Radfield Home Care and Choices Day Centre Unite to Combat Loneliness and Isolation Across Sefton

RADFIELD Home Care is proud to celebrate its ongoing collaboration with Choices Day Centre in Crosby, a Commubity community partnership dedicated to tackling loneliness and social isolation among older adults while promoting:- wellbeing, independence, and meaningful community connections.

Choices Day Centre provides a warm, safe, and welcoming environment where older adults can attend daily to enjoy:- friendship, engaging conversations, and meaningful, stimulating activities. With the added support of Radfield Home Care's professional home care services, clients are empowered to remain active, socially connected, and supported both at home and within the community.

This successful Community partnership was perfectly highlighted at a fantastic Christmas celebration held recently at the:- Choices Day Care Centre, located in Waterloo, Merseyside, kindly supported by Radfield Home Care.

Guests enjoyed a delightful selection of homemade festive cakes from Mr Thompson Bakery in Ormskirk, alongside a lively and uplifting live performance by Dave Benjamin, who created a truly joyful atmosphere. The room was filled with smiles, singing, dancing, and the unmistakable warmth of togetherness that events like these bring.

Bev Sutton Waggott, Day Centre Manager at Choices, shared her heartfelt thanks to Radfield Home Care for supporting the festive afternoon and for their continued commitment to enriching the lives of older adults in the community.

A special recognition also goes to the dedicated team at Choices Day Centre, whose caring, engaging approach ensures the centre remains a place where clients feel:- safe, valued, and encouraged to make new friendships every day.

Looking ahead, Radfield Home Care will continue to support Choices Day Care Centre throughout the coming year, with plans to share:- community contacts, organise coach trips, and strengthen connections through Radfield's wider network of community partners.

Radfield Home Care's Owner, Dave Bellis commented:- "Collaboration like this plays a vital role in combating loneliness and isolation. By working together, we create opportunities for older adults to stay active, stimulated, and socially connected. Together, we truly make a difference."

For more information about the Day Care Centre please visit:- ChoicesDayCare.Co.UK.

Dementia UK shares the signs and symptoms of dementia to look out for ahead of free clinics in Merseyside

NATIONWIDE and Dementia UK's free face to face clinics are returning to Nationwide's Southport, Birkenhead and Liverpool branches, over January 2026, offering specialist support in a safe, comfortable and private space for people to discuss any aspect of dementia.  

Hosted by Dementia UK's Admiral Nurses, the clinics are open to anyone impacted by dementia, offering life changing support to families and individuals in the area. Appointments can be booked via Dementia UK's website.

The clinics will offer practical and emotional advice on all aspects of dementia; from worries about symptoms through to getting a diagnosis and understanding how the condition can progress.

Ahead of the appointments, Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, has shared some of the common signs and symptoms of dementia people should look out for in themselves and others.
 
Dementia is often associated with memory problems, but the 1st symptoms of dementia are not always memory related, meaning sometimes people don't recognise the early signs. 
  
The signs of dementia differ from person to person, but the common symptoms include:- 

• Memory problems - eg. increasing forgetfulness, difficulty retaining information and getting lost in places that used to be familiar.
  Changes in cognitive ability - eg. difficulties with decision making, a loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities and problems understanding time and place.
  

• Communication issues - eg. struggling to find the right words, confused or rambling speech and calling people and items by the wrong name.
  

• Changes in behaviour and personality - eg. becoming agitated, upset or impatient more easily than usual, acting impulsively in ways that are socially inappropriate, experiencing restlessness such as:- pacing or fighting.

If someone is concerned about having symptoms of dementia, it is important to book an appointment with your GP as soon as possible.  
 
There can be challenges along the way to receiving a diagnosis, for example a personal may be reluctant to go to the doctor due to fear or be in denial that there is an issue, but it's important that families know they're not alone - Dementia UK's Admiral Nurses are there to help. 
 
The clinics in Merseyside are part of Nationwide's social impact strategy, Fairer Futures, which addresses 4 of the UK's biggest social issues through charity partnerships; family poverty (Action for Children), youth homelessness (Centrepoint), dementia (Dementia UK) and cancer (The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity). Nationwide is funding 30 dementia specialist Admiral Nurses and is hosting clinics in 200 branches across the country. 

Sarah Cooper, Admiral Nurse at Dementia UK, said:- "We're looking forward to returning to Merseyside to offer support and advice to families affected by dementia in the area. Our clinic programme, in partnership with Nationwide Building Society, has now been running for over a year which has enabled us to reach thousands of people across the country who need the support of a dementia specialist Admiral Nurse."
 
Charlotte Kensett, Director of Customer Experience and Social Impact for Nationwide, said:- "Dementia impacts millions of families and that's why we're incredibly proud to have brought life-changing support into 200 of our branches and helped more than 30,000 people through our partnership with Dementia UK. As a mutual we believe we have a role to play in strengthening the communities we serve and supporting those most in need. Through our social impact strategy, Nationwide Fairer Futures, we're committed to changing hundreds of thousands of lives for the better." 
 
To book a confidential and in-person appointment with an Admiral Nurse in Berkshire, visit this website.
  
The clinics will visit:-

• Southport, 25/27 London Street PR9 0UF, on:- 6 January and 7 January 2026.
  

• Birkenhead, 35-37 Milton Pavement CH41 2YA, on:- 13 January 2026.
  

• Liverpool, 17/19 Lord Street L2 9UW, on:- 15 January 2026.

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