Elderly Care

Patient Webinars

Helping you access reliable nutrition information from qualified health professionals in Somerset.

Developed by NHS Dietitians in Somerset and is aimed at patients with a Somerset General Practitioner (GP). Our nutrition-related webinars are endorsed by the British Dietetic Association. Disclaimer: BDA endorsement applies only to the educational content of the learning activity.

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Dementia UK

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

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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

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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

British Geriatrics Society

The British Geriatrics Society is the membership association for professionals specialising in the healthcare of older people across the UK. Founded in 1947, we now have over 5,000 members, and we are the only Society in the UK offering specialist expertise in the wide range of healthcare needs of older people.

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The Malnutrition Pathway

The Malnutrition Pathway aim to raise awareness of the issue of disease-related malnutrition in the community and to provide professionals and patients with materials to assist them to identify, manage and reverse malnutrition.

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The Malnutrition Task Force (MTF)

Established in 2012, the Malnutrition Task Force is united to address avoidable and preventable malnutrition in older people.

We raise awareness, share our expertise, and work with older people, their relatives, their informal carers and their friends, as well as with health and social care professionals in the community, hospitals, care homes, local authorities and private and voluntary organisations.

Visit The Malnutrition Task Force (MTF) website