#disability aids for home

[disabilityhorizons]

Tru Grip - door handle extension kit

Easy to use – ergonomic shape and large handle provides extra leverage

Durable, weatherproof materials – can be used both indoors and outdoors

Innovative, multi-award-winning design – created to aid those with arthritis to open and close doors

You will receive 1 x Tru Grip left handle, 1 x Tru Grip right handle and 6 zip ties per order.

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Tru Grip is a door handle extension kit that can be used on almost any door handle to provide extra grip and leverage for those with painful joints and muscle conditions, such as arthritis.

Easy to use and easy to install, the Tru Grip is a long, durable handle with an ergonomic shape that provides better control when opening, closing or locking doors.

The curved, specially designed shape is large enough to be used by not only your hand, but your elbow, arm or whatever part of your body makes it easier for you to open the door - reducing stress and strain on sore, aching or damaged muscles and joints.

This multi-award-winning door handle is simply placed over your existing door handle and attached using zip ties, to ensure a secure, steady alternative to traditional, small door handles.

The Tru Grip can be used both indoors and outdoors, including PVC backdoors - however, due to the upwards pulling motion needed to lock PVC backdoors, it is suggested you install the Tru Grip upside to provide a better angle for use.

Quick and easy to install:

1. Place the Tru Grip over the handle of your door 2. Use a zip tie included in your kit, and slip it through the holes on the Tru Grip handle 3. Fasten the zip tie tightly around the handle, and trim off excess tie 4. Use at least 2 zip ties and ensure the Tru Grip is sturdy and secure before use

https://shop.disabilityhorizons.com/products/tru-grip-door-handle-extension-set/

[canonkiller]

Hi, I'm Canon. I'm a disabled artist with some kind of gender and homosexual tendencies. You might have seen my usernames around in posts about loving OCs, or complaining about video game inaccessibility, or attached to one of the worm-centric comics I made, like these ones:

I hate having to ask for help when there's already so much going on, but I am also At My Limit.

To make a long story short, I am very disabled in multiple ways and I am living in a very inaccessible (and often directly disability-hostile) home. While I live with family, they do not provide assistance (financial or otherwise) and our rural location and the glacial pace of Canada's social services have left me A Bit Fucked. (Whatever you think Canada's health care provides, either it doesn't, or it takes half a year to even book an appointment.)

I've asked for help in the past with smaller goals, but costs continue to add up - and this time, finally, I may be able to actually make permanent accessibility changes to the household... if I can fund it myself. On the amount I get from the disability support program in my province, I can't do that; I would have to stop eating for months to afford even one of the major renovations in that time, and, obviously, I can't do that.

What kind of accessibility updates would this be going towards?:

A wheelchair ramp at at least one exit of the house; there are four potential exits, and all of them are currently multiple sets of stairs without railings.

A stair lift (for upstairs access) or a walk in tub (for downstairs access), depending on what my family will agree to

Dressers / storage that I am physically capable of opening

HRT (guess what isn't covered by Canada's health care, apparently!)

A whole mess of medical appointments (vision, prescriptions, dental, infinite various symptom testings) and transportation to and from those appointments (guess what else isn't covered!!)

A functional freezer

Physiotherapy 👍

Food 👍👍👍

And how can you donate?:

Donate directly to my Ko-fi page

Pledge monthly to my Ko-fi membership tiers

Order a commission from me (you'll be added to a queue; I can't provide completion time estimates right now)

Buy my premade digital goods (TTRPG resources, bases, tattoo tickets, etc) through Ko-fi or itch.io

Buy my art on physical goods through Redbubble or INPRNT

Buy designs / adoptables I've made through Toyhouse

Buy things off of my Amazon accessibility wishlist

I'm trying to buy used and second-hand / go through free stuff groups where I can to save costs, so I don't have a fixed goal and genuinely every bit helps. I really want to be able to get back to functioning somewhat normally, and due to Circumstances - as embarrassing as it is - I can't do that on my own, and I can't keep struggling with it the way I have been.

Thank you for your time, and any help you're able to provide. Reblogs are welcome and appreciated.

[chronicallycouchbound]

I feel like people often don’t talk about the experiences of disabled people who have caretakers because so much of the conversation is about us—not including us.

I receive in home care for 30 hours a week (+ 4 hours/week for respite). This is paid for by Medicaid (state insurance). Outside of paid hours, my primary caretakers care for me unpaid and assist me most of the time. I’m very rarely left alone due to my high support needs. Often, when I am left alone, I am completely bedridden or at minimum housebound. I have frequent emergency life threatening health problems, falls, and serious injuries even with support in place, and these things significantly increase when I’m on my own.

I’m extremely lucky that my paid caretakers are my partner, my sister (the only family member I have regular contact with, I’m estranged from the rest of my immediate family and most of my extended family) and my best friend.

I used to have agency staffing which was horrible for me and borderline traumatic. At several points, before doing the self directed care option (which allows me to choose my own staff, hire and train them myself and dictate hours for them), I opted to not have any staffing. I was regularly in the emergency room. I can’t drive, so I was having to walk and if I was lucky enough to be able to take the bus on occasion or get a ride from a Facebook acquaintance, they were few and far in between. I don’t have family support, and even my sister who is supportive wasn’t living in the state at the time and doesn’t have a car most of the time.

And before I could even choose which staffing option, even though medically it had been deemed essential for me to have in home care, even though my insurance covered it, I had to wait several years (I was 18 when I was approved) until I was 21 to qualify to start. The reason why: I was legally an “adult disabled child” because of my high support needs (which is funny because I STILL don’t have SSI at age 24) and thus legally unable to consent to my own care plan. I needed a blood relative to consent, and that same blood relative (who had to have proof of such!) couldn’t care for me. At the time, my sister was the only person who could’ve been my caregiver and also she is the only verifiable blood relative I have contact with for safety reasons, and my only relative on this side of the USA.

The first business day after my 21st birthday I immediately got things set up to get in home care.

This is out of date, I get assistance with more than just these highlighted ADL (activities of daily living) tasks now.

In short: my day-to-day life is entirely dependent on others.

And there’s power imbalances that exist between me and my caregivers, even with my current caregivers being amazing and anti-ableist. They will always exist. We talk about the power dynamics of me being dependent on them for my survival, and how heavy that weight can be for each of us.

Having caregivers often means that accessibility is extra difficult— I’ve been told straight up multiple times that I can’t have assistance from my caregivers to help me change in a changing room when we’re out shopping. That they can’t go into the bathroom with me, that they can’t help me get un/dressed during appointments, that they can’t come into spaces with me.

I’ve been denied access to psychiatric care because I can’t do my daily living tasks (ADLs- the highlighted items) independently. And when I’m in a hospital or emergency room, I can’t have my in home workers be paid to care for me, there’s an expectation that the nursing staff at the hospital will do it. Even though my caregivers were specifically trained to learn my body and needs for weeks and have been working with me for years. I have severe cPTSD and showering in front of a stranger is something I cannot do. I would rather fall or faint or get injured or just not shower than deal with that. But I’m expected to just let anyone have access to my body just because I’m physically disabled and need support.

When I faint/fall/get injured/have life threatening health issues arise while I’m not clothed, or when I’m otherwise vulnerable, I’m supposed to let strangers just touch me however they want to. I have to show them my chest (for my cardiac care) and let them poke and examine me. I can’t object without losing access to vital care.

I have agency. I have rights. I have autonomy. I deserve to be able to exercise these things.

[chicago-geniza]

Tomorrow morning the state of Illinois is interviewing me to decide if I get healthcare or not and if I don't there is a non-trival chance of me becoming dead in the foreseeable future so everybody say "please reinstate Raya's Medicaid"

[enbycrip]

Started sticking a doggie waste bag on my rollator and bringing the grabber stick with me when walking Cynthie, because there’s just so much rubbish about and apparently the local association would rather pay for ridiculously over-frequent petrol mowing than litter pickup or more bins.

[saintsonnet]

CRIPPLED KID

It's poetry,

The way I limp across

The kitchen floor

To take my hot bag

Out of the microwave

For the sixth time today.

It's poetry,

My crinkled sheet of paper

With the stretches on it

That I always forget to do.

The click and tap

Of my cane and

Those boots with the special insoles

Is music.

A metronome keeping time

Along with my probably too-fast heartbeat.

Every action paints a picture

Of just another crippled kid

Trying to be normal.

I decorate my cane with stickers

And on the bad days I wish it were a wheelchair.

I use empty bottles of painkillers

As decorations.

Scattered here and there,

Ibuprofen,

Acetaminophen,

Aspirin,

Naproxen.

Maybe my liver is shot.

Watching, checking

How I crack my knuckles.

How I walk.

How my posture is.

How my arms are positioned

While I knit and crochet.

I am my own surveillance state

Keeping everything in line.

It's miserable, all this.

Watching, checking,

Empty bottles for decoration.

It's now time to limp

Across the kitchen floor

For a seventh time

To heat up my hot bag

Again.

Again.

[an--artistic--autistic]

my replacement cane finally came in, and it made me realize that my hip & knee pain was from using my backup folding cane and crutches all summer when neither of them are helpful for constant use

love them both dearly, but the folding cane is only helpful for short distances and is exhausting for any long term use, and the crutches are helpful for when I'm flaring up but never for daily use. also both of them are just slightly off with the sizing which ✨is not good✨ for daily use.

regardless, the new cane is exactly the same as my old one except it's not broken, and I'm back to regular mobility 🎉

[moodr1ng]

ik im being mean and petty again even tho i just said i was gonna have an apple juice and a pastry but i feel so 🙄🙄 whateverrr... when people are like are you struggling with cleaning due to depression? try this trick! and the trick is ALWAYS a variation of "choose a relatively easy cleaning task you can do in 5-10 minutes and then just motivate yourself to do it because 5-10 minutes is fast". like ohh we are NOT operating on the same level of depression lol. you got no idea...

[smoking-witch]

I just found your blog a few minutes ago. I don't know how, but you showed up in my BDSM feed. I love what you're doing and I love your recent suspensions and aerial dances, however I don't know your story so I don't really understand everything that's going on. I'm guessing that once you were a dancer and that some sort of illness, say MS, has made dancing impossible for you. If this is the case, then I truly appreciate your joy and wonder at discovering you can dance while suspended. From some of your comments I assume that you are lesbian but they're also hints that you could bi or pan. I hope you don't find my questions to intrusive. I love that you live in Santa Cruz which is not very far away from San Francisco. I think that's kind of cool. I loved your reference to the aquarium.

Long post alert ⚠️

Aww, welcome! Tysm for reaching out, I probably got pushed to you bc of my shibari content, and interaction w other kink accounts lol. Ty also for your kind words, I appreciate hearing them so much.

You're correct, I have some serious physical & mental health issues, and was actually bedridden for seven years. I thought I wouldn't walk again, let alone something like ride a bike (which I also now do!) or dance, which I did from very young childhood thru getting sick in my mid20s (now late 30s). It is incredibly liberating and gets me crying every time, that I found a way to dance again, and I find it tragically romantic that I can dance in literally no other way. The cherry on top is that I sprained my ankle very badly right before those pics were taken, and am on crutches now, but not even that is enough to make my dancing stop.

I actually did finally admit to myself literally yesterday morning that I'm a homoflexible lesbian, if not also caed, where I'd been kind of clutching to bisexuality like some kind of security blanket for the last several years. I also identify as trans nonbinary femme, she/he/they pronouns.

For the record, I felt nothing but care and human kindness from your questions, it feels wonderful to be invited to share these things about myself. It's not something I have much experience with yet, so tysm for asking ❤️

I'm a community organizer down here in Santa Cruz, I host a "NonMonogaMeetup" in town, and am getting established in the kink & queer communities as well, not sure how often you make it down here but feel free to check us out on Plura/Fet😊

P.S. I love that aquarium so much ❤️😭😭

[arctic-hands]

🎶I love my cane I love vaccines

But most of all I love freaking

out ableds by being a walking pharmacy 🎶

[disabilityhorizons]

Bed wedge mattress lifter - Solid Oak

Beautiful functional sustainable bed wedge for tucking in sheets and covers. Designed to last for many lifetimes – Created by the Disability Horizons Shop!

Save your back by using our solid oak Bed Wedge mattress lifter to help tuck in sheets and bedding when making the bed

Made in a workshop in Newark-on-Trent, UK – The Bed Wedge mattress lifter is built to last using solid oak and every purchase supports British manufacturing.

Lightweight – Weighs just 400g!

The inclined wedge design separates and lifts the mattress as it slides in, reducing strain on your body when twisting and lifting a mattress to tuck in the sheet. 

The curved handle design allows you to grip the Bed Wedge mattress lifter at a natural wrist position providing greater comfort, strength and transfer of energy.

The level ledge holds the mattress in a raised position, alleviating pressure toonour spine and leaving both hands free to make the bed.

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Today's thicker, heavier mattresses can make changing the sheets and making a bed not only challenging but also painful.

With the Bed Wedge mattress lifter, you can make your bed independently and with ease, protect your back and avoid the stress of lifting heavy mattresses.

Made from solid oak in a workshop here in Newark-on-Trent, the Bed Wedge mattress lifter is stylish and built to last a lifetime.

With an angled, ergonomic design it effortlessly lifts the mattress as the device is inserted between the mattress and box spring.

The mattress is then held safely in an elevated position on the ledge giving ample working room to tuck in sheets, blankets and other bedding.

The product is light and easy to use, at just 400g. Take control and make your bed with ease!

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T3EfqMne5TQ

Elevate Your Comfort: Why the 'Bed Wedge' Wooden Mattress Lifter is the Ultimate Bedroom Accessory

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Conclusion

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  Material : Solid Oak. http://disability-health-shop.myshopify.com/products/bed-wedge-mattress-lifter-solid-oak

[jellydishes]

stares into empty space, tacks up "It's family inflicted trauma, babe!!!" next to "It's depression, babe!!!" for why i've been refusing to go to the dentist or get myself disability aids or

[daz4i]

once i'm able to do phone calls without having 3 panic attacks beforehand you'll see. you'll all see

[infinitetrainss]

I have chronic pain and the other day it was so bad that I needed to use a motorized cart to go grocery shopping, and the amount of looks I got... lucky there was this one guy in the toy isle (I was looking at sonic figures) was with his kid and was like "oh! make sure you aren't in the way!" super Nicely to his kid and that made me feel a lot better.

[beesandboswells]

Hey y'all. Please help out my lbgtq disabled friend and hir partner. Ze has had it rough lately so any bit helps if you can't donate please share

[ceruleanterrapin]

Went to the thrift store and bought a cane. It's not exactly what I'm looking for but it's hopefully going to help at least a little with my walking issues

I also got ankle supports because I have issues with them