If you are feeling lonely and it is affecting your life, there are different things you can try that may help.

Visit the following NHS websites for numerous suggestions on how you can try to overcome loneliness: www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/feeling-lonely/ or www.nhsinform.scot/self-help-guides

Lifeline 24 is a telephone-based system which you can use to summon help, call assistance, or give you reassurance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

The main role of the lifeline service is to obtain help for an elderly or disabled person when an emergency arises. The 'Lifeline' is connected to a control centre where there is always a control operator on duty to respond immediately. This operator is supported by a mobile warden service.

For more information, please use the following details.

Contact information
Website: Lifeline 24
Email: info@lifeline24.co.uk
Phone: 0800 999 0400 (Monday to Friday 8.30am -6pm, Saturday 9am -5pm)

Alternatively, the Fife Falls Response Team can be contacted by pressing Community Alarm, via your GP or NHS24 (Tel. 111).

Fife Council also provide a community alarm service. For further information call the Contact Centre on 03451 551503 to see whether you are eligible.

For useful advice on choosing footwear for problems like swollen feet, arthritis, diabetes, odd sized feet or cold feet, please visit www.fifedirect.org.uk.

There is also lots of information on foot care available on the Society of Podiatrists and Chiropodists website, please visit cop.org.uk/.

Mobility shops in Fife stock a range of footwear to suit people with problems like oedema, corns, bunions and very wide feet. You can also find out more by contacting Fairprice Mobility on 01592 652244.

If you have a problem with your feet that you cannot address with self-help, please contact your doctor for medical advice.

Your answers have indicated that you might benefit from being shown how to use a button/ zip hook.

You can call Scot Mobility UK Ltd and Allardyce Healthcare Ltd and they can provide free, impartial advice about a wide range of assistive equipment, including dressing aids. Staff there can advise on equipment and you be able to trial some of these items before purchasing them.

To find out more or to get in touch, please use the information below.

Contact information

Organisation: Scot Mobility UK Ltd
Phone: 01383 739287
Address: Unit 8, Dewar House, Enterprise Way, Dunfermline, Fife, KY11 8PY

Organisation: Allardyce Healthcare Ltd
Email: sales@allardyce.co.uk
Phone: 01382 773600
Address: 12 Tom Johnston Rd, Dundee, DD4 8XD

You may also require assistance with dressing or self care and Allardyce Healthcare Ltd can you advise you further in relation to this.

Fairprice Mobility also offer mobility equipment and can be contacted using the following details.

Contact information
Website: Fairprice Mobility
Phone: 01592 652244

If you are feeling lonely and it is affecting your life, the Scottish Association for Mental Health offers online advice and information for those experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.

For more information see the website at www.samh.org/

Your answers have indicated that you might benefit from being shown how to use a button/ zip hook.

You can call Scot Mobility UK Ltd and Allardyce Healthcare Ltd and they can provide free, impartial advice about a wide range of assistive equipment, including dressing aids. Staff there can advise on equipment and you be able to trial some of these items before purchasing them.

To find out more or to get in touch, please use the information below.

Contact information

Organisation: Scot Mobility UK Ltd
Phone: 01383 739287
Address: Unit 8, Dewar House, Enterprise Way, Dunfermline, Fife, KY11 8PY

Organisation: Allardyce Healthcare Ltd
Email: sales@allardyce.co.uk
Phone: 01382 773600
Address: 12 Tom Johnston Rd, Dundee, DD4 8XD

You might benefit from being shown how to use a dressing stick.

You can call the Lothian Disabled Living Centre on 0131 537 9190 and ask for advice or an appointment.

The Disabled Living Centre is based at Astley Ainslie Hospital and offers free and impartial advice about a wide range of assistive equipment, including dressing aids. The OT there can advise and demonstrate equipment and you will be able to trial a dressing stick.