Wheelchairs

This website is a good resource for people who need mobility devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, scooters, etc. It provides descriptions of devices, information about funding programs and assistance, links to vendors' catalogues and other relevant resources. The author is an individual who has put this website together for informational purposes and is paid for by advertisements from home-based health devices providers in Canada.

If you need a walker or a wheelchair after an illness or injury, you may be wondering how you can afford to buy one. The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has a program to help you with some of these costs. This is called the Assistive Devices Program (ADP). This program covers over 8,000 separate pieces of equipment, supplies, and aids.

This resource provides information about the Assistive Devices Program (ADP), which provides consumer centered support and funding to Ontario residents who have long-term physical disabilities and to provide access to personalized assistive devices appropriate for the individual’s basic needs.

This book attempts to teach people with physical limitations of strength, flexibility and balance to improve their abilities and regain fuller, healthier lives. It discusses and describes simple exercises that work all parts of the body and can be done sitting in a wheelchair.

This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about assistive devices. Topics covered include "getting started", "additional tips on choosing and using assistive devices", and the "government of Canada's role."

This A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience. The book is full of practical advice, from wheelchair selection to intimacy, personal hygiene and accessibility issues.

Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm and acerbic wit, author's memoir tells the story of surviving Polio and his journey from the iron lung to life in a wheelchair. Presley is no wheelchair hero, no inspiring figure preaching patience and gratitude. Prevented, literally, from taking that next step, he became cranky and crabby, anxious and alienated, a rolling responsibility crippled not just by polio but by anger and depression, “a crip all over, starting with the brain.” Slowly, however, despite the limitations of navigating in a world before the Americans with Disabilities Act, he builds an independent life.

The author, a reporter and a paraplegic since an auto accident at age nineteen, holds nothing back in this achingly honest, often hilarious chronicle filled with lively stories which defy physical, emotional and psychological obstacles of living and working from a wheelchair.