Assistive products
Devices, equipment or technical systems that prevent, compensate for, alleviate or neutralise impairments or disabilities.
The products
Examples of assistive products include:
Information
In the municipality of Lisbon, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa replaces the Lisbon District Centre / ISS in managing the funding of assistive products.
SAPA funding is aimed at people with a disability and/or impairment who need assistive products to eliminate/mitigate activity limitations and participation restrictions arising from their disability/impairment.
To access this funding, you should go to the Local Development and Intervention Unit (UDIP) for your area of residence and present an Assistive Products Prescription Form, prescribed by one of the Specialised Prescribing Centres: Portuguese Association for the Blind and Partially Sighted (ACAPO); Jacob Rodrigues Pereira Institute (Casa Pia Lisboa); Calouste Gulbenkian Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Centre (CRPCCG), Alcoitão Rehabilitation Medicine Centre (CMRA); Fundação LIGA.
Requests to loan assistive products can be made through Santa Casa’s Social Action and Health services. These products may be loaned subject to the assessment of Misericórdia de Lisboa’s technical team and the availability of the item requested.
Be resident in the city of Lisbon and, in the case of funding, submit an Assistive Products Prescription Form within its validity period (six months).
For any queries, please contact the Assistive Products Management Unit by phone +351 213 400 220 or email ngpa-scml@scml.pt.
Tutorials
"Cuidar +" is a Misericórdia de Lisboa project that arose from the need to provide formal and informal carers, as well as other social institutions, with all the information on the best techniques and strategies for delivering safe, quality care — both for the person being cared for and for the carers.
Supporting is not replacing
Transfer from bed to wheelchair
Transfer from bed to wheelchair (hemiplegic)
Assistive products, safety and comfort
Going up and down steps with a wheelchair (and stair climbers and platform lifts)
Transfer from wheelchair to car
Documents
Contacts
Rua Garret, 10 – Loja
1200-204 Lisbon
+351 213 400 220 *
ngpa-scml@scml.pt
* Cost of a call to the national landline network
