Merchandise
opens in a brand new windowNeuroaction Supplies Standing Health and Mobility for Wheelchair Customers
The Neuroaction gives the utility of a standing body whereas permitting you to carry out complete physique actions. You elevate your self right into a standing place after which push and pull on two handles that drive your legs in a gliding movement. For these with restricted arm power, you’ll be able to activate a motor within the system to help in transferring each your arms and your legs.
Bully Pulpit
opens in a brand new windowContained in the Caregiver Disaster
A latest, drawn-out seek for a live-in caregiver gave Ian Ruder a firsthand take a look at how unhealthy America’s caregiver disaster has gotten. He’s discovered that his expertise is all too frequent. “I’ve heard from readers fearful they gained’t be capable of keep at dwelling, buddies unable to get collectively as a result of they will’t cowl a shift, and too many individuals compelled to press their family and friends into undesirable obligations,” he writes.
Media
opens in a brand new windowLolo Spencer Brings Authenticity to The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies
Whether or not you’ve seen Lolo Spencer on her YouTube collection Sitting Fairly or within the hit HBO collection The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies, her charisma makes it exhausting to take your eyes off the display. Teal Sherer profiles Spencer and finds an influence wheelchair consumer completely happy to be herself and with sufficient persona to push incapacity illustration past its typical tropes.
Professional Ideas
opens in a brand new windowSix Issues Wheelchair Customers Ought to Know About Autonomous Autos
For years, autonomous automobiles have been hyped as a solution to make transportation extra useful for folks with disabilities and others for whom conventional choices don’t work properly. Now, AVs are beginning to carry passengers on a avenue close to you. Jenny Smith studies on whether or not the longer term actually is accessible.
opens in a brand new windowThe Faculty Bus Hack
Final winter, dreaming of summer time tenting journeys along with his household, Seth McBride purchased a faculty bus. He had grand plans for changing it into a comfortable and comfortable adventure-mobile. Actuality compelled him to reduce, however even with an empty shell of a bus, he nonetheless wound up with a cheap, accessible solution to get everybody out within the woods. “Generally the perfect hack is the one which requires the least quantity of effort,” he writes.
