Houses – the Rivers and Daleham Gardens in Camden (see case study p.23), and Drayton Park in Islington The houses are for people who feel they can’t cope, offering them an alternative to psychiatric hospital – in essence a home from home. The model of care is world-leading and provides easy access to day programmes through a Recovery Centre combined with crisis houses and crisis resolution teams working closely together to act quickly when someone is starting to have a problem. Tile House Tile House is run in partnership with One Housing, and provides accommodation to adults with a diagnosed long term mental health problem requiring 24 hour support. People are given a furnished one bedroom self-contained flat and they have access to support staff who are on site 24 hours a day. As part of the partnership, the Trust offers support with setting up and maintaining a tenancy, welfare benefits, and maximising income and developing independent living skills, to ensure people are being helped to work towards achieving a full and healthy lifestyle. The aim is to help people move into independent accommodation and get back to work and social responsibility.
London Mental Health Fact Bbook
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