Wheelchair Aids

Anyone have any ideas? I care for my elderly inlaws, and their bathroom door is too narrow for their walkers and wheelchairs. I cannot find these aids that are less wide than their existing ones.

Offset door hinges allow the door to open another inch or more, which is sometimes all it takes, and are a simple and cheap solution.

Older homes can be tough to adapt- small doors, bad angles and halls, etc. You often need to get very creative, and sometimes you need to spend a bit.

For example, another option would be a ceiling-mounted track for a patient lift so you could transfer them in a roomier area and it would move them to where you need.

Or, you can use other options to bypass the bathroom- turn a corner of a more accessible room to a bathroom with a commode chair, brushing teeth in the kitchen, and and using bed baths most of the time.

2009-08-27 11:17:59 by kaykay

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i don't care what it is everytime i go to purchase anything related home mealthcare the price is nuts and most government agencies don't pay for these so most do without.

i think the manufacterer's and thre retailers think that most items like this are charced to ins.

2006-03-05 19:52:06 by pellenmurphy@sbcglobal.net

Both live in a nursing home. I don't know if the man has other problems as well, but the woman found out about the aids after the fact. He did not tell her. The nurses told her and now she has to go for testing. The woman was in a terrible car accident 10 years ago, not her fault, and was in a coma , and couldn't raise her son. She is in a wheelchair. She is in the nursing home for life.

Depending on the state they live in, he can be in a heap of trouble.

2008-10-26 06:26:13 by WOLFIE

Long shoehorn with a notch for taking off socks
2 Pushers for removing shoes and clothing
Specially angled large hook that holds and pulls clothing without the clothing slipping off

They tell you they spent all this money on helping her to walk with walking aids and now she decided to use a wheelchair instead.

Well I could understand the parents frustration, but I would have to also take into consideration the daughters reasons, after all the choice is ultimately hers.

The reasons she may give could be related to the type of disorder/disability and if she is any sort of pain, certainly trying to walk even with aids can cause additional pain, thus increase fatigue, frustration etc.

Or it could be ease of movement in and around the home, school etc (especially school, due to having carrying around her text books etc). Walking aids do not always make it easier to move around and if people don't move for her to enter/exit a building etc, this will also cause frustration.

Where as being in a wheel chair she may find people move for her, and she can carry her books etc with ease.

So ask what is her reason, and see if a compromise can be made, that maybe after school or on weekends she uses her walking aids.

2008-05-07 23:21:31 by jobees

because people use them only when they really have to

2009-10-01 03:48:23 by gotmini02