Around 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia and this is expected to continue rise to 1 million by 2025. Trinity has a number of dementia services available for patients living at home and for those staying in the inpatient unit.

How Trinity’s Community Dementia team can support you

Our community dementia service is available for people who live in their own home or in a care home within Trinity's catchment area.

The service aims to ensure people living with dementia, and their families and friends, have the same access to specialist palliative and end of life care as those living with other progressive, life-limiting illnesses such as cancer.

People with dementia often have complex needs. Our specialist service aims to provide dedicated support and advice to help people with dementia make decisions about their future care. The services our Community Dementia team provide includes:

• Advance care planning to help people make decisions and record their wishes for care in the future
• Support for families and friends  who care for someone with dementia
• Managing symptoms  such as pain, distress and anxiety
• Advice and training for professionals  who care for people in the later stages of dementia
• Liaising with other services  and signposting

Download our leaflet about Trinity's Community Dementia Service

Meet our Community Dementia Nursing team

Support for inpatients with dementia

• Our specialist inpatient bay has been designed as a “home from home” for people with dementia. We provide up to two weeks respite within a 12 month period. To find out more about the admission criteria please contact our Clinical Hub team on 020 7787 1062.

Local support services for people living with dementia

There is also lots of other support available for you and your loved ones depending on the borough that you live in. Our Community Dementia team would be happy to answer any questions, or find out more at the link below.

Extra support available for you and your loved ones

Jamie's story

Our respite stays offer patients a change of scene in a safe, caring environment, giving their primary carers a chance to take a break of their own from caring.

We had Jamie come and stay with us for a few days, giving his wife Ann the chance to attend a family wedding in Wales. Ann hadn’t seen some family members for ten years.

“At the wedding, when we arrived, the bride Maddie went mad – she tore across the room with a big shriek and gave me a massive hug and a good kiss.

I got to see my brother and sister for the first time since covid. I got to see a family member I’ve not seen for ten years because they had moved. I got to sit at a table with my family. And what was really nice was my family had arranged for me to stay in a little cottage at the venue with my daughter Mel. I really enjoyed the wedding and the party.

Jamie was so happy with everything, he wasn’t ringing me every five minutes; it was me ringing him! One of the reasons he loved it so much was they gave him a shower using the wheelchair.

Before Jamie went into Trinity he was bed bound and when I went to pick him up, the physio recommended he got out of bed.

Trinity helped arrange a new chair for the lounge and now Jamie can come into that room and watch TV or listen to his favourite, Radio Caroline – that’s thanks to Trinity.

When I went to pick Jamie up from Trinity he said, ‘could he stay a bit longer, everyone’s so nice.’” 

Find out how Trinity can help you or a loved one