Elderly Care

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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

  1. Please call 999.
  2. 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.

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