Dementia

Invicta Advocacy Network is carrying out work across West Kent initially for one year (until April 2011) to provide advocacy support to people with Dementia. Issues will cover any aspect of the person’s life when they need someone to speak up for them, or to help them to speak up and be listened to.

Dementia Advocates can be an additional safeguard in some-one’s life and will represent that person’s views as if they were their own. The service is for:

  1. People who are able to consent to decisions being made for and about them, and with support make their own choices;

    and

  2. People who lack capacity to make specific decisions. Advocates will ensure that for these people, everything that is done for them is in their best interests, has regard to their wishes and feelings (past and present) and that they remain central to any decisions made about them.

Referral to a Dementia Advocate is by telephone, and can be made by, or on behalf of the person:

01322 285234

This page last updated Fri, 30 April 2010 22:45:57 GMT