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Pathways to Recovery offers advice and information, medical and psychological treatment and access to residential rehabilitation, including:

• Health promotion
• Needle exchange
• Testing for blood borne viruses (BBVs)
• Vaccinations for Hepatitis B
• Medical interventions including methadone and buprenorphine prescribing
• Community home detoxification
• GP shared care
• Action planning, care co-ordination and key work
• Group work including relapse prevention
• Referral and assessment for residential rehabilitation and detoxification
• Drug Interventions Programme (DIP), supporting alcohol and substance users involved in the criminal justice system
• Harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment
• Life skills training

Worcestershire - hubs in Kidderminster, Redditch, Worcester, Malvern and Evesham.

If you want advice and support about your, or someone else’s, use of drugs or alcohol simply telephone Pathways. Also accept GP referrals with the consent of the client.

Penderels Trust offers advice, guidance and practical solutions to enable people with disabilities and older people to live independently in their own homes, to achieve their goals in life and to help them play an active part in their community. 

We are a not-for-profit organisation and have been a leading provider of advice and guidance for over twenty years.

Please use the buttons below to find out more about personal budgets and direct payments and the services we offer to support you.

We currently treat more than 70 different conditions through a nationwide network of over 450 facilities that support individuals’ health, care, education and specialised needs. Our services include:

• Private healthcare:
• NHS healthcare:
• Education and Children’s Services
• Adult Care Services

Priory’s network of high quality facilities allow us to offer joined-up care pathways. We offer programmes which integrate healthcare, treatment and therapy, and specialist education services that are tailored according to individual needs, in an appropriate setting. Our integrated strength is that we can provide a seamless transition for the individual as they progress between higher and lower dependency services.

Reconnections

Who we are

Reconnections is a new programme aimed at tackling loneliness amongst older people living in Worcestershire. The Reconnections team is a partnership of local organisations, led by Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire, who have experience and understanding of the issues people face in later life.

What We Do and How it Works

Reconnections will provide tailored, one to one support for lonely older people which will enable them to identify, talk about and overcome their feelings of loneliness by reconnecting them with interests and activities in their local community.

Following a detailed conversation, Reconnections will support the individual to design a plan which is personalised to their needs and wishes around reducing their feelings of loneliness. A locally based volunteer will then partner with the individual and help them to achieve their plan through confidence building and maintaining their connections with activities and interests in the lo

Reconnections

Why We Do it

• There are 15,000 older people in Worcestershire who are potentially lonely
• 9% of people over the age of 65 feel cut off from society
• 50% of all older people consider the Television as their main form of company
• 5% of people over the age of 65 spent Christmas Day alone
• Feeling lonely is as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
• 17% of older people have less than weekly contact with their family, friends and neighbours

By connecting people to those around them, they can stay happier and healthier for longer.

Contact us

Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire

Malvern Gate

Bromwich Road, Worcester, WR2 4BN

Telephone 
0800 195 8040

Email: 
reconnections@ageukhw.org.uk