Elderly Care

Oxford Dementia Nurse Help Line

For Dementia Advice and Support. 9 to 6pm Monday to Friday.

Telephone: 01865 410 210

Dementia Oxfordshire

Dementia Oxfordshire is a partnership between three local charities, Age UK Oxfordshire, Guideposts and YoungDementia UK, who are bringing together their specialist expertise to develop and deliver a new Dementia Support Service for people of all ages. The service is free to use.

Visit the Dementia Oxfordshire website

Bicester Dementia Support Groups

For information on support groups in Bicester and the surrounding area.

Telephone: 01865 410 210

Bicester Dementia Support Worker

Claire Knight is the Dementia Support Worker for Bicester.

Telephone: 07827 235 433

Daybreak – Living Well with Dementia

Daybreak is unique in providing social and therapeutic respite days for people living with dementia, helping couples stay together at home, thus delaying or avoiding residential care. We have 3 day clubs in Oxfordshire: Kidlington, North Oxford and Greater Leys.

Visit the Daybreak website

Forget Me Not (Bicester) Ltd

Friendship group for older people – you can be sure of a warm welcome.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9am to 3pm at the Bicester Methodist Church.

Visit the Forget Me Not website

Banbury Areas NRAS Group

The Banbury Area National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society Group meets every other month at the Horton Hospital Training Room (6:30pm to 8pm). Run by volunteers who all have Rheumatoid Arthritis, we organise various events to raise awareness and offer support, education and information to those lining with RA.

Visit the NRAS website

Volunteer Connect Community Transport Scheme

The Volunteer Connect Community Transport Scheme provides a service where volunteer drivers use their own cars to take people to essential appointments, when there is no reasonable alternative for them to travel.

Passengers pay a 45p/mile charge (from the drivers home) to help cover the driver’s fuel cost. 2 days’ notice required.

Ask the practice for further details

NHS Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS)

We are proud to transport people who are unable to use public or other transport due to their medical condition, and include those who are attending hospital outpatient clinics, being admitted to or discharged from hospital wards and needing life-saving treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy or renal dialysis or DVT treatment.

Your first NEPTS journey must be booked by a healthcare professional or by you calling the Patient Eligibility Line. You can then use NEPTS Patient Zone to book subsequent journeys, manage your bookings and check your journey status.

Visit the NEPTS website

Dementia UK

Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.

Visit the Dementia UK website

Age UK

Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. Age UK believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.

Visit the Age UK website

The Silver Line

The Silver Line is the only free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year

Visit the The Silver Line website

Cinnamon Trust

Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering.

Visit the Cinnamon Trust website