A DEMENTIA social club is being launched in a Barnsley village to prevent isolation and give carers some respite.

The Dementia Inspired Social Club - or DISC for short - will be based at Mapplewell and Staincross Village Hall on Darton Lane.

The hall’s manager, Sandra De-Donno, said a lot of people in the Darton East ward area are caring in their homes for relatives, friends and acquaintances who are affected with various stages of dementia.

“Dementia is a very complex and debilitating condition for the person concerned but also all-consuming for the carer leaving them lonely and isolated, having no sense of normality or everyday conversation in their lives what so ever,” she said.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle