| Disability aids are vital to those who suffer problems | | | | help in lifting people from specific areas, be it a |
| with executing work with two hands. These are | | | | bathtub or a set of stairs. These lifts are of varied |
| people who have been rendered disabled due to | | | | types and come for numerous applications. It is for |
| some major sickness or some other problems. In | | | | the individual to decide the type that he/she requires |
| order to help them carry on their work in the normal | | | | to use. |
| way, disability aids are manufactured. This helps them | | | | For people, who have problems in balancing their |
| making their life a lot easier than what it would have | | | | upper bodies in a stable manner, there is something |
| been without these aids. The kind of disability aids | | | | known as Grab rails. These grab rails are installed for |
| that an individual might require depends on the | | | | those who have mobility problems in their upper |
| person only. It is the problem that a person faces | | | | bodies. These rails come in varieties of shapes, sizes |
| that decides the aids that he/she will use for carrying | | | | and angles. These grab rails are available to home |
| out their respective jobs. Following is the list of a few | | | | users as well, in their different variations. One can |
| disability aids that come of significant use. | | | | purchase and fix one to their homes according to |
| The first and foremost aid is the stocking aid. Aiding | | | | one's specificities. These grab rails require the act of |
| the individuals suffering from the problem of bending | | | | screwing and drilling in order to fix them to their |
| down to reach the foot and wear their own socks. | | | | appropriate place. The prices of these rails also vary |
| These stocking aids constitute a gutter that is made | | | | according to the variation of their shapes and sizes. A |
| up of plastic material. These gutters are shaped in a | | | | portable book holder is a much sought after disability |
| certain way along with the attachment of cotton | | | | aid. It can be used by anybody for that matter, not |
| tapes in it. The sock is then put over the gutter. The | | | | just the disabled. These portable book holders are |
| foot is placed inside the gutter. The cotton tapes | | | | light weight and can be easily moved about. These |
| help in pulling the socks up the leg and subsequently | | | | holders relieve the strains on one's hands, necks and |
| the sock. In this manner, the sock is worn by a | | | | shoulders that might occur due to the handling of a |
| person who has problem wearing it by bending one's | | | | book. The holders are provided with extended legs |
| back and reaching the foot. | | | | that help in placing the reading material at suitable |
| There are openers that help the people who have | | | | distance. |
| problem with their hands or wrists to open bottles of | | | | Thus with the help of these disability aids, the old and |
| ketchup, jam and other such bottles and jars that | | | | disabled people can make their lives much more |
| necessitates the use of hands and fingers. Third type | | | | convenient and comfortable that would otherwise |
| of disability aids that comes to our minds are Lifts. | | | | have been a cumbersome and a complex one. |
| Now what are lifts? Lifts are certain machines that | | | | |