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Disability equipment services are services that enable elderly disabled people to access products for their personal use. These are products designed solely for chronically sick or disabled people. Professional staff, mainly qualified Occupational Therapists who are also known as OTs, assess peoples needs for disability equipment and aids. An assessment of your individual needs for disability equipment and disability aids, either by Social or Health Care Professionals, is important to obtaining the right aids and equipment for your own needs. Disability aids and equipment facilitate independence at home, and Occupational Therapists enable people with disabilities to carry out daily living activities, with the aim of maintaining or improving independence. Daily living activities mean any way in which people spend their time, from personal care (washing, dressing, toileting) to productivity (paid or unpaid work, housework, education) to leisure (games, sports, hobbies, social activities). Organisations can provide a range of products to help and support older people who have a physical disability and have difficulty managing everyday activities and have difficulty getting in and out and around your home. A specialist needs assessment can help you to access a range of equipment to meet your needs, enabling you to maintain your independence and safety in your own home. There is a large range of mobility aids and equipment, and an assessment for mobility aids and mobility equipment can help to recommend what is best for you – mobility aids and mobility equipment include stair lifts, wheelchairs, mobility scooters or buggies, and walking aids such as Zimmer frames, walkers, walking frames, mobility chairs, and walking sticks. There also is a wide range of daily living aids which can assist you to bathe, dress, prepare food and drinks, and enjoy leisure activities. Bathroom equipment can include bath seats, raised toilet seats, bath rails and commodes. Daily living equipment includes eating aids like adapted cutlery and plates, dressing aids such as gadgets to help with zippers or stockings, back cushions, as well as household aids such as trolleys and gadgets to help pick up things from the floor. There are hoists to help move someone, and bed blocks can make it easier to get in and out of bed by raising its height. Reading aids and writing aids also help older people to maintain their independence, and there is a range of equipment for people with a sensory disability such as flashing door bells and telephone aids for sight impaired people. Occupational Therapists can help with making a home safer for getting around by, for example, the installation of hand rails and ramps, or raising the height of the bed/chair so that standing up is much easier for a person with stiff, painful hips and knees, and reducing anxiety and helping people raise their confidence about getting around or managing their disability. At the same time they can assist carers to keep their caring role, by arranging the right aids and equipment for the cared for person. Disabled Living Centres may be able to arrange demonstrations of various equipment and aids, to help people who wish to purchase aids and equipment direct from suppliers. You can also visit the Disabled Living Foundation website for advice on choosing equipment.
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Hearing Aid Accessories
We are an online shop that sells to both the general public as well as professional bodies such as schools across the UK and now internationally.
Contact: Hearing Aid Accessories, 6 New Buildings, Floor 1, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1HW.
UK Veterans Hearing Foundation
We help veterans access the funding aftercare they need to live with their level of hearing loss
Contact: UK Veterans Hearing Foundation, 6 New Buildings, Top Floor, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1HW.
Advisory service
If you have a hearing loss and/or tinnitus, you may have trouble listening to the television, hearing the doorbell ring or chatting on the telephone. If this is so, you will benefit from a visit to Hearing Connect. On ap...
Contact: Hearing Connect, Juliius Newman House, Woodside Park Road, North Finchley, London, N12 8RP.
Home Lifts Experts
Home Lifts Experts offer customers advise and can recommend the right home lift based on budget, size of the lift, whether multi-floor or wheelchair access is required.
Contact: Home Lift Experts, Building 5, Bay 1, First Avenue,, Pensnett Estate, Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6 7TE.
Inspire Independent Living Centre
Inspire Independent Living Centre Inspire Community Trust is a user led organisation committed to promoting independent living. This is achieved by supporting disabled people and those who have sensory impairments to ma...
Contact: Inspire Community Trust, 20 Whitehall Lane, Slade Green, Kent, Kent DA8.
Lift Services
Invalifts offer platform, self supporting passenger lifts and stair platform lifts for internal and external use - and we’d love to help with your next project! We supply the shaft and we have amazingly s...
Contact: Invalifts Ltd, 6 Falcon Park, Claymore, Tame Valley Ind. Est., Tamworth, Staffordshire, B77 5DQ.
Adaptations and support to stay independent
Handyperson service This scheme can provide small DIY repairs and adaptations to the homes of residents living in the London Borough of Lewisham who are at least 60-years-old and/or disabled. These jobs do not include e...
Contact: Lewisham Homes.
Lifton Home Lifts
Lifton Home Lifts provide the user with simple, safe and easy way of transferring between the floors of the home without the need to use the stairs and are an ideal alternative to a stairlift.
Contact: Sales, Building 5, Bay 1, First Avenue, Pensnett Estate,, Kingswinford, West Midlands.
Social Care for Adults
We offer a range of services to people in need. Some of these services will help you to continue to live at home if this is what you want. If your assessment shows that you are eligible to receive services from the Counc...
Contact: London Borough of Bexley, Bexley Civic Offices, Broadway, Bexleheath, Kent, DA6 7LB.
Adaptations, aids and grants
A variety of grants are available available to residents in Brent to help you, or loved ones, remain independent and live safely in your home. These can be used to adapt a property, or to get help and support to repair ...
Contact: Adult Social Care.
Equipment and adaptations to the home
We aim to support you to live safely and as independently as possible. One of the ways we can do this is by providing equipment for daily living or an adaptation to your home. This might include:- stairlifts- wheelchair ...
Contact: Housing.
Equipment and Adaptations
For advice and details on products that can make daily living tasks easier, visit the AskSARA website (https://carersuk.livingmadeeasy.org.uk/). Occupational Therapist The Occupational Therapy Service helps people who ...
Contact: Social Care and Health.
Adaptations and equipment
Adaptations may include: - grab rails located in the bathroom or at the entrance- widening doors for wheelchair access- a level access shower- a stair lift- a ramp. All adaptations are considered by the Council's Occup...
Contact: Adult Social Care, Community Services , Hounslow House , 7 Bath Road , Hounslow , Greater London, TW3 3EB.
Equipment and adapations
If you are finding it difficult to manage in your home with daily living activities, an occupational therapist can help by giving advice and suggesting equipment to improve your independence...
Contact: Community Care Advice Centre, Aldborough Road North, Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7SR.
Redbridge Care
We can offer: Community Meals Short Breaks (Respite) Equipment and Adaptations Telecare Lifeline Concessionary Travel Supporting People Service Extra Care Sheltered Housing Healthy Lifestyles Healthy lifestyl...
Contact: London Borough of Redbridge, 128-142 High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1DD.
Staying in your home
Find out about what support services are available to help you live in your own home as independently as possible.
Contact: London Borough of Redbridge, Aldborough Road North, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7SR.
Occupational therapy services
If you struggle with everyday tasks because you're ill, frail or because of a disability, our occupational therapy service may be able to provide practical support to make things easier. For example, we can identify prac...
Contact: Adult Social Care, 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH.
Telecare - Living aids and equipment
f you have a disability there may be equipment or adaptations that can help you to live independently in your own home. Some of this equipment is available through high street retailers or your local chemist. Other opti...
Contact: Tower Hamlets Council, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BG.
Equipment to help with daily living
Advice and information about simple aids of daily living. How to get equipment You will need an assessment by an occupational therapist (https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/adult-social-care/help-managing-home/occupationa...
Contact: Adult Social Care.
London Care Plc
As well as support with home-based personal care and daily living tasks, we can assist with errands, managing personalfinances and accompanying people who want to get out for leisure, social, health or work purposes. We ...
Contact: London Care plc - Ruislip Office, Courtenay House, Courtenay Road, East Lane Business Centre, Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 7ND.