Graduation Wheelchair Lifts
You've adjusted your cap and gown. Your graduation speech actually sounds like it won't embarrass you. Granted, there will be thousands of people¡ªand you're the one they picked to give a speech.
You forgot one detail: How do you get onstage to give that speech? Someone didn¡¯t read their wheel chair lift guide! A portable wheel chair lift can hoist you onstage. It's a dramatic entrance for a dramatic speech about overcoming hurdles and reaching for the stars.
The VIRTUOSO by Ascension is a great investment for your college to make--ask the Office for Students with Disabilities. You are, after all, a pending graduate with student loans.
Plus, when you finally finish your Ph.D. dissertation, the wheel chair lift will still be there.
Electric Scooter Lifts
You're scooting around or your child is tearing around in a scooter or electric go-kart. All of a sudden, you're ready to go for pizza, and your neighbor just bought that Escalade that your child says seems farther off the ground than a "Star Wars" vehicle. Your neighbor is five feet, three inches, and so is your caregiver, and both weigh 100 pounds soaking wet. Not to fear, no stopping required, scooter lifts are here.
A wheel chair lift for scooters makes sense. Scooters are, after all, built differently than wheelchairs. They resemble golf carts. But which scooter lift do you choose? And, can you or your child stay in the scooter or go-kart? Your child can't, since go-karts can't strap into a van seat, but certain scooters can strap down, so you can drive right inside the van.
Besides the interior cranes that attach to the floor or to a van's side doors and run off the car battery, you can buy scooter wheel chair lifts in remote-controlled platform models that you drive your scooter onto, just like a ferry or elevator. Once you and your scooter are secure, the remote lifts the whole apparatus into the Escalade.
While your child frets when the go-kart is left in the back, you and your neighbor and/or the child's caregiver feel better knowing the go-kart is safely stowed.
If your neighbor's Escalade is crowded with kids or just plain crowded, you can hook an exterior scooter lift to the rear of the vehicle. Electric power and remote control do the rest.
You or your child can happily disembark for pizza, since electric scooter wheel chair lifts lower scooters or go-karts to the ground. The only problem: you might be asked to deliver pizza in thirty minutes or less!
Do-It-Yourself Stair Lifts
You didn't give up that "weekend home-improvement warrior" spirit when your fibromyalgia or ALS worsened so why give up now? You're planning to install one of the high-powered stair lifts but are having doubts as to whether or not you can do it yourself. As with many things, you can't do it on your own¡ªwhat would your husband or wife, who knows everything about home improvement do? You can't leave them out of the project.
If your stairs are completely straight with no landings and angles or second flights, you can opt for simple stair lifts that boost you up the stairs with ease. You can relax in your wheelchair with extra back support as you climb up, up, up and away in the stair wheelchair lift you installed yourself. An owners' manual, a Phillips screwdriver, some elbow grease, and you're ready to go. You may need additional tools, so check when you're shopping for stair lifts.
Moving? You can disassemble straight stair lifts with ease--just make sure your new home has a straight staircase.
Like so many home improvement projects, you can tackle this one with sheer confidence and the well-meaning advice of your spouse. You won¡¯t even have to read 100 wheel chair lift guides to do it!
Customizing Electric Wheel Chair Lifts
You accessorize your scooter. You accessorize your wheel chair. Did you know you can accessorize your wheel chair lifts with two essential don't-leave-the-ground-without-them accessories like:
? Telephone Jacks
? Automatic Door Openers
Why would you need telephone jacks for electric wheel chair lifts when you have a cell phone? Just as with power wheelchairs and electric wheelchairs, cell phones can interfere, so leave them on the ground. It's a good idea to have a phone available with a long cord.
Automatic door openers work well if you're in an electric wheelchair or manual wheelchair with limited use of arms. Think of it¡ªthe door opens Star Trek-style as you boost yourself up to your doorstep.
Some portable wheel chair lifts such as the Ascension VIRTUOSO have a compression feature and casters so you can get them through narrow school auditorium doors. You don¡¯t have to read a wheel chair lift guide to see the advantages that that offers.
Never underestimate the power of wheel chair lifts, the human spirit...and accessorizing!
Stair Lifts For Kids
You wish you could yell at your child, "Don't run up and down the stairs!" Good news, Dad, now you can yell, "Don't ride that stair lift up and down--you'll wear it out!"
You know that stair lifts will take away some of the insecurity and awkwardness kids can feel about being different. Whether you have curved staircases, straight staircases or those combo ones with a landing, "stair chair" wheelchair lifts can help your child get upstairs, then stall for thirty minutes at bathtime.
If your job transfers you, you might face a little more pressure in the wallet from curved stair lifts, which are more customized and take longer to design and install. Luckily, Medicare has paid for your child's electric wheelchair, so wheel chair lifts don't seem so daunting. You might want to choose electric stair lifts, which are less expensive and have a battery backup in case of a power outage.
Afraid your child will outgrow the lift as she does everything else? A wheel chair lift is designed to handle wheelchairs no matter what the size or the child's size.
Now, as we've said, the only problem with stair lifts is getting your child to stop riding them up and down ten times!
Extra Auto Expenses: Wheelchair Lifts
You just bought car insurance, premium fuel, an upgrade on your stereo system...now you have to think about actually getting into your new Yukon or Caprice. Electric wheelchair lifts cost extra, to say nothing of the installation. You can spend $700 to $3,000 just for the lift. Fortunately, car dealerships aren't out to nickel and dime you. Yes, you read that right.
The salesman may have a loud tie, but pay attention when he tells you the dealership will install that electric wheel chair lift for no cost. If you choose a dealer of specialty accessible cars or trucks, you can be doubly assured--Freedom Motors' vehicles have high-powered transfer seats in the middle row, and an Auto Entry System that turns the entire van into a wheelchair lift.
But if you don't need a high-end or specialty vehicle, just negotiate with your car dealership. Tell the salesman you like his tie.
Water or Electricity?
Hydro power or electric power? This isn't an alternative energy source debate. You're deciding whether to use an electric wheel chair lift or a hydro wheel chair lift for your staircase. Of course, it depends on your usage and your home energy system. Some considerations in selecting either wheel chair lift:
HYDRAULIC STAIR LIFTS: Advantages
? Are you conserving electricity? Hydraulic stair lifts use water power for fluid and smooth movement.
? Afraid of rolling blackouts? Hydraulic stair lifts won't stop working in case of an outage or blown circuit.
? Spiral staircase with lots of twists and turns? Hydraulic stair lifts can even out sudden curves and jerks.
ELECTRIC STAIR LIFTS: Advantages
? Been good this month with your electricity usage? Reward yourself. An electric stair wheel chair lift costs less than a hydraulic wheelchair lift.
? No time to waste with complicated repairs? You just need a good electrician and a company with a great repair/warranty policy.
? Safety-minded? Battery backups won't strand you or your child in mid-lift.
You've selected the hydraulic lift because you're staying put in your green, eco-friendly house. Now if only you could solve the question of the nation's energy supply so easily.