Services overview

If you have dementia or care for someone with dementia, at any age and from any community, Dementia Matters is here to help.

We are a Newcastle-based charity that provides specialist care, support and advice to people with dementia and other neurological disorders, such as acquired brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.

We also provide care for people with physical disabilities and complex health needs. We support people at any age and from any community.

We are rated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in all regulated areas of service as follows:

Safe - Good
Effective - Outstanding
Caring - Good
Responsive - Good
Well-led – Requires Improvement

Where we work

Here is an overview of where our services can be found Read more

Advice centre

The Dementia Advice Centre is a brand-new service for people living on Tyneside looking for effective, coordinated support or information about living with dementia. Read more

Home support

At Dementia Matters’ we offer an all-inclusive Home Support service providing anything from a 1 hour call up to bespoke 24 hour packages of care designed around you in your home. Read more

Day centre

Providing much needed daily respite for dedicated carers throughout the north east and a stimulating environment with a touch of fun and sense of purpose for those who attend. Read more

Residential and respite

Your room, Your choice, we encourage our guests to bring their home comforts with them this helps make people feel safe and secure in their environment and most importantly the environment feels familiar to them. Read more

Latest

Now a ‘Trustee’d’ Recruiter

If you were to ask me 5 years ago when I first started in healthcare recruitment, would I now be part owner of a recruitment group including 3 businesses and a Trustee to the Board for a local charity, I’d likely have chuckled and said ‘yeahhh right’.

Friends and Family Fundraising

Why not have some fun with your friends and family while raising much needed funds for those living with dementia

DAC continues its hard work throughout lockdown

Shop for us

Online shopper? You are? great! come this way! You can now raise money for Dementia Matters at no extra cost to you. You can use the following sites and make donations to us without having to put to much work in.

Home Support Care & Support Worker

Dementia Matters Home Care & Support Workers

Safety is the key to re opening

Service users can rest assured that we are working incredibly hard to ensure that when Day Care does open, it opens safely and compassionately.

Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia.

Edith's Story

With your support we can help more people with Dementia like Edith and her family.

Vascular dementia

Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia.

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Adjusting to the new normal in HR

HR in the care sector is never an easy role, but HR in the care sector in the time of Covid19 has kicked up some unique challenges!

Day centre

Providing much needed daily respite for dedicated carers throughout the north east and a stimulating environment with a touch of fun and sense of purpose for those who attend.

Fundraising through these challenging times

Our challenge is to tap into those people and get them to donate to us rather than the national.

Home support

At Dementia Matters’ we offer an all-inclusive Home Support service providing anything from a 1 hour call up to bespoke 24 hour packages of care designed around you in your home.