Home Wheel Chair Lift to Help You up the Stairs

By A. M. Kelly

It is not an easy thing to climb stairs for a person who spends most of his or her time in wheel chair. Even worse if the person’s room is located upstairs in the house, which makes it a great deal of harder for the person climbing up and down every day; at least twice. The conventional way to go up the stairs is to help the person to climb up or carry the person up, and then bring up the wheel chair separately. However things have changed now. You can easily skip the process of climbing up the stairs and go upstairs with a home wheel chair lift. This home wheel chair lift basically works the same way as commercial lifts which we can find in apartments too. They lift the passenger to whichever floor they want to go; together with the entire luggage and other things. There are many different versions of the home wheel chair lift, which can be categorized according to the height of the lifting, the exits and entry, and the working mechanism.

Working Mechanism

Basically there are two different types of home wheel chair lifts under this category. First is the one which operates by electric and the other by hydraulic power. The difference between the two is the way in which the lift is being operated to lift the person. The electric home wheel chair lift works by a touch of a button or switch, and gets its power from a power outlet or battery. It makes things very much easier, because the person in the wheel chair can operate the lift by himself or herself.

On the other hand, the hydraulic lift needs another person to operate it, because it works manually with a lever or pedal, which pushes up the lift higher as the lever is worked harder. Nowadays, there are is a new type of home wheel chair lift which combines both the mechanism, so the hydraulic lift gets power from the electric outlet, but lifts using hydraulic power.

Exits and Entry

This category of home wheel chair lift is actually dependant on the direction of the destination upstairs, as referred to the spot which the lift takes off. There are generally three different types, which are Same Side, Adjacent Access, and Straight Through lifts. The first one is where you enter and come out from the same side. The second one is where you enter in front and exit from the sides. The last type is where you enter in front and exit through the opposite side.

Author Details:
A. M. Kelly writes for various web sites including The A-Z of Wheelchairs and other information portals such as information junkie and the A-Z of.com

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