All Aged Eating Disorder Service (AAEDS)

The All-Age Eating Disorder Service (AADS) for Kent and Medway is a specialist service that aims to bring hope and confidence, through help and support, to those who have an eating disorder, to enable them to take back control of their life by overcoming their eating disorder. They take clients from the age of eight.

They accept clients with:

• Anorexia nervosa  – when an individual tries to keep their weight as low as possible by not eating enough food, exercising too much, or both.
• Bulimia nervosa  – when an individual sometimes loses control and eats a lot of food in a very short amount of time (bingeing) and are then deliberately sick, use laxatives, restrict what they eat, to do too much exercise to stop themselves gaining weight.
• Binge eating disorder – when an individual regularly loses control of their eating, eat large portions of food all at once until they feel uncomfortably full, and are then often upset or guilty.
• Other specified feeding or eating disorder – when an individual’s symptoms do not exactly match those of anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder, but it does not mean it is a less serious illness.