Standing wheelchair

Standing wheelchair facilitates housework – suitable for wheelchair users

Description
Wheelchair with manual stand-up function

Model: Levo

Authors comments
The user uses the standing wheelchair to practice standing and for housework. Using the standing wheelchair she can wash chandeliers and windows, and dust door frames and pictures hanging on walls.
She likes being able to reach the ceiling and stretch.

Purchased from
In Sweden: Handicare, www.handicare.se (last checked June 2011)

Paid for by
County Council

Tip is dated from 2010

Categories for this tip
carrying, moving and handling objects » picking up/taking down, household tasks » cleaning, looking after ones health » training, Tips and tricks from people with Low paraplegia (Th11- S1, ASIA A, B).