With its unrivalled market penetration and expanded team of professional assessor, engineers and trainers, AAT has a unique ability to help OTs maximise use of available equipment to manage the risk of reduced mobility and stair access, for clients of all ages.
The AAT S-Max Sella is the most widely used stairclimber/stairclimbing wheelchair in the UK, with thousands already purchased by local authorities.
AAT has now doubled its team of service engineers/trainers, giving OTs “the boots on the ground” to effect safe stairway access within days, for <£650/year(2).
AAT offers FREE NO OBLIGATION assessment(3), providing the OT with detailed clinical reasoning as to the suitability of its #1 selling S-Max Sella stairclimber for the client, their carer(s) and their environment.
When no longer needed by the original recipient, S-Max Sella can be easily recycled/ re-issued to other clients.
Thus, AAT’s nationwide assessment, service engineer and trainer teams means that the OT can re-prescribe supported by an AAT assessor, the kit be thoroughly checked and serviced, and the carer(s) trained in its safe use ensuring stairway access- all enabled within days and for <£1000(4).
In 90+% of scenarios where stair access needs addressing, the S-Max Sella stairclimbing wheelchair can deliver a safe and appropriate solution.
The Sella is Class 1 Medical Device certified. It can be quickly and easily accessorised for each client- from a young child to an elderly bariatric person with dementia.
The standard unit can navigate almost all typical staircase widths and designs.
Battery powered and portable, there is no need for the delay of a structural survey, alteration nor installation, nor stairway impediment for other occupants of the house or block of flats.
As it is not fixed in any way to the home, there is no “making good” when it is removed and re-prescribed to another client, further optimising its cost-efficiency.
“Children’s and adults’ social care together make up the majority of core funded local authority expenditure(1),in some cases, up to 50% of the entire Council budget! Adult social care is the largest single area of core funded expenditure for local authorities in England. SEND services have increased by 115% in the nine years up to 2023,” says Peter Wingrave, AAT Director.
"The reality is that maximising use of existing equipment must be an over-riding consideration. In one of the most common areas to address- stairs- no other company has the ability nor capability to support OTs and effect a personalised, practical solution that can be so easily and cost-effectively re-prescribed.”
Full details can be found on this website: https://www.aatgb.com/ots/.
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References:
(1)https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/43165/documents/214689/default/
(2)S-Max Sella purchase price £4650, re-issue x 3 £3000/ 12 years= £637/annum.
(3)UK mainland
(4)Including full service, training of carer(s). Excluding any additional accessories
