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Elderly Care
Safeguarding for adults
If you are worried about an adult and feel you want to raise your concerns to someone, here are some useful contacts and links:
If someone is in immediate danger
- Please call 999.
- If they are not, you can contact the police on the non-emergency number 101.
Local Support
The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board (OSAB)
OSAB consists of various organisations in Oxfordshire working together to protect vulnerable adults. Our mission is to raise awareness and promote the welfare of adults at risk by fostering effective cooperation and ensuring positive outcomes for those they serve.
Visit The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board (OSAB) website
National Support
Dementia UK
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
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.
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
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.