The Wellbeing service provides one to one support to improve someone's mental and or physical wellbeing. We provide support for anything non medical which can also be called social prescribing. We can help with things like loneliness, finances, low level mental health issues, being a carer, finding work, volunteering, taking more exercise, drinking less alcohol, stopping smoking and anything else that will help you to feel better.

This includes:

• Helping to navigate services
• Support to access services
• Massive knowledge of local services and community activities
• Support for people living with dementia and their carers, people living with Long Covid, frequent users of A&E, those working with adult social care, people on the Acute Medical Unit at Warrington Hospital (ward A1), asylum seekers and refugees.

The Wellbeing service also runs a weekly drop in for carers of people with dementia at their Memory Lane Hub. This runs each Friday at Whitecross community Centre from 10.30-12.30. All enquiries to warrringtonwellbeing@warrington.gov.uk or call 01925 248460.

While the carers get together for support and to get information from visiting speakers, their loved ones can join a Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) course. CST is a brief, evidence-based treatment for people with mild to moderate dementia. It involves weekly sessions of themed activities. Sessions aim to actively stimulate and engage people with dementia, whilst providing an optimal learning environment and the social benefits of a group. The effects of CST appear to be of a comparable size to those reported with the currently available pharmacological treatments for dementia.