It has been about ten years at this point since I initially started working in the sphere of Community Health care, and it a short time ago dawned on me simply how much I have come to find out concerning the diverse issues that the people I work in the midst of must manage every day. After I initially began my employment as a Resident Care Aid I didn’t really know that a lot vis-à-vis how individuals deal with their disabilities every day in their communities,barring what had been taught to me in the course of classes by my instructors. To be truthful though, it is something to be told what matters to a disabled person and something else to in fact get a first hand view of what really matters to someone living in your community, to gain an grasp of what their day to day challenges really are. Before working in community care I could not have relayed to you much of anythingwith regards to what a mobility aid would be never mind many of those noteworthy differences among them.

Prior to going into healthcare, I knew what a motorized wheelchair was but wasn’t in actual fact sure what was intended by the expression power chair or whatwere the differences between the electric wheelchair operating on a series of gears as opposed to a system of belts; I had seen personal mobility scooters being used by disabled individuals and the elderly but at the same time if you asked me what a medical mobility scooter was and who it was more matched for, I would not in actuality have any real clue.

Proceding yet further into the domicile, I did not have any perception of the reality of such mobility aids as lift chairs, and although I had already had a restricted experience to such mobility-enhancing mechanisms as stairchair lifts in the past, I did not understand the more slight differences that exist between the different makes and models of such devices. With subsequent missives, I would like to seize the opportunity to in a sense codify those things – those tid bits of handy knowlege that I have picked up over time, so that anyone else out there with a sense of curiosity towards such matters may as well find out something original.