Disability Aids and Mobility Aids for Wheelchair Accessibility

Mobility and Disability Aids for Wheelchair Vans

Disability aids represent a wide range of assistive technology designed to help any area of mobility as the result of a disability or injury. Everyday tasks such as reaching a dish off the top shelf or using silverware can prove impossible for a person with a disability to do independently. These aids can assist people with disabilities in every aspect of life, from activities of daily living to driving.

Mobility aids are the largest genre of disability aids. These devices range from a simple cane to high tech power wheelchairs that can move in any direction. Some examples of mobility aids are canes, crutches, walkers, power chairs, manual wheelchairs, mobility scooters, walkers with resting seats, forearm crutches, transport chairs, standers assistance poles, standers bed standing assist and couch assist, lift chairs, powered chair seat lifts, and car assist bars.

Mobility aids also include handicap vans and all of the adaptive equipment within them, such as wheelchair docks to secure the wheelchair in place, hand controls to allow wheelchair users to drive, wheelchair straps, power and manual wheelchair lifts, transfer seats, and wheelchair ramps.

Tasks around the home are more easily accomplished with simple disability aids like foam tubing that can be attached to silverware, pots and pans, and anything a person with disabilities has trouble grasping. "Reachers" act as an extension of a wheelchair user's arm with a claw on one end controlled by a lever at the end the user is holding to grasp items that would otherwise be out of reach.

The bathroom can be a world of challenges for a person with disabilities. Items like raised toilet seats, walk in showers, non slip flooring, and transfer systems that use a sling style seat that runs on a track installed on the ceiling to move a person directly from the wheelchair into the bath or shower help a person with disabilities accomplish tasks able bodied people take for granted. Metal bars bolted to the wall beside the toilet assist a mobility challenged individual to lower onto and get up from the toilet and lowered sinks with extended bowls allow a wheelchair user to do tasks such as wash their hands and brush their teeth directly from their wheelchair.

Disability aids are essential for the independent individual to function throughout the day. Assistive technology continues to be a ground breaking field with continued research and development from modern power wheelchairs that allow the user to reach a semi standing position to a simple grip that fits in your pocket that will bear the weight of a person to assist them in entering and exiting a mobility vehicle.

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