Disabled Living Foundation (DLF)
Disabled Living Foundation is a national charity providing impartial advice, information and training on independent living since 1969.
Visitors to their website will find that DLF offers many ways to find out about daily living and assistive technology. Their Living Made Easy section offers advice on useful equipment for inside and outside the home. Whilst their award-winning online advice guide tool helps if you’re unsure what items might be right for you. There’s also a helpline that you can use for free, impartial advice about mobility products or other types of daily living equipment for older and disabled people.
Stannah supports independent living in the home and hopes to encourage people with mobility challenges to be better informed.
Find out more by visiting their website www.dlf.org.uk or if you prefer, call their helpline on 0300 999 0004.
Rica
Rica is an independent consumer research charity providing free, practical and unbiased reports for older and disabled people.
They carry out various research on everything from products to services and publish the information they find to enable disabled and older people to live independently.
Rica are also actively involved with a number of groups and working parties who are specifically concerned with consumer issues around products and service for older and disabled people.
You can find out more about Rica by visiting their website at www.rica.org.uk