These documents have helpful information about our units and the care team who will look after your loved one. They've been put together by carers and staff who have experience of them:
Our Stockport older people's mental health team have worked with carers to develop a series of videos, with advice and infomation about frontotemporal dementia.
Frontotemporal dementia is an uncommon type of dementia that causes problems with behaviour and language.
These videos are in three parts, each featuring stories from carers of people with frontotemporal dementia, along with advice from our experts. Click on the links to watch them on YouTube:
More information
These links have more helpful information, related to what's mentioned in the videos:
This leaflet has been developed by people with dementia and their carers, alongside health professionals in Oldham, to help you have difficult conversations about death and the end of life.
It uses cartoons by award-winning illustrator, Tony Husband, to address some of the common questions you have, the barriers you might face, what you can do to help, and the support that’s available.
Click here for a copy.
The Triangle of Care is a guide to best practice in mental health care.
To become accredited, we must achieve six key standards:
More information on the Triangle of Care can be found at: http://professionals.carers.org/
We first introduced a trust-wide Triangle of Care steering group in 2014. Now each borough has a local steering group to build on our success so far.
The group has achieved: