LONG-TERM SUPPORT
The health & wellbeing benefits OF A HOMELIFT Improving neuro rehab can lead to meaningful living through safer access between floors.
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wheelchair-accessible Trio+ Homelift from Stiltz which hose with chronic travels between the ground floor dining room and her disability who wish to first-floor bedroom. continue living with their families, often find the OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ENDORSE THE existing home layout can impede CLINICAL BENEFITS rehabilitation and condition management. The inability to Stuart Barrow, respected Occupational Therapist, Stuart Barrow move - or be moved - freely in a comments: “Stiltz Homelifts provide positive outcomes wheelchair creates challenges, particularly if upstairs for people who need adaptations to make their home bathrooms and bedrooms are out of reach. Faced safe and accessible. A homelift is especially beneficial for with expensive building wheelchair users and those conversions, cost of carers experiencing issues with balance or even having to move to and mobility, which would make a more suitable property, stairs unsafe to use. First floors the prospect of a simple often become no-go areas due adaptation is an attractive to access limitations, which has option. One such solution is a negative effects on wellbeing. installation of the increasingly Through client referrals, I know popular homelift. Stiltz Homelifts can be assessed Stiltz Homelifts are at the for and installed quickly. This forefront of helping transform product prescription ensures in-home access for people meaningful occupation and living with ABI, SCI and inclusion is achieved for a client. neurological conditions such It also benefits family members as degenerative Parkinson’s. and carers through safer moving The company’s homelifts and handling provision.” provide safe, easy transfer Stiltz Homelifts combine between floors for those who style with advanced safety can’t safely use stairs. Through and can be installed without clinically-led client assessments, complex construction Stiltz Trusted Assessors or bespoke electrical work alongside healthcare requirements. A cost-effective Dani says: Before we had the professionals, case managers solution, they are available to Stiltz Homelift, my partner used to and expert witnesses, so the purchase privately or through a carry me upstairs. Not only was this correct product is specified. Disabled Facilities Grant. ■
TRANSFORMING LIFE WITH A SCI At the age of 27, mother-oftwo Dani Watts sustained spinal injury playing rugby and now uses a manual wheelchair. Supported by financial donations, Dani and her family purchased and adapted their home to support rehabilitation and enable independence. This included installation of a
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bad for his health, but it was extremely undignified for me. But now the Stiltz Homelift has transformed the way I live. I can help my children more, easily pop upstairs on my own if I’ve forgotten something, and go to bed independently when I want to … I’ve always been fiercely independent and my Stiltz Homelift has enabled me to continue living this way.
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