Sight or Hearing Loss Services
Helping you stay independent
Our Services
We offer many different services and types of support for people with sight or hearing loss living in the Royal Borough. We can provide:
- Practical help in your home, including a laundry service
- Help with your personal care, such as getting up, dressed and having a bath
- Help to support you carry out parental tasks if you are a disabled mum or dad
- Day services providing activities and meals
- Direct Payments funds to arrange and manage your own services and support instead of receiving a direct service from us
- Information and advice on managing difficulties caused by a lack of ability or disability, equipment to help you with daily living tasks and personal care, adaptations to your home including grab rails, stair rails, ramps, lifts, bathrooms, showers and wheelchair access.
- Services to help those who support and look after you to take a short break
- Meals delivered to your home
- Freedom Travel Passes, Taxi cards, and Blue Badge parking permits
- Residential and Nursing Home Care, if this is more suitable than living in your own home
- Help for people in hospital to return to the community
- 'Careline' emergency telephone alarm system
Getting a service
Before we can offer you our services we will need to talk to you about your care and support needs. This is called an assessment. We only provide services to people who have or are soon likely to have 'Critical' or 'Substantial' needs. Our leaflet called 'Helping adults keep safe and independent' tells you more about our services and how we decide who we help.
Contact Information
If you want to speak to someone in person for more information and advice, please contact:
Sensory Impairment Team
For people who are deaf, or hard hearing, and blind and partially sighted people
Crescent Resource Centre,
Blagdon Road, New Malden, KT3 4TA.
Phone: 020 8547 6600
Minicom: 020 8949 0573
EMail:sit@rbk.kingston.gov.uk