Senior Citizen Mobility: Stair-Climbing Wheelchair Review
Is climbing the stairs of your home no longer as comfortable as it once was? Are you looking for a solution, for you,
for your loved ones: for your aging parents or for your grandparents, to reorganise the spaces in your home without
disrupting daily life? Dragon can help. This is going to be an unusual review, but well, anything that has wheels is
welcome on Team-BHP, so here goes.
A problem some of you – rather, the elders in your family - might be facing is limited mobility for senior citizens. Our family
was in the same situation. We live in an old building that wasn’t designed to accommodate a lift. What’s more, our home is
located right by the beach – meaning, tough coastal regulations that prohibit any kind of alteration to the building structure.
When my folks were in their sixties, they managed the climb up to the top / 3rd floor without issue. However, once they
crossed into the seventies, that became an arduous task. Things were so unmanageable that they temporarily moved to
our 1st floor house as the climb up to the 3rd floor was daunting!
Dragon presents a range of chairlifts both for indoor and outdoor use. Dragon stairlifts with chair are the ideal solution to
improve mobility at home for people with limited mobility, like the elderly or the disabled. Dragon stairlifts with chair are designed
to offer the highest level of comfort and safety, focusing on ease of use and aesthetic harmony with the staircases. Stair chairs
are commonly used to maneuver patients in a variety of situations. Such situations include emergency response situations and
evacuations of multi-level buildings. Stair chairs are typically designed to permit rolling movement of a patient or evacuee over
flat surfaces and carrying of the stair chair up or down flights of stairs or over rough surfaces. Manufacturers of such chairs include
Stryker Corporation of Kalamazoo, Mich. and Ferno-Washington, Inc. of Wilmington, Ohio. Reason’s for evacuating a building are
often out of our control. For example, a natural disaster. However, the safety of the people evacuating the building can be
completely controlled by proper preparation. It is the responsibility of the business, building manager, site manager etc to ensure
that ALL steps have been taken to minimise all health and safety risks. THIS IS WHY you can be prosecuted for not having ticked
all of the necessary boxes. You could be putting your reputation on the line, as well as being faced with a hefty fine and legal action,
but most importantly you are endangering the safety of the evacuees.