Staff at a specialist Southport day service for Sefton residents with dementia organised an afternoon tea with a difference to celebrate Halloween this week. The team at Brookdale Resource Centre in Ainsdale – run by the borough’s leading adult social care provider, New Directions – decided a change to the normal menu was needed at the ghostly gathering. So out went the traditional victoria sponges and profiteroles, and in came spooky cookies, edible spider cakes and blood-red beverages. Meanwhile, service users were also able to enjoy some high-quality musical entertainment which was in the capable hands of popular resort keyboard … Continue reading Brookdale’s afternoon tea with a difference to celebrate halloween