High Back Wheelchair

Recently, the government has been attempting to make the public housing estates more wheelchair accessible for the convenience of the wheelchair bound people. How do you think the system can be improved?

The idea is bad. People using wheelchairs living on upper floors requires elevators. Elevators fail. Elevator repair seems to always take several hours, if not days until it is done. So it presents a safety and human dignity factor.

On the ground floor, the hallways can be made wide. The doorways needs to be wide and there needs to be a 50 inch turning radius on both sides of the doors.

The laundry rooms and any other special rooms need to be accessible. There needs to be easy access to any outdoor areas - any steps ramped.

Van and ordinary accessible parking needs to be nearby. There needs to be a place for pick-up/drop-off that is somewhat protected from the elements. There needs to be a place where people waiting for paratransit rides can wait safely.

A system of security needs to exist to either only allow people in if they are buzzed in or security personnel. Intercom systems need to be reachable when in a chair.

Mail needs to be accessible. Some chair users have difficulty with small keys so they may need help getting their mail.

Public area restrooms needs to be accessible.

There needs to be an emergency evacuation plan that takes nto account everyone with a disability.

There are books and laws that cover all of this extensively. This is the tip of the iceberg.

2007-12-31 08:44:00 by Ehoe N

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At dances and stuff people casually dance with different people and I always feel a bit akward because I am in a wheelchair. I have had guys kneel down and dance with me before but that always seemed weird. Guys would you feel weird asking me to dance? Anyone have any alternatives?

I'm sure you know by now that a lot of people feel nervous and uncomfortable around someone in a wheelchair. They don't know what to do or how to behave. So it will help if you take the initiative. Ask friends to dance with you. At a lot of high school dances, people dance in a group, not as couples. Get a group of your friends out on the floor together. As guys get to know you and feel more comfortable, and realize that you like to dance, more of them will ask you. Good luck, and have fun!

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I'm in a wheelchair and but I still want ot go to new york to work in the fashion industry so is is wheelchair accessible there?

So far everyone has assumed that you meant "are the schools wheelchair accessible" but I have the feeling you mean is NYC itself wheelchair accessible.

First of all, yes, all schools should be wheelchair accessible.

But as to the rest of the City, well, it should be, it's supposed to be, but....you know how it is, sometimes what should be just isn't.

The sidewalks mostly have curb cuts for wheelchairs, but sometimes they are damaged or just not well made. Then, when there is construction there may be detours, and that can have a far greater impact on people in wheelchairs than on people walking. For example, they may extend the sidewalk into the street with a barrier to traffic. It's easy enough to walk into the street into the extended area, but a person in a wheelchair may find it challanging. Or sometimes they close the sidewalk in the middle of the street for construction. People who are walking can cross (illegally) in the middle of the block (and usually do.) But that's far more difficult and dangerous in a wheelchair.

And now to the subways - they are upgrading the subways to put in elevators, but it's not finished, and with the current fiscal crises who knows when it will be finished. Further, the elevators do go out from time to time. One elevator at the Alantic Avenue stop always seems to be out! The buses are now all wheelchair accessible, and that's gotten much better in recent years. And there is also something called "access-a-ride" which is a mass transit system for the disabled, but I'm not sure how it works.

That said, people in wheelchairs do live here and get around the City. It's not easy in some ways, but clearly people do it.

Good luck! If you want this enough, you'll do what you need to do to make your dreams come true!

2009-04-23 08:19:48 by LALA

A person in a wheelchair approaches a 0.45-m-high ramp. What initial speed would be necessary for a final speed of 1.0 m/s? Express your answer with 3 significant figures.

This problem is solved with the application of work and energy principle which states that total work done on a moving particle is equal to the change of its kinematics energy:
W=T2-T1
Here the only work done on the particle is dot to gravitation force and is equal to -m*g*h:

-m*10*0.45 = (1/2)*m*(1)^2-(1/2)*m*(v)^2 --->
m*v^2=(4.5+0.5)*m*2=10*m --->
v=sqrt(10) m/s

v is equal to sqare root of 10.(approximately 3.162 m/s)

2006-02-22 18:27:57 by Drew