Useful External Links
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Equlity Act 2010 (taken over from Disability Discrimination Act )
PDF of Equality Act 2010 (251 pages)
Current – Benefit and Pension Rates
Overview on financial assistance for disabled people
Carers and Disability Benefits General information and Benefit Enquiry Line Freephone: 0800 882 200
Specific Allowances:
Disability Living Allowance and the new PIPs (Personal Independence Payment) will work from April 2013
Exemption from VAT on products and services due to disability – Inland Revenue information
NHS Services Director – find a GP, Dentist
Mood Self Assessment online tool
Symptom Checker online tool
Mindfulness – Headspace online or on Android or Apple App
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – various links:
- NHS Choices Website
- NICE Guidelines 2005 on PTSD
- What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? – NHS Choices Website
- What is EMDR (‘Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing’)?
MyFitness Pal – online and mobile App – calorie counting approach
12 Tips for a successful diet – NHS website
College of Occupational Therapists list of English Housing Legislation
Applying for a Community Alarm eg Piper Lifeline or Careline
Disabled Facilities Grants for adaptations to your home
Council Tax discounts for disabled people
TV Licence is free if you are over 75 or are registered blind
Request Clinical Waste Collection eg incontinence pads, syringes, dressings
Download FREE App to iPhone or iPad to visualise stairlift in your own home
Exhibition of 55 energy saving homes in Bauzentrum Poing, Bavaria, Germany
Wheelchair Users – Factsheet
Highway Code for Mobility Scooters – booklet
The law on use of powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters including explanation on Class 1, 2 & 3 vehicles
Motability for Scooters or Wheelchairs
Everything you need to know about mobility scooters
Wheelfreedom – short term hire & home delivery of wheelchairs and powerpack
Freedom Wheelchair Skills – Learn Essential Everyday Skills with Stuart
DVLA regulations for disabled drivers
DVAL older drivers – after 70 years of age you need to reapply for your licence
Motability scheme to obtain a car or wheelchair accessible vehicle
Choosing a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV)
List of UK vehicle converters & contact details
What to do if your car breaks down
Eyesight requirements to drive – DVLA Rules
Rules on applying earlier for a driving licence for young disabled people
Rules on exemption from Road Tax for disabled people
Common Traffic Signs – poster
The recruitment of disabled employees
Employment & Support Allowance
Access to Work provides assistance with finding and maintaining disabled people at work
Disabled Employment Advisors & assistance with finding work as a disabled person
List of personal injury solicitors can be found at Association for Personal Injury Lawyers (apil)
Travelling with medication – rules of different countries
Foreign & Comonwealth Office advice for disabled travellers
Access to Air Travel for Disabled Persons – Code of Practice
USA – Travel Accessibility Resources for the Disabled and Handicapped
Parkat – Information on Airports
Best Airlines for Disabled People
Flat Spaces purpose built disabled holiday bungalows
Canal Holidays for disabled people
UK City Profiles for Disabled People
Adventure Holidays for Disabled People
www.tripbuzz.com/wheelchair-accessible-travel-guide
MobilityAbroad.com – hire of equipment on holiday
Ability Net – free IT help for disabled people
AbilityNet Online Assessment Tool
Keytools – Making IT easier with range of products Mice / Keyboards / Accessories / Laptop stands / Software
Richard Hirstwood’s YouTube video ideas
Example of sensory garden for older people
Sensory loss especially sight see The Thomas Pocklington Trust – Practical Guidance
Combined hearing and sight impairment – Information from The Thomas Pocklington Trust
Dementia Services Development Centre (University of Stirling) lots of information including training, housing and much, much more.
Online Virtual Care Home with drawings of different rooms and pointers to how to make life easier for people with memory difficulites.
Online Dementia Enabling Environments (Australian) – Excellent resource for families – similar to the above but specific to people living at home
Book: Designing Outdoor Spaces for people with Dementia where to buy
Book: Designing Interiors for People with Dementia 4th Edition where to buy
Book: 10 Helpful Hints for dementia design at home – Easy to read guide for carers of people with dementia
Book: Lighting and Lighting Design for people with Dementia
Assistive Technology to buy to help people with dementia from www.ATDementia.org.uk
Free download: Home Solutions 2
Free download from the National Housing Federation: Dementia Finding Housing Solutions
Dementia and Visual Impairments including hallucinations from Thomas Pocklington Trust