According to leading mental health charity Mind, spending time in green spaces including your local parks can improve your mood, reduce feelings of stress or anger, improve self-esteem, reduce loneliness, and help you feel more relaxed.
People with physical disabilities eg mobility issues are more likely to experience mental health issues, reports show.
Access to and from a garden or making a garden safe for a disabled resident falls under the scope of home adaptations; indeed, such alterations and modifications can be funded under the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Our innovative S-Max Sella stairclimber provides a fast, effective way to provide access to outside space where steps are otherwise a barrier.
S-Max Sella is battery-powered and completely portable, unlike the conventional alternative equipment to address steps and stairs which is fixed in place.
As a result, you have a fast and effective way to access the garden- and the wider community, where steps are a barrier.
The Class 1 Medical Device certified, our equipment can propel you or your loved one up, down 300 steps from a single charge.
And it carries onward from the staircase or steps, without you needing to get off. It works inside or out, and at whatever pace you feel comfortable with.
S-Max Sella automatically adjusts to variation in riser height. It gently brakes on the edge of each riser to enable a smooth transition between levels.
“We all know how much better we feel from getting outside, feeling the sun on our faces,” says Peter Wingrave AAT Director.
“More homes than we appreciate have steps either to or within the garden, or out to the street. If your mobility is impaired, that’s enough to make you trapped indoors. Our stairclimber gives you freedom to get out and about and reap the benefits to your mental health of outside space.”
We offer a comprehensive support service, including free no obligation assessment, setting up of the S-Max, training of its users, plus ongoing service & maintenance.
Full details including videos of the Sella stairclimber can be found @ https://www.aatgb.com/s-max-sella/
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.
Hip stabilisation and correction without pressure is often difficult to address for physiotherapists and occupational therapists, requiring complex prescription of a combination of postural support cushions.
The introduction of Base Doro https://www.aatgb.com/base-doro-2/ eliminates that complexity.
It delivers a single cushion with prominent pommel provides posterior and lateral support on any chair or wheelchair.
The innovative vacuum technology within the cushion means it is infinitely variable and adjustable, enabling exact, pressure-free support for the whole pelvis.
The strategic pommel enables abduction of the legs. Side lateral panels that extend beyond the hip girdle help stabilise and correct the whole pelvis.
An integral neoprene strap provides complimentary safety when in use.
The stability and security for the user can also encourage torso movement during daily activities, thus helping increase strength for some musculoskeletal conditions.
Base Doro can be precisely set up for each person, and quickly and easily adjusted as needed. Based on the beanbag concept, a pump removes air to fix the cushion to the exact configuration of each user and hold them without pressure.
Any progressive change- however slight- required to maintain support and comfort can be undertaken at home, by the care-giver (with appropriate qualified training). There is no need for lengthy and costly re-moulding.
Available in four sizes, Base Doro can be used with all clients from child to adult.
The cushion’s technologically-advanced breatheable neoprene cover can be wiped clean to maintain hygiene; its integral elasticity has the flexibility to “immerse” the buttocks without friction.
A hand pump is supplied as standard. Optional accessories include an electric pump, mounting strap and flexible foam-padded cover.
“Base Doro takes seated support to a new level. To our knowledge, nothing else gives, in just one cushion, the degree of support, and infinite variability to each person (client or patient). It will make postural seating prescription much simpler, easier- and cost-effective- for Occupational Therapists. Just one cushion can turn almost any chair into a postural chair and ensure appropriate support for wheelchair users. It delivers transferrable comfort.”
Peter Wingrave, Director AAT GB
Base Doro compliments the range of vacuum posture cushions already available from AAT, including the Comfortable Plus Duo seat and back support, Chilli Bean seat and Grande mattress.
Free no obligation assessments for Base Doro, any or all of the range of vacuum posture cushions, and AAT’s complete range of daily living aids can be booked here: https://www.aatgb.com/base-doro-2/
