Disabled Living Foundation
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Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) is a non-profit organisation based in the United Kingdom that provides advice on disability issues for older and disabled people. The organisation maintains one of the UK's disability product databases.
The DLF runs a national helpline, and has published a paper based directory of daily living products, known as the Hamilton Directory, for many years. In recent years it has started to publish product information online but only on a subscription basis. CEO, Nicole Penn-Symons, stated in the 2004/05 annual report that it is an organisational objective to make the product database free to the public.[1]
In 2005 DLF partnered with the GUS (retailer) Charitable Trust to pilot a new business model to make the DLF's information free to the public. This service has the working name 'Bathing made easy'[2]
[edit] SARA
SARA is an expert system designed to allow the general public to obtain disability advice independently.[3] It was designed in conjunction with Occupational Therapists. It was an experimental pilot development in partmentship with the UK's Department of Health[4] as part of the Integrating Community Equipment Services (ICES)[5] healthcare programme.
