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Home Modification

Modifying Your Home

Getting Around the Home

You can improve an individual’s ability to move around the home with:

  • Scooters
  • Portable ramps
  • Power wheelchairs
  • Rollators
  • Three-wheeled rollators
  • Canes
  • Walkers
  • Foldable canes, walkers, wheelchairs

Getting Around the Home Assessment

Do you have trouble........ Solutions to Consider
Standing at the bathroom or kitchen sink?
  • Quad canes
  • Hemi or side walkers
Traveling the hallways in your home?
  • Widening hallways
  • Adequate lighting
  • Use a cane, walker, or rollator
  • Three-wheeled rollators
Negotiating doorways and thresholds?
  • Canes
  • Walkers
  • Threshold ramps
  • Automatic door openers
Moving around in your kitchen?
  • Canes, walkers, or rollators
  • Compact scooters
  • Accessory trays and baskets
  • Wheelchair modifications
  • Accessible cabinets, appliances, and counter space
Getting around in your bedroom?
  • Canes
  • Hemi or side walkers
  • Three-wheeled rollators
Getting up from your favorite chair?
  • Canes
  • Hemi walkers
  • Rollators
Negotiating the exit areas of your home:
into the garage or out the front door?
What about the sliding glass doors that lead to your garden?
  • Hand grips, hand rails, and grab bars
  • Portable, permanent and threshold ramps
  • Canes and Step-up CanesTM
  • Hemi walkers
Going shopping?
  • Canes, walkers, or rollators
  • Walkers
  • Scooters
Getting in and out of your car?
  • Retractable canes
  • Swivel seats
  • Folding walkers and hemi walkers
Dealing with public transportation or have trouble negotiating airports?
  • Retractable canes
  • Folding walkers
  • Foldable transport chairs, compact scooters
With an injury keeping you housebound?
  • Transportation chairs
  • Knee Scooters
  • Crutches
  • Canes
  • Braces
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