Explore Local Services

A

• Access to Work
• Advice and information for people with low vision or visual impairment
• Alcohol
• Arthritis: Groups that support people with Arthritis, their carers and families
• Audiology: NHS Forth Valley Audiology services
• Avoiding rogue traders

B

• Benefits for the visually impaired
• Blue Badge Scheme
• Brain Injury: Groups that support people with a Brain Injury
• British Sign Language (BSL): Contact Scotland free BSL interpreting service

C

• Capability Scotland
• Cerebral Palsy: support for people with cerebral palsy, their carers, and families
• Community Alarm and Telecare Services (including the Mobile Emergency Care Service MECS)
• Computer or IT support for those with a visual impairment
• Concerned about memory loss - these groups may help

D

• Delivery of pre-prepared meals
• Demand Responsive Transport

E

• Energy Saving Trust Scotland
• Epilepsy: support for people with epilepsy, their carers, and families
• Equipment for those with low vision or visual impairment

F

• Fire Safety Check
• Fire Safety in the Home: Self Assessment

G

• Groups that can help with maintaining a healthy weight
• Groups that support people with mental health issues

H

• Hearing loss assessment
• Help and services around the home
• Help for stressful times
• Help for those with financial strain or worries
• Help with Instructions
• Hiring a Commode
• Hiring a motorised scooter or wheelchair to go shopping
• Home security check
• Huntington's Disease: support for people with Huntington's Disease, their carers, and families

I

• Independent sources for help and advice
• Independent sources of help and advice for older people
• Independent sources of help and advice for those with a disability
• Information on Concessionary Travel
• Information on Eye Conditions
• Information on Hiring Wheelchairs

L

• Learning disabilities: support for people with learning disabilities, their carers, and families
• Leisure activities and leisure discount cards
• Libraries: Large print books
• Local clubs and associations for deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and deafblind people
• Local groups that support and advise carers
• Local groups that support people with Parkinson's Disease
• Local groups that support people with alzheimers disease or dementia
• Local groups that support people with chest, heart or stroke problems
• Local help for deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and deafblind people
• Local help for those who may become confused or muddled when going out
• Local help for those who may have stopped going out or find if difficult to talk to people
• Local help to make your home warmer and more energy efficient
• Local organisations to talk to when feeling stressed, anxious or low due to a recent life event
• Local support for those who have had laryngectomees and their carers
• Local support to help with low mood or loss of interest
• Loneliness: self-help resources
• Low vision or visual impairment: Clubs, Social Groups and Associations
• Low vision: Low Vision Aids that may help with day-to-day tasks

M

• Meals and eating: Help for those who often forget mealtimes
• Mental Health: Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH)
• Mental health and well-being services
• Mental health and wellbeing: Living Life - help with low mood, depression or anxiety
• Mobility and a sight impairment
• Mobility help when shopping
• Multiple Sclerosis: Groups that support people with Multiple Sclerosis, their carers and families
• Multiple problems related to hearing loss

N

• National Entitlement Card

O

• Organisations that help the visually impaired
• Organisations who provide computer/IT support for those with a visual impairment

P

• People with disabilities: Local help and support
• Pet Fostering Service Scotland
• Places to try equipment for doing up or undoing buttons, hooks or zips
• Problems with your telephone

R

• Registering a visual impairment
• Rehabilitation training for the visually impaired
• Risk of Scalding

S

• Security and Staying Safe: how to improve the security of your home
• Security: support and advice if you have been a victim of burglary or would like to improve the security of your home
• Specialist shoe suppliers
• Staying Active
• Support available for those with cancer

T

• Talking Books
• Talking Newspapers: local news, magazines and other titles
• Taxicards information and how to apply
• Transport for visually impaired people
• Transport to and from hospital
• Try before you buy - regarding telephones
• Trying equipment for putting on socks or tights

U

• Upwards and Onwards - What to do if you fall

W

• Ways to help with stress and anxiety
• Wheelchair taxi services
• Where to be shown how to use a dressing stick