Information Services
Who can use this service?
Any service provider, commissioner, practitioner, researcher or people in training from any sector within the West Midlands can use the information service. If you need information about mental illness in later life or the care of older people with mental health problems please contact us. We are interested to know about any projects and the reasons for the enquiry. We will do what we can to help identify useful sources.
How can the service be accessed?
The service is usually available Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm.
Email: west.midlands@dementiauk.org
Telephone: 01902 575064
Fax: 01902 575051
You can write to us at:
Dementia UK West Midlands
Warstones Resource Centre
Warstones Drive
Wolverhampton
WV4 4PG
What Sorts of Information Requests Do We Get?
- Early Onset Dementia
- Training for Nursing/Residential Homes
- Ethnicity and Dementia
- Models of Good Practice (Intermediate Care)
- Design for Dementia
- Assessment
- Memory Clinics
- Carer Support
- Care Standards in Nursing/Residential Homes
- Inpatient Resources
- Sexuality
- Environment Technology
- Dementia Strategy
- Assistive Technology
Requests have been extremely varied, ranging from good practice in working with someone expressing sexual needs, dementia friendly garden design to policy issues around developing a strategy to develop old age mental health services.