If you struggle with daily tasks like remembering to take medication, preparing a meal, washing or dressing or moving around your home, or need a personal alarm or smoke detector (also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline) use our home equipment finder below to buy things that can help you stay well and independent at home.
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Abilia
Assistive technology, for example time and planning aids that helps people feel safe, independent and able to participate by creating structure in their daily lives, control of their home environment and the ability to call for assistance.
Accessible clothing
Adaptive clothing for assisted dressing and for anyone who struggles with self-dressing.
Acoustic trigger doorbells
Various options are available including doorbells with flashing symbol, adjustable loud sound or bright strobe lights.
Audible blood pressure monitors
These can read out the blood pressure reading.
Audio books, e-books, e-magazines
Listen to audio books, or read e-books, e-magazines, e-comics etc on most devices and smartphones. See also talking newspapers.
Bath lifts and boards
Bath lifts can help people get in and out of the bath and can be helpful for those with balance and mobility issues, whilst bath boards can be used for people who are able to sit over the bath. See also shower seats and boards.
Bath steps
Reduce the height needed to lift someone's legs when getting into and out of the bath.
Bathroom aids
These can help with personal hygiene.
Be my eyes
Connects blind and low-vision users who want sighted assistance with volunteers and businesses anywhere in the world, through live video and artificial intelligence.
Bed sensors and alarms
These monitor a user's vital signs such as heart rate and breathing patterns and can detect a range of patterns, for example epileptic seizures whilst the user is in bed. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline. In Surrey your local district or borough council offers a wide range of personal alarms and sensors. See also bed voice alarms/sensors and floor sensor mats.
Bed voice alarms and 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. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers a wide range of personal alarms and sensors. See also bed sensors and alarms and floor sensor mats.
Big button telephones
These can make dialing numbers easier.
Blood pressure monitors
These allow you to keep track of your blood pressure readings in your own home.
Bogus Caller Alarm
Can be used if a stranger requests or tries to force entry. In Surrey your local district or borough council offer bogus caller alarms. See also Telecare and lifeline alarms.
Bottle and jar openers
These make opening lids on bottles and jars much easier.
Brain in Hand
Offers simple tools for managing everyday anxiety or being overwhelmed. Gives easy access to personalised support from your phone.
Button hooks and zip pulls
These can make the difficult task of buttoning or zipping up clothes easier.
Call buttons and falls detectors
These are useful in places where falls can happen such as bathrooms and bedrooms. In Surrey your local district or borough council offers careline buttons and boxes. Some call buttons are also called personal alarms, please also see Personal Alarms. See also falls sensors and detectors.
Can openers
These can help opening pull off can lids easier.
Carbon monoxide alarms and sensors
These detect dangerous concentrations of carbon monoxide within your home. Also available are alarms with loud alarms and flashing red lights. Some can be monitored through your smartphone or device. See also smoke alarms, and alarms, sensors and detectors.
Carer alert system
An internal alarm system to alert carers or family members within the property. The system can link with other kinds of devices and sensors.
Chair sensors
These can sound an alarm or beep to encourage someone to return to their chair. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors.
Combs and brushes
Long handled combs and brushes are designed to provide maximum reach with minimum effort.
Commodes
Can help if someone struggles accessing a normal toilet.
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
These can offer pictures, voice and video reminder alarms.
Door cameras
In Surrey Buckinghamshire and Surrey Trading Standards offer to loan door cameras for free.
Door contact alarms
These trigger an alarm if the door (or window) is opened at an unusual time. See also wandering door and window alarm.
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.
Easy to use tablets
These can offer specially designed features.
EasyReaders
Provides iOS and Android reading apps for people with dyslexia, low vision or who have a visual impairment.
Enuresis alert alarms and sensors
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.
Envision AI
Allows you to use your camera to scan any piece of text, your surroundings, objects people or products and will read everything 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. See also bed sensors and alarms.
Falls sensors and detectors
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. See also Call buttons.
Flood alarms and detectors
Anti-flooding devices can keep the home safe by releasing water from baths and sinks when they become too full. Flooding alarms can detect when the water reaches a certain level and sound an alarm, usually by placing over the side of the bath or sink. In Surrey your local borough or district council offers flood detectors.
Floor sensor mats
Can send an alert when someone steps or sits on the mat unexpectedly. See also bed sensors and alarms, and bed voice alarms.
Gardening aids
These can make enjoying your garden easier.
Gas detectors
Gas alarms will give audible and/or visible alarms when levels of gas in a room start to increase. See also heat and smoke detectors.
Glucose monitoring kits
Provide readings of your blood sugar levels. Some also give 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.
Grab rails
Grab rails can be used near a toilet, bath or shower to help with balance and support. Folding and suction versions also available. Grab rails can also be used outside or elsewhere around the home.
Half steps
Can help when a doorstep is too high by lowering the distance.
Health and activity trackers
Health and activity trackers can be borrowed from any of Surrey's libraries. They track your activity levels as well as monitoring heart rate, sleep quality and stress levels.
Hear Me Now
Capture what matters to you in a single user friendly place. Add text, photos, video, audio, and links to information, into named boxes you create.
Hearing aid compatible mobile phones
These reduce the interference with hearing aids, which can 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. See also smoke alarms and alarms, sensors and detectors and gas detectors.
Help travelling
Use it to request to book assistance for rail journeys.
Home Hubs
Home hubs respond to voice commands to help you control electric devices in your home � for example 'turn off the lights', remind you of appointments or when to take medication, and call people from your mobile. They can be 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.
Indoor walking trolleys
Walking trolleys can help provide extra support when moving around. You can carry meals, hot drinks and other items between rooms safely. See also wheelchairs, walking sticks and walking frames.
Instant hot water/boiling water tap
Jointly
Makes communication between people who share care easier. Offers group messaging, medication lists, calendar options and more.
Just Roaming
Gives realtime monitoring and alerts from sensors which are installed in the property. Useful for adults with a learning disability or autism.
Kettle tippers
Can help people raise their kettle without spilling.
Key safes
Keysafes are strong metal boxes in which the key to your door can be securely stored. Your keys can be accessed by a combination code which will only be known to you and anyone you give the code to.
Kitchen scales
Talking kitchen scales can announce weight and volumes, and some also have tactile buttons.
Kitchen workstation
Food preparation board with additional aids to help the user with day to day kitchen tasks.
Knob turners
Can make gripping and turning little knobs easier.
Large print keyboards for visually impaired
These can help make typing easier.
Leg lifter
Can help with lifting someone's leg up when getting into bed or dressing.
LetMeTalk
Free augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app that provides everyone with a voice, including those who can't speak. The app allows people to line up images in a meaningful way to be read as a sentence.
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 and tracker fobs
Location and 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
These can be fitted for free to your exiting gas cooker pipework. When the valve is locked, the gas supply to the cooker is stopped.
Measuring jugs
Large print or talking measuring jugs make accurate measuring easy.
Memory prompt calendar and diaries
Can set alarms so reminders to go off at certain times.
Microwave ovens
Talking microwaves can speak the different functions and settings.
Movement and motion sensors
These alarms detect 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.
My Choice Pad
A language and communication app that uses Makaton symbols (a simple type of sign language), signs and signing videos in addition to your own photos and audio.
One cup hot water dispensers/kettles
These rapidly boil enough water just for only one cup.
Outdoor walking rollators
Usually offer a perch to rest, as well as storage space for shopping. See also Indoor walking trolleys, and wheelchairs, walking sticks and walking frames.
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.
Perching stools and chairs
These can help support you whilst preparing meals or washing in a bathroom.
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. Some personal alarms can be worn as watches, and when used out and offer tracking/locator options as well as panic or help options. These are also as community alarms, telecare and Careline. In Surrey, your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors.
Pill dispenser apps
Apps can be used for setting messages to alert users on their smartphones or devices to take their medication. See also pill dispensers.
Pill dispensers with or without alarms
Lockable dispensers remind people when to take their medication. Some have a visual or sound alarms. In Surrey your local district or borough council offers a wide range of personal alarms and sensors. See also pill dispenser apps.
Pill poppers
An easy way to remove pills and tablets from blister packs. Useful for people with limited dexterity.
Protective outerwear
Protective outerwear for wheelchair users.
Raised toilet seats
These can make it easier for people to sit and get up from a toilet.
Ramps
For wheelchair and mobility scooter users.
Remote control plugs and sockets
These 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 or device.
Robot pet therapy
Pet therapy can help people cope with a health problem.
Robot vacuum cleaners
These can be programmed with different cleaning cycles.
Screen magnifiers
These enlarge on-screen text and images up to 64 times the original size. Some also offer features like changing the cursor and screen colours.
Sensor night lights
Ideal for when someone gets up at night. When the sensor senses movement the light will come on.
Sensory alarm clocks
Can help people with a visual impairment.
Shoe horns
Can help to guide a person's foot into their shoe.
Shower seats and boards
Shower seats and stools allow people to sit whilst having a shower. See also bath lifts and boards.
Simple and large button TV remote controls
Provides only a few large buttons and options for easy to use channel changing.
Simple USB players and music players
Simple personal audio players are accessible and easy to use.
Smart blinds
Open and close blinds with your smartphone or device.
Smart curtain tracks
These allow you to open and close your curtains remotely via your smartphone or device.
Smart dishwashers
These allow you to operate, control and monitor using your smartphone or device.
Smart entry devices
Smart door locks don't need a key to open them and can be controlled through your smartphone or device. See also video doorbells, smart security alarms and systems, smart security cameras and smart doorbells.
Smart fridges and freezers
Allow you to connect and monitor your fridge freezer using your smartphone or device, as well as controlling the internal temperatures in case the door isn't closed properly.
Smart glasses
Use voice commands to capture memories, make calls, send messages, or listen to music. Can be used to help describe surrounding, identify objects, reading out text and translating menus etc.
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 or device.
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. Can be controlled by your smartphone or device, and some by voice control.
Smart light switches
Control your lights via a smartphone or device.
Smart ovens
Allows you to switch your oven on and off using a smartphone or device.
Smart security alarms and systems
Allows you to monitor the outside of your house and secure the house from your phone, tablet or device. Some can be voice controlled. See also smart door bells, video doorbells, smart entry devices, and smart security cameras.
Smart security cameras
Allows you to monitor the inside and, or outside of your home day and night from your smartphone or device. See also smart security alarms and systems, smart door locks and smart doorbells.
Smart showers
These can be operated remotely or with voice controls. Some are compatible with Alexa or Google Home.
Smart smoke alarm and detectors
Can give early warnings including where the danger is, and allows you to check the status on your smartphone or device or calls a call centre. See also Alarm, sensors and detectors.
Smart toilets
These help minimise the spread of germs. Some have built in bidets, sensors, automatic flushing and/or cleaning.
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, devices 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 via a smartphone or device.
Smart window openers
Allow peoples to open and close windows remotely or automatically on a programmed schedule.
Smoke alarms and detectors
When these sense smoke they sound a loud alarm. See also Alarms, sensors and detectors.
Speech recognition software
These take spoken words and transcribe them into text.
Stairlifts
Stairlifts can help you move upstairs and downstairs even if your stairs are curved.
Strobe and talking smoke alarms
Flashing or strobe smoke alarms can be useful for people who are deaf or have a hearing impairment. See also carbon monoxide alarms and alarms, sensors and detectors.
Synapptic software for visually impaired
These 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 newspapers
Talking newspapers are free newspapers for people with a visual impairment. See also audio books, e-books, e-newspapers and e-comics.
Talking photo albums
These allow people to hear pre-recorded audio messages from family or friends alongside a collection of personal photographs.
Talking telephones
Offer talking keys and 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 and 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. These are also known as community alarms, telecare and Careline. In Surrey, your local borough or district council offers a range of personal alarms and sensors. See also bogus caller alarms.
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.
Toilet frames and rails
Fit around the toilet to provide added support when standing and sitting.
Tracking and locator watches
GPS tracking and locator watches can be used to indicate locations of people via smartphones, devices or by going online.
Transcribe app
Designed to help Deaf and the hard of hearing community make calls by providing a transcribe facility. Also able to communicate via a keyboard with text to voice if speech is also a problem
trueCall
Blocks unwelcome landline calls, and asks unrecognised callers to identify themselves before it puts them through, whilst letting friends and family straight through.
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 allow you to chat online, as well as sharing screens.
Video doorbells
These doorbells allow you to see, hear and speak to your visitors via your smartphone or device. See also smart entry devices, smart doorbells and door cameras.
Walking frames
These can help people get around safely and more confidently. See also wheelchairs, walking sticks and walking frames, indoor walking trolleys, walking sticks, and walking rollators.
Walking sticks
These can help people get around safely and more confidently. See also wheelchairs, walking sticks and walking frames, indoor walking trolleys and walking rollators.
Wandering door or window alarm
Alerts a carer if a monitored door or window is opened. See also door contact alarms.
Waterproof call buttons
These are useful in places where falls can happen such as bathrooms, and options include waterproof call buttons. See also fall alarms and detectors.
Wheelchairs, walking sticks and walking frames
These can help you get around and feel more confident and prevent falls. See also indoor walking trolleys and walking rollators.Can't find what you're looking for? Search again.