Motorized Wheel Chair



Motorized Wheel Chair - A Dream For Many

Read the statistics.  We do not have to read very far to see that our population is getting older.  The largest population group we have had in a long time, the "baby boomers" are now in their late fifties and early sixties.  They are hitting retirement age faster and faster each year.  This is putting a real drain on our economy. 

For those who will be collecting Social Security in five to ten years, they are wondering if it will even be there.  With the older population comes more diseases of the elderly.  Included with those illnesses and diseases comes mobility issues and need for wheel chairs and motorized wheel chairs.  The need for a wheel chair does not seem to create a problem. 

The need for a motorized wheel chair creates more issues that are harder to solve. First of all is the issue of who is going to pay for the motorized wheel chair?  If the patient is on Medicare or other insurance that is willing to pay, there is no problem.  There are many insurances that will not pay.  There are some supplemental insurances that will not pay.  That means the cost comes down to the patient or the patients family. 

The motorized wheel chair has a cost that is prohibitive to the average American caught up in today's economy.  This is heart breaking to the family that wants the best for their elderly loved one. We also have to consider the young person who needs a motorized wheel chair due to injury or illness.  If a family is unable to pay for it, thank goodness, the community usually comes to their aid and will have some type of fund raiser to help foot the bill.  There is good people in this world.

Sadly, there is one other person who is being left out of the world of the motorized wheel chair, no matter whether they are young or old.  This is the person who is obese.  Most of these wheel chairs are build to hold at most only 250 pounds.  Occasionally one can be seen to hold 300 pounds, but how about the person over that poundage.  They have been discriminated against all of their life, and now sadly they will be locked inside away from the world because even if they could afford a wheel chair, they cannot find one to accommodate their size unless they special order it and pay a fortune.  How sad!  


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Jamie
Posted 187 days ago
I was lucky. Medicare was a great help. I makes so much difference to my life. I can't imagine what it would be like having to use my old manual chair again. I didn't realise at the time what a difference it would make. It's a bit like using speech recognition software on the computer. When your hands can't work the same on the keys you can still write a letter by talking to your computer. That's why i like my motorized chair so much.