Taking steps to reduce adaptation delay for <£1500- recycle!

Reduced mobility on stairs is one of the most common reasons why you need to adapt a home. Re-issue aka recycling of a stairclimber delivers fast risk management, safe transfer.

It's a great way to take steps to reduce delay when you adapt a home.

As someone involved in delivery of adaptations- be it to facilitate hospital discharge, to prevent someone having to move into residential care, your aim is to empower them to live as independently as possible.

You want to deliver appropriate home care- knows about the continuing pressure to reduce home adaptation delay.

We have a fast, cost-efficient and non-disruptive solution, whether as a short-term or long-term measure. 

Recyling of a stairclimber could be the answer. 

the benefits of stairclimber recycling explained

• At under £1500⁽¹⁾ for a re-issue, including client assessment, training and minor adjustments to accommodate the recipient and their carer, you more often than not eliminate the need for means testing- another reason for delay in the home adaptations process. 
• With thousands already purchased by Local Authorities, Equipment Stores nationwide (validating their role within the adaptation framework) chances are you have one to hand.
• You address the delay inevitable with alternative options (a stairlift or through-floor lift). 
• You address the immediate need is addressed in days, not months.
• You can eliminate delay in hospital discharge. Even if it is felt that a larger adaptation- a stairlift, through-floor lift- is needed, you can use the stairclimber from stores as a short-term stop-gap.
• You avoid unnecessary risk.
• You don't need to wait for a structural survey as the stairclimber is not fixed to the wall, floor.
• with the unique Universal Back, you can accessorise the stairclimber for almost any user's individual safety and support
• You consider the whole household and their quality of life: you do not require furniture to be moved, rooms to be reconfigured by a bed being moved downstairs, nor impede others access and safety on the stairs.
• Everyone’s dignity and privacy is preserved.
• Unlike the other usual solutions to stairs, you empower the client to access their whole home including the garden and the wider community.
• You consider the client- and carer- priorities and needs, taking into account their diagnosis and longer-term prognosis.
• Although perceived as a complex situation in that a carer and assessment are essential, the solution is simple You don't need any building work, installation or making good when no longer needed.
• Unlike a stairlift⁽²⁾, you can be use a stairclimbing wheelchair in almost all stairway designs- even narrow, curved, returns.
• You can fit our S-Max to a wheelchair.
• Our stairclimber/ stair climbing wheelchair reduces client transfers, making life safer, especially at the top of stairs.
• You can use it with almost any size client, from infant to bariatric adult.

best use of resources

Of course it is not the answer in every case.

However, where appropriate, by adopting the concept you could make a significant inroad into the backlog of adaptations. You reduce delay when adapting a home.

You can facilitate people to be discharged or enabling them to continue to live better and safely at home, in the home they love.

This is about making best use of resources within our Councils, of helping you the Occupational Therapists help your clients.

Indeed, whenever we support OTs in client assessments for stairclimbers, we now submit two quotes: one for a new unit, one for a re-issue. 

Those involved in delivering adaptations have the choice to make a difference.

Take the step.

Make a difference.

References:

(1)Assuming the Store stairclimber without any additional accessories is used

(2)Stairlifts can on the whole only be recycled to homes with straight stairways

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Help with stairs is one of the most common scenarios faced by adaptations professionals. The client and their care support can all be supported, safe transfer addressed and risk managed without the cost and delay of Grant funding.

How?

AAT’s top-selling battery-powered, mobile Class 1 Medical device the S-Max stairclimber/ stairclimbing wheelchair requires no installation or structural fixing nor modification.

Thus- as specified in the DFG Guidance section 2.30⁽¹⁾- its provision can be covered by minor adaptations from social services. The time and delay involved in applying for Disabled Facilities Grant funding is eliminated. 

The S-Max expediates a person-centred approach, enabling the client to remain at home without disruption to daily/family life.

Prescribing an AAT S-Max potentially expediates a dual-purpose safe transfer/fall prevention option.

The solution has even better use of budgets: with thousands already sold to local authorities over the past 20 years, there may be one already in Community Equipment Stores. This can be re-issued within days.

what is a stairclimber?

The battery-powered S-Max smoothly and kinematically ascends and descends steps and stairs. It can be fitted to a wheelchair or be supplied with an integral seat (the S-Max Sella).

It can handle most staircase designs, and complete 300 steps from a single charge. The rate of ascent/descent is set by the operator (care giver), via AAT’s innovative ComfortStep technology, including an energy stop function. 

A range of accessories, including AAT’s pioneering Universal Back, means the S-Max can be configured for almost every client from small infant to obese adult with due care and support for their particular physical or mental disability.

The unit itself has full adjustability so it can be quickly set up to exactly suit each operator, making it particularly suitable for clients with several members in the care team.

find out more

Full details of the S-Max, and the tool to book a free no obligation assessment ca be found on AAT’s website @https://www.aatgb.com/mobility-stairclimbers/.

^{(1) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disabled-facilities-grant-dfg-delivery-guidance-for-local-authorities-in-england/disabled-facilities-grant-dfg-delivery-guidance-for-local-authorities-in-england}