Elderly Care

Age Related Hearing Loss Service

Patients aged 55 or over are now able to refer themselves to the age-related hearing loss service without the need for a GP referral.

If you are aged 55 or over and are experiencing hearing and communication difficulties and feel you might benefit from a hearing assessment and rehabilitation including the option of trying hearing aids, please complete the self-referral form below and give this to your chosen provider. 

For further information please visit the Oxford University Hospitals website

If you suffer from earwax built up or suspect that you may have a build-up of earwax, please perform 2 weeks self-management as set out on the NHS website

Do not perform earwax removal if you have any of the following symptoms and seek advice from the practice nurse or your GP:

• pain
• discharge or bleeding from your ear
• sudden deafness or buzzing sound, foreign bodies in your ear
• dizziness

If you require wax removal at your assessment appointment, this will be provided only if the self-management steps have been followed.

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