If you struggle with daily tasks like remembering to take medication, preparing a meal or moving around your home, use our home equipment finder below to buy things that can help you stay well and independent at home.
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Accessible clothing
Clothing for wheelchair users with a focus on adaptive fashion.
Acoustic trigger doorbells
Offers a portable chime unit which alerts you to the different events with a flashing symbol, adjustable loud sound and a bright strobe light.
Anti-flooding alarms
Anti-flooding devices can keep the home safe by releasing water from baths and sinks when they become too full. Flooding alarms detect when the water reaches a certain level and sounds an alarm, usually by placing over the side of the bath or sink.
Audio books
Allow you to listen to audio books on most smartphones and devices.
Bath lifts and boards
Bath lifts can help people get in and out of the bath and can be especially helpful for those with balance and mobility issues, whilst bath boards can be used for people who can sit over the bath.
Bed sensor/alarm
These monitor a user's vital signs such as heart rate and breathing patterns and can detect a range of patterns, eg epileptic seizures whilst the user is in bed. In Surrey your local district or borough council offers a wide range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Bed voice alarms/sensors
These trigger an alert which sounds a beep or a voice alert and encourages the patient to return to bed and helps in falls prevention. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers a wide range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Big button telephones
Can make dialing numbers easier.
Blood pressure monitors
Audible blood pressure monitors can provide an audible output of the reading.
Bogus Caller Alarm
Can be used if a stranger requests or tries to force entry.
Button hooks
These can make the difficult task of buttoning clothes easier.
Call buttons
These are useful in places where falls can happen such as bathrooms and bedrooms. Call buttons are also called personal alarms, please also see Personal Alarms.
Can openers
These can help lift pull off can lids easier.
Carbon monoxide alarms
Detect dangerous concentrations of carbon monoxide within your home. Also available are alarms with loud alarms and flashing red lights.
Chair sensors
Can sound an alarm or beep to encourage someone to return to their chair. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Combs
Long handles combs are designed to provide maximum reach with minimum effort.
Daisy players
Specifically designed to make listening to DAISY books or music CDs as easy as possible for blind or partially sighted people.
Dementia clocks
Clocks for people with dementia can offer pictures, voice and video reminder alarms.
Door contact alarms
These trigger an alarm if the door is opened at an unusual time.
Dressing sticks
These are ideal for people whose reach, dexterity or ability to bend is limited.
Easy grip mugs
These reduce any spill risk and can help the user gain independence.
EasyReaders
Provides iOS and Android reading apps for people with dyslexia, low vision and who have a visual impairment.
Enuresis alert alarms
These alarms provide an early alert for individuals prone to incontinence. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers a wide range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Envision AI
Allows you to use your camera to scan any piece of text, your surroundings, objects people or products and everything will be read out to you.
Epilepsy bed sensors
Sensors can monitor movement and raise an alert when they detect repetitive motion that is common with Tonic Clonic seizures. In Surrey your local district or borough council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Falls sensors
Can monitor when someone has fallen and needs assistance. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Floor sensor mats
Can send an alert when someone steps or sits on the mat unexpectedly.
Gas detectors
Gas alarms will give audible and/or visible alarms when levels of gas in a room start to increase.
Glucose monitoring kits
Blood sugar monitors can provide readings, and some can also provide an audible output of the reading.
Google Live Transcribe
Offers free, real time, speech-to-text transcriptions which could help people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
GPS trackers/locators
Offer tracking on smartphones. Some devices can talk to people, or send alerts to them.
Grab rails
Grab rails can be used near a toilet, bath or shower to help with balance and support and folding and suction versions also available.
Hearing aid compatible mobile phones
Reduce the interference with hearing aids, which cause buzzing or noises.
Heat detectors
Heat detector alarms are triggered by rises is ambient heat, rather than smoke and can detect fires rather than smoke.
Home Hubs
Home hubs respond to voice commands to help you control electric devices in your home � eg 'turn off the lights', remind you of appointments or when to take medication, and call people from your mobile. They are helpful for people with mobility issues, low vision or dementia.
iDentifi
An iPhone App which enables the user to click on a photo and recognises objects, colours, brands, facial handwriting and text. It works in 27 languages.
Kitchen scales
Talking kitchen scales can announce weight and volumes, and some also have tactile buttons.
Liquid level indicators
Cup or liquid level indicators can be put on the side of cups etc and then use audio or vibrations to say when the liquid is near the top of the cup.
Location/tracker fobs
Location/tracker fobs can be attached to keyrings or any item and can then be tracked by using a smartphones or device to find it.
Locking Cooker Valves
A simple safety device, which can be fitted for free, to your existing gas cooker pipework. When the valve is locked, the gas supply to the cooker is stopped.
Measuring jugs
Large print on the measuring jugs makes accurate measuring easy.
Memory diary
Can be programmed or messages recorded with reminder messages for activities, eg taking medication, locking doors and appointments.
Memory prompt calendar
Can set alarms so reminders to go off at certain times.
Microwave ovens
Talking microwaves speak the different functions and settings.
Movement sensors
This alarm detects movement or lack of it, by monitoring activity. In Surrey, your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Pan stirrers
These can be placed in a pan with any simmering or low heat liquid and be set to stir. Some have a timer for how long they will stir for.
Personal alarms
Personal alarms can help when moving around safely in your home. Personal alarms can be linked to monitors within the home and intercoms to mobile apps which can trigger an alarm or send an alert to a monitoring centre. In Surrey, your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Pill dispenser apps
Apps can be used for setting messages to alert users on their smartphones to take their medication.
Pill dispensers with alarms
Lockable dispensers remind people when to take their medication with a visual or sound alarm.
Protective outerwear
Protective outerwear for wheelchair users.
Remote control plugs and sockets
Remote control plugs and sockets are controlled by a remote control and do not need a smartphone or device to control them.
Robot mops
These can be programmed with different cleaning cycles via a smartphone.
Robot pet therapy
Pet therapy can help people cope with a health problem or mental health issue.
Robot vacuum cleaners
These can be programmed with different cleaning cycles.
Screen magnifiers
Enlarge on-screen text and images up to 64 times the original size. Some also offer features like changing the cursor and screen colours.
Security alarms and systems
Allows you to monitor the outside of your house and secure the house.
Sensor night lights
Ideal for when someone gets up at night. When the sensor senses movement the light will come on.
Shower seats and boards
Shower seats and stools allow people to sit whilst having a shower.
Simple and large button TV remote controls
Provides only a few large buttons/options for easy to use channel changing.
Simple USB players
Simple personal audio players are accessible and easy to use.
Smart curtain tracks
Allows you to open and close your curtains remotely via your phone, tablet or smart device.
Smart dishwashers
These allow you to operate, control and monitor using your smartphone.
Smart entry devices
Smart door locks don't need a key to open them and can be controlled through your smartphone.
Smart fridges and freezers
Allow you to connect using your smartphone as well as control internal temperatures in case the door isn't closed properly.
Smart heaters
Can be switched on and off and temperature controlled using a smartphone.
Smart heating controls
Allows you to control your heating through your smartphone.
Smart kettles
Allows you to time when your kettle turns on, as well controlling the temperature so you know how hot the water will be.
Smart light switches
Can control your lights via a smartphone or device.
Smart ovens
Allows you to switch your oven on and off using a smartphone.
Smart security alarms and systems
These combine features of a traditional burglar alarms with the ability to monitor, control and interact with your home from an app on your smartphone or tablet. Some also allow voice activation.
Smart security cameras
Allows you to monitor the inside and/or outside of your home day and night.
Smart smoke alarm
Can give early warnings including where the danger is, and allows you to check the status on your smartphone or calls a call centre.
Smart toothbrushes
Can check whether someone has brushed their teeth or how well they have brushed their teeth by connecting to an app on a tablet or smartphone.
Smart TVs
Can be controlled through home hubs and smartphones.
Smart washing machines
Can remember someone's laundry habits and suggest favourite cycles, as well as being able to let someone schedule washes from anywhere.
Smart window openers
Allow peoples to open and close windows remotely or automatically on a programmed schedule.
Speech recognition software
These take spoken words and transcribe them into text.
Stairlift
Stairlifts can help you move upstairs and downstairs even if your stairs are curved.
Strobe smoke alarms
Flashing or strobe smoke alarms can be useful for people who are deaf or have a hearing impairment.
Synapptic software for visually impaired
Make it easier for blind or visually impaired people to use android tablets and phones, with easy to follow menus, large high contrast text and voice control.
Talking induction hobs
These offer talking functions and tactile buttons.
Talking microwave ovens
Talking microwaves speak the different functions and settings.
Talking Newspapers
Talking newspapers are free newspapers for people with a visual impairment.
Talking photo albums
These allow someone with a memory impairment to hear pre-recorded audio messages from family or friends alongside a collection of personal photographs.
Talking smoke alarms
Talking smoke alarms can be useful for people with a visual impairment.
Talking telephones
Offer talking keys - voice assist for dialing numbers.
Talking watches
Large display watches or talking watches are useful for people with visual impairments and can be set up with alarms and visual announcements.
Telecare / Lifeline alarms
Lifeline alarms connect with specialised teams. Usually a call operator will respond appropriately to the individual circumstances by calling a relative or family friend, or the emergency services. The alarms operate 24/7, 365 days a year. In Surrey, your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline.
Telephones with photos
Offer one-touch numbers with pictures on the base to aid memory.
Telephones with visual indicators
Have backlights to illuminate the buttons, making them easier to read to reduce the risk of incorrect dialling.
TIHM (Technology Integrated Health Management) Remote Monitoring Service
A free of charge, remote monitoring service which is available to people of any age who have been diagnosed with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and people aged 65 and over who have a diagnosis of depression and/or anxiety. Regular carers supporting people who qualify for TIHM will also be offered the Service.
Toilet equipment
A range of products to help if you struggle to use the toilet.
Tracking/locator watches
GPS tracking/locator watches can be used to indicate locations of people via smartphones or by going online.
Vibrating pad doorbells
The strobe indicator can give visual indication, ideal for a person who has a hearing impairment or loud environments and the vibrating pad is ideal for use at night.
Vibrating pillow alarm
These can go under a pillow and create a buzz or vibrate which someone can feel rather than hear.
Vibrating watches
Vibrating watches can be useful for people who are deaf or have a hearing impairment as they can be set to vibrate.
Video conferencing
These offer added options to chat along with sharing screens.
Video doorbells
These doorbells allow you to see, hear and speak to your visitors via your phone, or tablet.
Wandering door or window alarm
Alerts a carer if a monitored door or window is opened.
Waterproof call buttons
These are useful in places where falls can happen such as bathrooms, and options include waterproof call buttons.
Wristwatch trackers/locators
Wearable devices that can offer tracking/locating, and sometimes communication with the wearer.Can't find what you're looking for? Search again.
