Adult Services
At Sight Action we can help adults improve their independent living skills to help them cope safely and confidently at home.
We have a wide range of equipment available and we also help people think of different ways to carry out tasks to make them easier. Here are some useful examples:
Products:
- Improve TV viewing with glasses or a screen.
- A large button phone may help with phoning.
- Suitable lighting like daylight bulbs in the right place can improve conditions around the home.
- Talking watches and clocks, or with large clear faces, will help too.
- We can help with kitchen storage, marking tins or advising to always store groceries, cleaning materials, etc, in their own place.
- A liquid level indicator may help you judge when pouring liquids.
- We have talking scales and microwave ovens plus baking and cooking equipment like Dycem mats which keep cups etc in place and contrast well against worktops.
- Mark cookers, microwave ovens or washing machines with bumpons - small coloured dots that enable users to feel and locate the required programme temperatures.
- Different shapes of bottles can help users distinguish shampoo from conditioner, or shaving foam.
- We can supply a dispenser to help put in eye drops or toothpaste on the brush.
- Marking the bath with a contrasting colour may actually allow users to find it or a bumpon on the shower control can indicate the correct temperature.
- We have a tape library facility.
- We can advise on colour co-ordination or contrast, or doing different chores at different times of the day. Whatever the problem we aim to help solve it!
- Our low vision aid assessment can cover appropriate task lighting, sitting positions, typoscopes and magnifiers.
- Our large range of magnifiers includes very weak hand held magnifiers to very strong fixed-focused ones with lights.
- We do individual assessments, taking account of eye condition and what the magnifier is needed for. We will show how to use the equipment and we may also arrange a follow-up visit to our Mobile Resource Unit (MRU) or person's home.
Download our Lighting Guide leaflet (in Microsoft Publisher format)
Text version of Lighting Guide leaflet