We provide an integrated equipment and minor
adaptations service for people with disabilities across North
Somerset.
These items improve quality of life by helping with
everyday activities such as moving around and bathing.
The equipment can include shower chairs, hoists, pressure relieving
mattresses. Minor adaptations such as grab rails, stair rails
and ramps can be installed in your home.
We provide this equipment with the help
of North Somerset
Primary Care Trust and Medequip Assistive Technology
Ltd
Equipment services are provided as a result of an assessment of
your needs. You need to contact the following people or
services so your needs can be assessed:
- For wheelchair and walking aids contact your doctor
- For nursing and pressure care contact the district nurse at
your doctor’s surgery
- For general equipment and adaptations to your
home contact our Adult Social Services and Housing
department
Further information and advice is available
from
Care Connect More information about equipment
services is also available in our downloadable
Equipment Services factsheet.
There are also a number of local organisations which offer
advice, information and assessment on indoor and outdoor mobility
and enjoying your hobbies and leisure.
Living
in Bristol can also give you free and impartial advice on available
services. You can contact the centre via email
at info@thisisliving.org.uk
or on 01179 653 651 or via Minicom on 01179 653 652.
It is based at the Vassall Centre in Gill Avenue, Fishponds, and is
open from 10am until 4pm between Monday and Friday.
The Living made
easy website gives impartial advice and information about
daily living equipment products and other aspects of independent
living.
The site has been developed by the
Disabled Living
Foundation and contains a great deal of useful advice for
anyone looking to buy products that might help their daily lives,
as well as videoclips of equipment in use.
You can't buy equipment directly from the site but you can check
pricing where available, compare items and get contacts details of
all the suppliers of the item.
