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A - Z Information Directory


Please click on a letter below to find the service you are interested in.

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Safety & Security
For the Rhondda Cynon Taff Area - contact Cynon Valley Crime Prevention Association Ltd (Pro-Tect Scheme).
For the Merthyr Tydfil Area - contact Safer Merthyr Tydfil (SMT).
For the Bridgend Area - contact Bridgend Care & Repair.

Smoke alarms will be fitted free of charge by the South Wales Fire Service, (vibrating smoke alarms for the hard of hearing) who carry out a home fire safety risk assessment.

Bogus callers should be reported immediately to South Wales Police.

Contact your gas, electricity and water suppliers and ask them about their password schemes to reduce the risk from bogus callers.


Schizophrenia
For help, support and advice for people affected by severe mental illness and their families contact Rethink or Hafal.
See also MIND.


Sheltered Housing – See Housing.


Shopping
Contact local shops for details of local home delivery services. Many stores provide online shopping. Some of the larger stores may provide help in-store for disabled people.

Some towns operate Shopmobility Schemes, which hire out wheelchairs or electric scooters.


Sight Loss
Sight tests are free for everyone over 60.  Further information available under ‘Opticians and Glasses’.

To register as blind or partially sighted, visit your GP and ask to be referred to a consultant. The consultant will carry out an assessment to decide whether the person is blind or partially sighted and then forward a report onto the relevant Social Services departments, who will arrange a visit.

Information also available from Wales Council for the Blind, ‘RNIB’.

Big Print is the only national weekly newspaper available in large print and can be purchased on subscription in the UK from RNIB. Low vision aids are available from opticians taking part in the Welsh Assembly Low Vision Scheme. For aids such as adapted phones contact: Social Services departments, RNIB or Partially Sighted Society. Wide range of large print books and talking books available through libraries, RNIB and ‘Listening Books’


Smoke Alarms – see ‘Safety and Security’.


Social Activities
Contact the Elderly organise afternoon teas on a monthly basis for housebound people Refer also to leisure centres, libraries, adult education centres, etc. See also ‘Voluntary Work’. Try Rhondda Cynon Taff CBC Community Information Database which is on their website.


Solicitors – See ‘Legal Advice’.

Stairlifts
See Disabled Facilities Grant.
Alternatively Care & Repair or your local Disabled Living Centre can advise. You can also visit our advant~AGE Products and Services page to learn more about the discounts being offered to advant~AGE customers by Stannah. Telephone numbers and addresses of private companies are also available from Yellow Pages (some companies will provide free consultations).


Stroke
For help and advice for stroke sufferers and their families contact the Stroke Association.

Swimming
RCT, Bridgend & Merthyr county boroughs all operate a free swimming policy for the over 60s. The applicants can pick up a form direct from any pool. The applicant will then be sent a pass which entitles them to swim free at any pool within the borough.