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Dementia and Alzheimer’s tells a story, a story that is as individual as the person telling it.  All 4 members of our team have a personal story to tell, a cherished loved one that lives or lived with this illness.  We wish to help Genesis create a happy story.  Can you help us achieve this.  We would be grateful for your donations, any amount will help us achieve our target. 

Thank You in advance for the difference your making

Genesis Care is a small, not for profit organisation providing a well-being and respite care service for older people. We offer a wide range of activities and therapies designed to stimulate and 

Older people deserve respect and dignity as they move towards the end of their lives. For many, dementia comes along and changes everything. Slowly they lose their sense of identity, thoughts and words become jumbled and faces become unrecognisable, without a name. Dementia has a stigma that affects the whole family. Friends may not always be around like they used to be. Their world becomes a smaller and often a more frightening place. For the person who cares for them it is often hard to find someone to stop with their relative so that they can go out on a regular basis. And respite care!!

Genesis was set up to provide somewhere for older people to meet with their peers and find friendship and stimulation if that is what they wish. The main reason for Genesis was to help carers through times of sleepless nights and long days. To provide somewhere where their loved ones could go whilst they had respite from their caring role. All the staff at Genesis have been, or still are, carers. They understand the frustration, anger, guilt and all the other emotions which have a habit of raising their heads, especially in the middle of the night.

  At present Genesis is situated in Trinity School Rooms – part of Chorley Methodist Church and whilst we are grateful for the Church hiring out their rooms to us, the building has now begun to restrict the type of care we can provide.  The toilets are small, the bathroom does not exist, in winter it can be very cold in the toilets and in summer we cannot really go out for there is no enclosed space. We share the building with many other organisations and therefore security and movement around is becoming a problem. There could be a happy ending. For Genesis it comes in the shape of a large detatched house stood in its own grounds behind a high wall. We wish to obtain a property which would help us create something special for carers.

We would still have the well-being and respite centre but we would like to move a step closer to providing a unique type of respite care. This would be in the form of a respite hotel. The house we have in mind has 4 double bedrooms which would allow us to create a feeling that they are somewhere special – on holiday. During the day ground floor would be open to them to join in the many activities we offer, or if they choose they could go into the garden or be a man in a shed! But the real bonus would be no locked doors – entry into every room and access to the outside. For carers it would mean the chance to book a room 12 month in advance if needs be and know for certain that it would still be available to them at the allocated time.

Please help us achieve this dream.