Adopting a policy of funding recyclable equipment could simultaneously address the multiple facets of:
- enabling people (young or old) to remain safely in their own homes,
-avoiding their admission into residential care,
-providing short or long term support to facilitate hospital discharge
-stretched social care finances and
-managing the risk of falls by preventative measures.
Importantly, the comparative low capital cost of buying just one stairclimber (stair climbing wheelchair), that can be used over its lifetime by numerous people, achieves best value.
With our S-Max Sella typically providing a practical working life of 12 years, its annual cost- including re-issue to an average three people during its life, equates to less than a typical week of residential care(1).
“Mobility- with its associated issues of getting up and down stairs and falls- is possibly the biggest single reason why social services have to find- and fund- a solution, whether it’s a home adaptation or someone going into care,” says Peter Wingrave AAT Director.
“Even acknowledging a stairclimber is not a solution in every case (albeit in our experience being the answer in 95% of cases where stairs are a problem), its provision can be a disproportionately significant step in easing the financial constraints being faced by Councils up and down the country.”
Full details of AAT’s S-Max Sella and re-issue facility can be found on its website www.aatgb.com.
With our innovative re-issue capability, one of our stairclimbers can help support multiple clients in need of social care to address mobility and difficulties with stairs in- and outside- their home. Full set-up to each recipient and training is provided.
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(1) http://(https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/care/paying-for-care/paying-for-a-care-home/Residential care cost of £800/week S-Max Sella purchase price £4650, re-issue x 3 £3000/ 12 years= £637/annum.
