Our services

We see older people over 65 years old for a range of reasons including mental health difficulties, cognitive difficulties and other issues that arise during late adulthood.

Community Mental Health Team provides a wide range of support for people seeking specialist assessment and treatment for a mental health difficulty.

Cragside ward is an inpatient dementia assessment and treatment unit and aims to provide a comprehensive and holistic assessment of the older person’s physical, psychological, behavioural, social and spiritual needs.

The Dementia Nurse Practitioner assess/support patients with dementia and their families whilst in hospital.

Identifying frailty in people aged 65+ using the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale.

Gateshead Older Persons Mental Health Liaison Service offers high-quality and responsive mental health assessment/care/advice to older people who are inpatients within the QE Hospital.

Parkinson's disease is a a slow, progressive disease of the brain affecting learned voluntary movements such as walking, talking, dressing, turning over in bed, writing and leisure activities.

Sunniside ward is an acute mental health inpatient unit based the Gateshead site for patients presenting with functional mental health difficulties.