What is the purpose of the scooter?

Is it to help you navigate through your home or is it to run to the grocery store? The point is to consider your needs.

How often will it [...]]]> The first thing to consider when looking into  mobility scooters would be to understand what it is you are looking to accomplish. 

What is the purpose of the scooter?

Is it to help you navigate through your home or is it to run to the grocery store? The point is to consider your needs.

How often will it be used?

Some folks are capable of completely eliminating their automobile and utilize the mobility scooter in all facets of their lives. If this is your goal then a Larger scooter is probably the direction you should continue. (Consider the space available in your home)

If personal mobility in your home is a priority you may consider a power wheelchair. Power wheelchairs are extremely agile and capable of “spinning or rotating”  in confined spaces. They are also built solid enough to take or use outdoors.

Both mobility scooters and power wheelchairs can be loaded onto power lifts. These lifts mount to the back of your vehicle to a class three hitch. The hitches are available at any u-haul shop. They have a large selection and can install that day. Most mid size and up vehicles can support a lift.  Not all!

Lightweight scooters are designed to be quickly and easily disassembled and placed into the trunk. They are all approximately 100 lbs in total weight give or take. As they are considered light weight you must still consider the amount of effort and personal agility to take one apart. The batteries will be the heaviest portion at about 35 lbs. You must be able to bend and lift comfortably or consider a larger scooter with a power lift.

REMEMBER:

1. What is the purpose?

2. Consider your needs!

3. Power Wheelchairs and Mobility Scooters can be loaded onto lifts.

4. Lightweight still requires effort to disassemble.

First of all, you will need a Doctor’s Prescription. Your Physician must state that you have [...]]]> Medicare and Insurance companies will cover the expense of a new power wheelchair.  Up to 80%  if you meet certain criteria. Some companies like spinlife.com will help with  the medicare billing process but the criteria remain the same for all.

First of all, you will need a Doctor’s Prescription. Your Physician must state that you have a need for mobility in your home. That you are bed ridden and not capable to maneuver your home without the help of a mobility aid. Medicare or your Insurance company is not going to pay for a device just so you can get around outdoors. It must not be for mere convenience or recreational use. “You must have a physical need for the mobility chair in your home.”

Further requirements include that you are fully capable of operating the scooter safely on your own. A Doctor’s assessment to determine “ability to operate” is needed.

You must be “mentally capable” to operate such equipment. Also, a Doctors assessment to determine ability to operate is needed.

Clear or corrected vision is obviously important in the operation of these scooters and power wheelchairs. Make sure to have your Doctor include this in his assessment for a mobility chair.

Your home must be capable of allowing a chair movement to have any effectiveness at all. It is not going to help you to get a chair that has no room to maneuver. They come with some pretty concise controls allowing you to spin on a dime but you will still need to arrange the furniture.

Mobility Scooters and Power Wheelchairs are a great advantage for those whom need them to keep up in a busy world. Allowing access and freedom to an independent lifestyle.

Your Doctor is the best one to help in the process. He is the one that will make the determination as to your mobility needs. So needless to say the better you get along with them the more likely your Medicare or Insurance will pick up the 80%.

For some people though, they are also a  necessity to living life beyond the front porch. A device that allows freedom into areas that once were easier to get to. Maybe  going to the grocery store has become much more difficult than it used to be. With a [...]]]> Mobility Scooters are a lot of fun!

For some people though, they are also a  necessity to living life beyond the front porch. A device that allows freedom into areas that once were easier to get to. Maybe  going to the grocery store has become much more difficult than it used to be. With a scooter to help navigate parking lots and carry you down the isles. Running life’s errands becomes easier and gives you “Self Confidence”.  

I would like to educate people on the mobility scooter market and bring to light some of the great products available online. A mobility scooter just may be the thing to bring freedom back into your life.

But before I get ahead of myself I need to learn how to build a site to showoff these items. Hopefully I will eventually create something that will not only be visually appealing but provide a service to the community.

Thank you!