“We frequently go out with my grandmother, and she uses a rolling walker. When she gets tired, she sits down and holds up the whole family. Is there some sort of rolling walker that is safe to push our grandma in?”
What is the difference between the 4-wheel rolling walkers and the 3-wheel rolling walkers?
All rolling walkers, or rollators, give their users extra stability without slowing them down like a traditional walker would. When choosing a rollator for yourself or a loved one, one of the first things you’ll have to decide is whether you want a 3 wheel rollator or a 4 wheel rollator.
High school English teacher Judi Bremer has spent the last 25 years of her life battling Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a disease which attacks one’s nervous system leading to a variety of debilitating symptoms.
One of the coolest things about 3D printing is that it makes product customization much easier. Now, London design firm Layer is using this technology to offer users customized wheelchairs.
Matt McCann, one of the co-creators of Access Earth, was inspired to create the site after an incident in 2012. He was visiting London and had booked a hotel that claimed to be accessible. But when he got there, Matt found there were three steps between him and the main entrance, making it extremely difficult for him to get himself and his rollator inside.
Like many wheelchair sports, wheelchair fencing is growing in popularity around the world. Unlike many wheelchair sports, wheelchair fencing is almost exactly the same as the original version of the sport, the only two differences being 1) The fencers sit in wheelchairs of course, and 2) Wheelchair fencing is a lot faster paced.
The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) recently hosted the Seniors Decide 2016 forum on senior issues at George Mason University. They invited every presidential candidate to participate, but only two actually responded-- Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders and Republican hopeful John Kasich. Sanders Skyped in and Kasich sent former congressman Tom Davis to attend on his behalf.
The Palo Alto Longevity Prize is set to give away $1,000,000 to a team of scientists who can best figure out how to slow aging. The prize is broken into two parts. $500,000 will be given to the team that can best extend a mammal’s lifespan, and $500,000 will be given to a team who can “turn back the clock” in a mammal.
10 year old Rylea Lambert lives with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. This means she and her best friend Jayci Stubblefield couldn’t play on the playground together during recess. Until Stubblefield decided to change that.
Tameru Zegeye can travel 100 meters in 57.0 seconds, all while doing a handstand on his forearm crutches. He is now the official Guinness World Record holder for “Fastest 100 m in forearm crutches - inverted.”
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights law which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. It requires that public facilities, such as schools, be accessible to disabled individuals. However, despite the act being signed into law over 25 years ago, a recent federal investigation found that 83% of New York City’s public schools are not fully accessible.
“LGBT older adults are disproportionately affected by physical and mental health issues and are more likely to live alone than their heterosexual counterparts,” says journalist AJ Trager in a new article for PrideSource. Despite this, a recent study by Eastern Michigan University professor Dr. Beverly Mihalko found that most long term care facilities lack proper inclusion policies and practices for their LGBT residents.
