About the stair climber trolley
Some elderly have difficulty climbing and descending stairs. With a chair lift for stairs, they can have access to their entire home again.
They no longer have to change or limit their daily routine because they cannot go up and down the stairs safely. A chair lift for stairs
will allow your elderly parents to be independent and self sufficient - which for most seniors is essential for their quality of life. A stair
climber trolley makes it easier for a person to take a heavy load up or down stairs, compared to using a regular trolley. A stair climber
does this with a unique triple-wheel design that rotates and levers its load.
Features: the stair climber has three wheels on each side of its base, arranged in a triangular pattern. Some trolleys have a mechanism
on the wheels that locks them in a position where only one of the three wheels touches the ground, which makes manoeuvring the trolley
easier.
Function: the wheels on a stair climber trolley are arranged so that as the user pulls the trolley up stairs, the gap in between two wheels
hooks onto the corner of the stairs. One wheel effectively levers on the upper stair and the user applies that leverage to pull up the trolley.
The wheels then rotate for the next stair.
Benefits: since a stair climber trolley levers a load on stairs, it takes some of the pressure off the person using the trolley. He does not
have to completely lift the trolley and its contents, reducing the strain on his body and lowering his chance of injury.
Stair chairs are very useful in evacuating or otherwise moving patients or other people unable to move on their own. In a typical use
situation, a patient is loaded onto the stair chair (when the stair chair is in its fully-unfolded state), the stair chair is wheeled to the head
or foot of a flight of stairs, and the stair chair is then carried by two or more persons down or up the flight of stairs. Once any stairs have
been navigated, the stair chair is then wheeled further, either to additional stairs, to an ambulance, or to some other location where the
patient is removed from the stair chair. Stair chairs are often used in emergency situations where elevator service has been interrupted,
is unavailable, or is inadvisable.