Essential Aids

Essential Aids sells disability equipment, mobility aids and daily living products.

Quick overview

Its range covers the home, personal care, work and leisure, with equipment available to the public as well as schools, local authorities and the NHS.

Mobility products include crutches, walking frames, rollators, wheelchairs and scooters.
Bathroom and toileting aids include bath seats, shower chairs, commodes and toilet support rails.
Kitchen products include adapted cutlery, plates, bowls, openers and kettle tippers.
Bedroom and household items include bed rails, mattress protectors, reaching aids and furniture raisers.
Personal care, home health, dressing and leisure products are also listed.

Introduction

Essential Aids sells disability equipment, mobility aids and daily living aids. It supplies the public as well as schools, local authorities and the NHS.

The range includes equipment for the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom, alongside walking aids, personal care products and household items.

What Essential Aids offers

Essential Aids offers mobility equipment including crutches, wheelchairs, walking frames and mobility scooters. It also lists wheelchair accessories, chairs and seating aids, moving and handling aids, and therapy and clinical equipment.

Other ranges cover dressing, incontinence, comfort, orthopaedic aids and products for children. The merchant accepts purchase orders from the NHS, schools and councils.

Product and service categories

Mobility aids

Walking aids include crutches, walking frames, rollators and walkers. There are folding walking frames, forearm walkers and trolley walkers, as well as ferrules and accessories. The range also includes grab rails, rising seats and aids, and wheeled shopping baskets.

Bathroom

Bath aids include boards, cushions, pillows, hoists, lifts, seats, stools and steps. Shower products include boards, cradles, mats, seats, stools and trolleys, plus wheeled shower chairs. The range also features hair-washing aids, long-handled sponges and scrubbers, and cast and dressing protectors.

Toileting

Essential Aids offers bed pans, urinal bottles, bottom wipers and toilet support rails. Toileting products also include bed pads and adapted underwear. Commode cushions and disinfectant wipes are listed alongside the equipment.

Kitchen

Kitchen aids include adapted cutlery, food preparation aids, kitchen knives and openers. Plates, bowls, cups and mugs appear alongside kettle tippers, teapots and utensil holders. Kitchen trolleys, lap trays, perching stools and shatterproof tableware are also available.

Bedroom

Bedroom equipment includes adjustable divan beds, profiling beds, bed rails and bed transfer aids. Mattress products include airflow and profiling mattresses, overlays, toppers and protectors. Bed wedges, blanket cradles, orthopaedic pillows and mattress elevators are listed too.

Household

Household aids include gripping and turning devices, long-handled aids, reachers and grabbers. Other items include furniture raisers, half steps, plug pulls and laundry trolleys. The range also includes alarm clocks, magnifying glasses, large-button phones, torches and lighting.

Dressing aids

Dressing products include button hooks, dressing sticks and elastic shoe laces. Essential Aids also offers shoehorns and sock and stocking aids. Compression socks and stockings are listed among the dressing products.

Home health

Home health products include blood pressure monitors, thermometers and pulse oximeters. Medicine dispensers, hearing aids, first aid kits and respiratory aids are also listed. The range includes patient alarms, patient monitors and strength-measuring equipment.

Personal care

Personal care products include barrier creams and skin-cleansing foams and creams. Dry wipes, wet wipes and disposable gloves are also available. Other items include hand sanitisers, pelvic exercisers and sharps bins.

Work and leisure

The work and leisure range includes games, needlework and garden tools. There are also reading aids and writing and artwork aids. Exercise products, education aids and scissors are listed as well.

Browse the full range on the Essential Aids website.

More Info

Brands named on the site

Brands named with product ranges include Topro, Trionic and Uniscan for rollators or walkers, Ornamin for eating and drinking aids, and Steelite for crockery.

Using the website

The website has a search feature and a basket. It also includes a blog and a site map.

Frequently asked questions

Are there different types of rollator?

Yes, Essential Aids lists three-wheel and indoor rollators. It also offers rollators with seats and lightweight rollators.

What shower seating is available?

The range includes wall-mounted shower seats and folding shower seats with legs. Shower seats and stools are also listed.

Does Essential Aids offer commodes?

Yes, it lists both mobile and static commodes. Bedroom commode chairs are also available.

Are kitchen aids available for children?

Yes, the merchant lists adapted cutlery for children. Children's plates and bowls are also available.

What bedding protectors are listed?

Essential Aids offers waterproof bed sheets, duvet protectors and pillow cases. Waterproof mattresses are also listed.

Are watches available?

Yes, the household range includes big-digit and talking watches. Wall clocks are listed too.

Key takeaways

Walking aids include crutches, frames, rollators and walkers.
Bathroom and toileting equipment includes bath aids, shower seating and commodes.
Kitchen and bedroom ranges cover adapted tableware, beds and mattress products.
Household items include reaching aids, lighting and large-button phones.
The site offers search and a basket, and accepts purchase orders from the NHS, schools and councils.

Summary

Essential Aids offers daily living and disability equipment across mobility, home, personal care and leisure categories. Its products range from walking aids and bathroom equipment to dressing tools, home health monitors and adapted kitchenware.