Example sentences of "day centre " in BNC.

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1 The Duchess of Kent , as Patron of Age Concern England , this morning opened the Hockley and Hawkwell Old People 's Welfare Council Day Centre , Hockley , Essex .
2 The social worker will be like a skilled ‘ friend ’ to them , who can help them in many areas of their life , perhaps by suggesting ways of overcoming loneliness by putting them in contact with the type of activity , club , Day Centre or workshop that would interest them , and arranging suitable transport for this ; or , if they are not particularly keen on group social activities , sometimes by finding individual volunteers to visit them and take them out ; although it should be remembered that no social worker or voluntary visitor can ever be a real substitute for care from their own family .
3 Check out day centres in your area : Canterbury 's Prince of Wales Youth Trust Day Centre has been organising its own Open Christmas scheme for the last two years .
4 was a lunchtime at the Probation Day Centre
5 STAFF at the City Way Day Centre , Belfast , are on the look-out for old artefacts relating to railways to decorate their dining room on the theme of a buffet car .
6 Scotmid ’ helped celebrate with a large birthday cake which was accepted by from Craighall Day Centre for people with special needs .
7 At the Hatherley Day centre in Gloucester , disabled people find help and opportunity to imrpove their quality of life .
8 But now , people who use the Prestbury Day centre and other similar centres in Gloucestershire , say they 're under threat .
9 Peter has now been transferred to the Aylestone Day Centre in Hereford , where he has volunteer helpers looking after him all the time .
10 The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days .
11 Senior citizens old time dancing , Island Day Centre , Newtownards Road , 2pm to 4pm .
12 Pat has got a second class going , for the elderly at the Newquay Day Centre ( where she is up against a simultaneously running Bingo session ) , and would now like to introduce a recreational and/or breathing class to her locality .
13 A Nottinghamshire Day Centre which caters for more than a hundred mentally handicapped people is facing closure .
14 However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so-and-so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing .
15 They may arrange for you to have short stay daytime , or full time care at a day centre or residential home if you are without heat and light at home .
16 The doctor can refer the person to the social services department for a home help , or meals on wheels , or a place at a day centre .
17 The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre .
18 The Duchess of Kent , as Patron of Age Concern , opens a new Day Centre in Hockley and Hawkwell , Essex .
19 He waited months for a day centre place ; when he got one it was unsuitable and he refused to go .
20 For example , the team at Newark offered carers a choice of a two week playscheme , a one week playscheme plus attendance at an ordinary playscheme supported by a volunteer , a one week playscheme with the option of special care weeks at the day centre , or a one week playscheme plus two days per week of special care throughout the summer holidays .
21 In Somerset the management of the Probation Service has reached an agreement with the local and neighbouring courts that Schedule 11 probation orders , that is , orders containing day centre or specified activity requirements , are operated as a direct alternative to custody .
22 The large proportion of schedule 11 cases in the AEC sample contrasts dramatically with the proportion commencing probation nationally in 1988 , that is , 63 per cent of the AEC 's probationers were subject to a day centre requirement compared with only six per cent nationally ; similarly , 31 per cent of the AEC probationers were subject to a specified activity requirement compared with only six per cent nationally ( Home Office , 1990c , p. 46 ) .
23 If you can not organize people to come into your home to look after the patient , he may be able to attend a local Day Centre run by the Local Authority .
24 One had formerly been an occupational therapy aide with elderly people and then a voluntary day centre manager ; the other had community work qualifications and experience , and had worked both in a local authority and an Age Concern setting .
25 It did however have a Part III home for elderly mentally infirm clients and a day centre operated by a voluntary organisation ; there was also a growing private residential sector .
26 A comparison is therefore made in Table 4.8 between action and control groups at the time of the second assessment ( approximately six months after the first assessment ) on receipt of some of the main forms of statutory help to those living at home : home help , meals-on-wheels , social worker , community psychiatric nurse , district nurse or bathing assistant , and day care ( day centre or day hospital ) .
27 at Part III , escorted transport ) 14.10 CPN ( 2 visits p.w. ) 23.20 Proportion of time of development officer 23.38 60.68 Case I C 050 ( Control sample , Ipswich , costs at time of second assessment ) £ Home help ( l 1/2 hours p.w ) 4.38 Meals-on-wheels ( 2 p.w. ) 2.78 Day care ( 2 days p.w. , at Part III , unescorted transport ) 4.70 CPN ( 1 visit p.m. ) 2.90 14.76 Case N A513 ( Action sample , Newham , at time of third assessment ) £ Meals-on-wheels ( 7 p.w. ) 13.09 District nurse ( 1 visit p.m. ) 0.93 Project support worker ( 21 hours p.w. ) 63.00 CPN ( 1 visit per fortnight ) 6.66 Proportion of time of development officer 16.56 100.24 Case N C 512 ( Control sample , Newham , at time of third assessment ) £ Day hospital ( 1 day p.w. ) 36.09 Day centre ( 3 days p.w. , escorted transport ) 35.25 71.34
28 About two to three of the residents go to the day centre on a daily basis .
29 Betty and George found their support in the local day centre , Jill from a relative 's support group and Gladys through a care attendant scheme that relieved her responsibilities for a few hours each day .
30 Other groups run by local authority health or social services departments may be in conjunction with a day centre , where elderly and disabled people can spend one , two , or even more , days a week .
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