Dumfries and Galloway Services

• Information and advice
• Care at home service (pilot)
• Outreach support for carers and people with dementia
• Day care (Dumfries, Ecclefechan, Kirkconnel, Stewartry)
• Carers courses
• Carer support groups (Annan, Castle Douglas, Lockerbie)
• Mixed support group – Dumfries
• Library
• Creating dementia friendly communities
• Memory Groups (Annan, Dumfries, Castle Douglas)
• Early stage/onset support service (Memory Clinic Link Workers)

Regional Manager - Julie Barron
Service Manager – Ailsa Black
Assistant Service Manager – Dot Fairbairn
Project Worker – Mandy Pool
Carer Liaison Worker – Isobel Tinning
Memory Clinic Link Workers – Catherine Young (Annandale/Eskdale), Judi Shaw (Stewartry), Andy Murray (Nithsdale),
Memory Clinic Link Worker Outreach Worker - Lynne Bruce (Nithsdale)
Creating Dementia Friendly Communities Development Worker – Judi Shaw
Administrators - Josephine Rennie, Sandra Sanders
Day Care Organisers - Lesley Muirhead, Alison Fair, Fiona Maxwell, Mary Frances Murray, Linda Innes, Linda Kerr.

Alzheimer Scotland
Dumfries & Galloway Services
1 Gordon Street
Dumfries
DG1 1EG
Phone: 01387 261303, fax: 01387 251899

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Four memory clinic link workers are employed by Alzheimer Scotland and are co-located with the Community Mental Health Teams acros the region. Their role is to offer advice to people who have been recently diagnosed, or are in the process of being diagnosed, with dementia and to their carers. This service specialises in helping people in the early stages.

Download the report on the palliative care needs of people with end stage dementia living in Dumfries & Galloway – 2004 / 2006
Lighting Up Lives (pdf, 71 pages, 809kb)

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