The scooter lift is an invention that enables elderly and handicapped individuals to enjoy further independence. Loss of mobility has made it increasingly difficult for them to move around; the use of mobility scooters has given them a large degree of independence, and a scooter lifthelps them to take their independence around with them at home or on vehicles when travelling.
Buying a scooter lift should be looked upon as a long-term investment forthese individuals. It is therefore important to appreciate the positive influence that the right scooter lift can have on such people and their families. The selection of an appropriate scooter lift is an essential part in achieving this objective.
For transporting a scooter, the lift can be attached behind a vehicle, a mobile home or a trailer for holding and carrying their mobility scooterswith complete ease. This lift has the capacity to raise the scooter and tomanoeuvre it into the correct position for the journey. A further advantageis that with a scooter lift, the mobility scooter being transported can be held in place outside the vehicle allowing more interior space for luggage and other accessories.
Scooter lifts are available in various makes and models with a large range of features. They don't weigh too much but can lift, hold and carry approximately 300 pounds of weight. They are affordable, easy to use and easy to maintain and clean. When not in use, scooter lifts can be disassembled for easy storage. Their dimensions vary according to the model being purchased; platform and jack-type models are available.
Most models offer steel construction, a protective coating finish, twelve volt DC motor with optional battery pack. Easy-to-use controls allow safe, simple and reliable operation. They are designed to provide ease of
mobility and accessibility for the difficulties experienced by the disabled and elderly in their daily lives.
Gregory Hepburn is an online marketer and entrepreneur who specializes in content websites. His new website on Scooter Lift has been published. Please see http://www.scooter-store.org for more information.
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Friendships that Endure By Roxanne Furlong
In 1960, when she was 10 years old, Jackie Van Duzee, of St. Paul, Minn., began to notice at recess that it was becoming harder to exercise. The last one picked for teams, she began using her mind instead of her feet to make it through the bases: keeping an eagle eye on the kid with the ball so she could steal the next base when he looked away.
Heading into seventh grade, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and fascioscapularhumeral muscular dystrophy, a progressive, degenerative muscle disease. Her disability was already noticeable to her classmates, and friends from grade school now shunned her. She walked by lifting her right leg as if to march, moving forward to back with each step and swaying side to side due to the scoliosis. In junior high, the couple of friends she had were fellow drummers in band. No one else approached her or talked to her.
"One afternoon, I was waiting for my mom to pick me up, but she was late," says Van Duzee. "I got tired of standing, so I went into the auditorium to sit down for a while. It was dark and there were kids way down near the stage. They could tell it was me when I walked in the door, and one of them yelled, 'Hey! There's Chicken Breast!' It was a name that kids called me because my back curved and my chest stuck out."
Van Duzee spent many nights lying in bed crying, praying the torment would stop.
"It hurt so much to not have friends at school, but I knew I had the comfort of a loving family to come home to," she says.
Alone in a Crowd
Van Duzee was studious in high school. During lunch, the cafeteria would be packed with kids at long lunch tables, yelling, laughing, horsing around. Van Duzee sat at a table by herself. Nobody would join her or let her sit with them. She ate lunch alone her entire freshman year.
The high school had three floors, no elevators, and Van Duzee fell down many times on the wide, crowded stairways or in the hallways after being bumped or tripped.
"Once I was going downstairs and fell and landed on my knees and my books went flying," she says. "The stairs were filled with kids and I looked up pleadingly for help, but everybody kept on going. I carefully picked up my books, limped to the bathroom and put cold paper towels on my knees."
A gifted artist, Van Duzee went to vocational school for commercial art. Unlike high school, in this setting she made friends easily. "It was a whole new world, you didn't have that peer pressure."
After graduation, she got a job proofreading advertising copy at a firm in downtown St. Paul. There she met the person who would become her lifelong, constant friend and soul mate, Anne Froehle.
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Heading into seventh grade, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and fascioscapularhumeral muscular dystrophy, a progressive, degenerative muscle disease. Her disability was already noticeable to her classmates, and friends from grade school now shunned her. She walked by lifting her right leg as if to march, moving forward to back with each step and swaying side to side due to the scoliosis. In junior high, the couple of friends she had were fellow drummers in band. No one else approached her or talked to her.
"One afternoon, I was waiting for my mom to pick me up, but she was late," says Van Duzee. "I got tired of standing, so I went into the auditorium to sit down for a while. It was dark and there were kids way down near the stage. They could tell it was me when I walked in the door, and one of them yelled, 'Hey! There's Chicken Breast!' It was a name that kids called me because my back curved and my chest stuck out."
Van Duzee spent many nights lying in bed crying, praying the torment would stop.
"It hurt so much to not have friends at school, but I knew I had the comfort of a loving family to come home to," she says.
Alone in a Crowd
Van Duzee was studious in high school. During lunch, the cafeteria would be packed with kids at long lunch tables, yelling, laughing, horsing around. Van Duzee sat at a table by herself. Nobody would join her or let her sit with them. She ate lunch alone her entire freshman year.
The high school had three floors, no elevators, and Van Duzee fell down many times on the wide, crowded stairways or in the hallways after being bumped or tripped.
"Once I was going downstairs and fell and landed on my knees and my books went flying," she says. "The stairs were filled with kids and I looked up pleadingly for help, but everybody kept on going. I carefully picked up my books, limped to the bathroom and put cold paper towels on my knees."
A gifted artist, Van Duzee went to vocational school for commercial art. Unlike high school, in this setting she made friends easily. "It was a whole new world, you didn't have that peer pressure."
After graduation, she got a job proofreading advertising copy at a firm in downtown St. Paul. There she met the person who would become her lifelong, constant friend and soul mate, Anne Froehle.
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Vocational Expert's 7 Proposals to Solve the Unemployment Problem
The subject is constantly in the news and may decide the next national elections - the infamous jobless recovery. More than 8 million Americans are out of work with another 4 million underemployed or no longer looking for work. Good manufacturing, technical and services jobs are being shipped to India, Asia, and other developing countries. The mood of the middle and working class becomes more pessimistic, the outlook for their immediate future more grim.
Politicians debate solutions: abrogating current trade treaties, providing protection for various industries, investment in retraining programs, wishful thinking that lower taxes will turn everything around, the promise of a labor shortage within 15 years.
Meanwhile, the population grows, demanding the creation of 150,000 new jobs per month just to stay even. Where are the more than 2 million 2004 jobs promised by the Council of Economic Advisers?
They will come when the government truly invests in the social and financial welfare of the working public. Historically, the U.S. has looked at employment only in times of crisis - recession or alarming unemployment figures. Rather than "quick fixes," we need a national long- range policy on employment which addresses the issue, in good times and bad, with sustained interest, analysis, and support.
Here are seven proposals:
1. Create a National Office of Employment to develop long term strategies and oversight of the U.S. labor market in order to track trends, analyze data, research emerging problems, and prepare early interventions.
2. Identify growing and potential industries and the skills they will need in future staff.
3. Design a plan which allows for the rapid retargeting of training courses as Community Colleges and vocational schools are traditionally 5 to 15 years behind current needs.
4. Provide substantial tax incentives for businesses to hire in the U.S. rather than shipping their jobs to low income countries.
5. Devise "red-tape-less" programs to reward employers with significant tax credits for hiring the long-term employed and new trainees.
6. Overhaul the processes of State Unemployment Offices by implementing coordinated support programs in which workers participate as part of receiving unemployment benefits and employers participate as a means of meeting their future needs for staff.
7. Provide incentives for employers to hire more part-time workers. Simultaneously, America must reframe its social policy to promote a new work ethic of reduced work hours, along with increased leisure and volunteer activities, to allow more workers to be employed, albeit for fewer hours. Due to the negative emotional effects of living without work, our society needs to stress high employment rather than high productivity which often translates into fewer workers, working harder and longer.
Dr. Bola operated a rehabilitation company, developing innovative job search techniques for disabled workers, for 20 years. A licensed clinical psychologist, she directed vocational programs for the mentally ill, served as a Vocational Expert in administrative and civil court, and pioneered vocational testimony in Workers' Compensation.
Author of The Wolf at the Door: An Unemployment Survival Manual, she can be found at: http://www.virginiabola.com/
Politicians debate solutions: abrogating current trade treaties, providing protection for various industries, investment in retraining programs, wishful thinking that lower taxes will turn everything around, the promise of a labor shortage within 15 years.
Meanwhile, the population grows, demanding the creation of 150,000 new jobs per month just to stay even. Where are the more than 2 million 2004 jobs promised by the Council of Economic Advisers?
They will come when the government truly invests in the social and financial welfare of the working public. Historically, the U.S. has looked at employment only in times of crisis - recession or alarming unemployment figures. Rather than "quick fixes," we need a national long- range policy on employment which addresses the issue, in good times and bad, with sustained interest, analysis, and support.
Here are seven proposals:
1. Create a National Office of Employment to develop long term strategies and oversight of the U.S. labor market in order to track trends, analyze data, research emerging problems, and prepare early interventions.
2. Identify growing and potential industries and the skills they will need in future staff.
3. Design a plan which allows for the rapid retargeting of training courses as Community Colleges and vocational schools are traditionally 5 to 15 years behind current needs.
4. Provide substantial tax incentives for businesses to hire in the U.S. rather than shipping their jobs to low income countries.
5. Devise "red-tape-less" programs to reward employers with significant tax credits for hiring the long-term employed and new trainees.
6. Overhaul the processes of State Unemployment Offices by implementing coordinated support programs in which workers participate as part of receiving unemployment benefits and employers participate as a means of meeting their future needs for staff.
7. Provide incentives for employers to hire more part-time workers. Simultaneously, America must reframe its social policy to promote a new work ethic of reduced work hours, along with increased leisure and volunteer activities, to allow more workers to be employed, albeit for fewer hours. Due to the negative emotional effects of living without work, our society needs to stress high employment rather than high productivity which often translates into fewer workers, working harder and longer.
Dr. Bola operated a rehabilitation company, developing innovative job search techniques for disabled workers, for 20 years. A licensed clinical psychologist, she directed vocational programs for the mentally ill, served as a Vocational Expert in administrative and civil court, and pioneered vocational testimony in Workers' Compensation.
Author of The Wolf at the Door: An Unemployment Survival Manual, she can be found at: http://www.virginiabola.com/
Finding Employment When You Are Disabled-by Joann Grant
With growing competency and educational standards, it has become hard to find a job that satisfies both your pocket and desires. And if you are struck with any form of disability at any level, your difficulties increase manifold.
Disabilities have been classified into many categories. Broadly, there are minor disabilities and major ones. Depending on the magnitude of your disability, you get the job. With certain disabilities you can find a job in the open job market as well. For instance, there are minor disability like a limp in a limb or a highly hunched back that might not come as a hurdle between you and your desired job. But other disabilities like an imputed limb or vision impairment can create colossal hurdles.
However, many of the State governments have provided breathers in the form of special job arenas for disabled. For the disabled people special places are made, besides the contemporary job market where they can find good job opportunities. Various places where a person suffering from disability can find a job are:
Sheltered Workshops: If a person is suffering from moderate to severe form of disability, sheltered workshops are the best places to find the job. A sheltered workshop is a place where disabled can learn to do the basic things like packaging of goods, assembling items, to name a few. All this is done through a sub-contracted work.
Production Workshop: Production workshop is a workplace ideal for the people who have moderate disabilities. Here people learn the art of printing and manufacturing. Such people are predominantly known to work in production line.
Open Market: People who are afflicted with slight to moderate disabilities can try and find a good job in an open market. In doing so, they can take help of various job placements organizations. These placement organizations will help them in locating a suitable job of their interests and needs.
For acquiring a good job, an important prerequisite is good education qualification. But besides contemporary form of education, people with disabilities can also look for an option in the vocational field. Through this, they can learn certain skills of basic livelihood, before stepping for a job in the corporate world.
To know more about disability details and disability and other health problems visit http://www.about-disability.com/disability-aids
Disabilities have been classified into many categories. Broadly, there are minor disabilities and major ones. Depending on the magnitude of your disability, you get the job. With certain disabilities you can find a job in the open job market as well. For instance, there are minor disability like a limp in a limb or a highly hunched back that might not come as a hurdle between you and your desired job. But other disabilities like an imputed limb or vision impairment can create colossal hurdles.
However, many of the State governments have provided breathers in the form of special job arenas for disabled. For the disabled people special places are made, besides the contemporary job market where they can find good job opportunities. Various places where a person suffering from disability can find a job are:
Sheltered Workshops: If a person is suffering from moderate to severe form of disability, sheltered workshops are the best places to find the job. A sheltered workshop is a place where disabled can learn to do the basic things like packaging of goods, assembling items, to name a few. All this is done through a sub-contracted work.
Production Workshop: Production workshop is a workplace ideal for the people who have moderate disabilities. Here people learn the art of printing and manufacturing. Such people are predominantly known to work in production line.
Open Market: People who are afflicted with slight to moderate disabilities can try and find a good job in an open market. In doing so, they can take help of various job placements organizations. These placement organizations will help them in locating a suitable job of their interests and needs.
For acquiring a good job, an important prerequisite is good education qualification. But besides contemporary form of education, people with disabilities can also look for an option in the vocational field. Through this, they can learn certain skills of basic livelihood, before stepping for a job in the corporate world.
To know more about disability details and disability and other health problems visit http://www.about-disability.com/disability-aids
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