Products: Activities of Daily Living
The following links are to commercial product resources. Don't forget to use the non-commercial information resources in the Community Living Section of WheelchairNet to learn more about each of these topics.
These links are intended to assist the public in learning more about products that can be useful to persons who use wheelchairs or who interact with people who use wheelchairs. The information presented on this page is not intended as medical advice. You should always consult your doctor or other healthcare professional if you have questions or concerns about what products are best for you in both the long and short term. The presence of a product on this page should not be considered a referral or endorsement.
Breathing
Sitting: Pressure Management and Positioning
Sleeping
- Comfort House Online Shopping - pillows & cushions.
- Franklin Medical Supply - electrically adjustable beds,decorator or hospital-style.
- Gaymar Industries - beds, mattresses and overlays.
- GoldenRest Beds - adjustable beds.
- Golden Technologies - adjustable beds.
- Guldmann - an international company: hospital beds.
- ActiveForever - click on "bed and relaxation."
- Jameson Medical, Inc. - click on " products."
- Kinsman Enterprises, Inc. - bed pull-up and other ADL products.
- Maternal Concepts, Ltd. - an adjustable maternity mattress.
- Mail Order Medical Supply, Inc. - click on "around the house."
- Span America - mattress replacements and mattress overlays.
- Sammons Preston - look in "Resting Comfortably" for pillows, leg spacers, torso wedges.
- Soma Safe Enclosure - and alternative to conventional restraints.
- Transfer Master - powered, adjustable, hi-lo beds.
- TurnSoft - a line of anti-decubitus mattresses.
- WAFFLE - products for bed sore & pressure ulcer prevention.
- Wheelchairs of Kansas - bariatric beds.
- Volker Beds - this company doesn't have its own website but you can see the product on this site.
- 1-800-wheelchair.com - beds and mattresses.
Fertility
Transfer Aids
- Accessible Designs, Inc. - manufacturer of anti-slip transfer board.
- Barrier Free Lifts, Inc. - mechanized lifts that mount on tracks in the ceiling.
- BeasyTrans - a sliding transfer device.
- Bed-Bar - support rail used for getting in and out of bed.
- BXL - Steady Mate poles.
- Easy Pivot Transfer Machine - a transfer device invented by an engineer with tetraplegia.
- E-Z Pull Bed positioning sheet - Aquila corporation - click on products.
- Gelârt International Limited -specialized adaptive equipment such as prone standers, seating systems, bath lifts etc.
- Guldmann - an international company: lifts, ramps and beds.
- Garaventa - EvacuTrac emergency exit chair.
- Hoyer - a product of Sunrise Medical - click on Hoyer.
- HealthCraft Products - transfer poles and rails.
- LiftVest - an aid in wheelchair transfers and walking stability.
- Medcare Products - manufacturer of transfer lifts and standing lifts.
- Nuprodx - a tub slider system for bathroom transfer.
- Rehab Seating Systems, Inc. - high seats, lift chairs and motorized lifting commode chairs.
- RehabMed Technologies - pool lifts, ceiling moounted lifts, floor lifts, and controlled weight-bearing lifts for rehabilitation.
- SureHands - ceiling mounted lift with multiple applications to enable independence in transfers.
- Therafin Corporation - select transfer products.
- UPlift Seat Assist - help getting up from a seated position - Uplift Technologies, Inc.
- Vivax Mobility System - a product that allows automated transfer of a person from bed to a specially designed wheelchair.
- Waverly Glen Systems, Ltd. - ceiling lifts for home and institutional care.
- Wheelchairs of Kansas - bariatric transfer products.
- 1-800-wheelchair.com - mobility transfer handle.
Safety Products
- AliMed - once on the website click on "search by product category" and choose "wheelchair safety."
- AOK Global Products - rescue chair for transport of a disabled person down or up a flight of stairs.
- Evac+Chair -for the emergency evacuation of the disabled via building fire stairs.
- EvacuTrac - for emergency evacuation of persons with mobility challenges.
- Extendahand - locking extension assistance grab bar.
- Globaleather - attachable flashing lights, etc.
- Invacare - safety flag for wheelchair users.
- Lawrence-Nelson, LLC. - one-sided wheelchair locking system that secures both wheelchair wheels.
- LiftVest - an aid in wheelchair transfers and walking stability.
- Haseltine Flyers - protective travel cases for wheelchairs.
- Mail Order Medical Supply, Inc. - click on "around the house."
- Pakkie - mobility sling for rescue and evacuation by Judy Hoit.
- Reflectively Yours - self-adhesive reflective wheelchair stripes.
- Res-Q-Chair - allows emergency exit down stairs for a person who uses a wheelchair.
- SeniorShops - sells a "cane butler" which is an inexpensive clip with a self-adhesive backing allows you to keep a cane or canes where you want them.
- SAFER Automatic Wheelchair Wheel Lock, Inc. - prevent accidental roll-away of a wheelchair for someone physically or mentally unable to use the handbrakes.
- SafetyVue - door viewer that allow wheelchair users to see out without having to reach up to a peephole.
Bowel and Bladder
- Allegro Medical Supplies Inc. - click on "urologicals/ catheters."
- Heartline Medical- specialize in urological supplies.
- Armor Manufacturing Corporation - click on "products" then on "medicals."
- Astra Tech - manufacturers of intermittent urinary catheters.
- BioDerm - External Continence Device (ECD).
- Clark Medical Products - click on "product" then on "commodes."
- Columbia Medical - toilet trunk supports when assistance is needed for sitting.
- Concepts in Confidence - a rectal suppository for a bowel program.
- Devoted Medical Supply - adult diapers, external catheter, protective underwear, etc.
- DS MEDICAL - supplier of urological, bowel management, and incontinence products.
- Freshette - a portable female urinal system by SaniFem.
- Home Care Delivered, Inc. - will make home delivery of incontinence and diabetic products.
- Home Delivery Incontinence Supplies - to your door in discreet, unmarked boxes.
- Lubidet - delivers an intimate body cleansing with a warm water spray after every toilet use.
- Nuprodx - the MultiChair, a combination tub, shower and toilet chair.
- PIE - a safe and effective means of managing bowel care.
- Rehab Seating Systems, Inc. - motorized lifting toilet seat.
- Rusch Inc. - closed system intermittent catheter.
- Shield Healthcare - click on " urological."
- StandAid of Iowa - Power toilet aid - a motorized lifting toilet seat.
- SportAid/MedAid - in this online catalog go to "U" for urologicals.
- UPlift Commode Seat Assist - helps users raise themselves from the commode.
Bath and Shower
- Abbey Medical - click on "our products" then on "personal care" and "personal safety and protection."
- ActiveAid - many models of shower and transfer bench.
- Allegro Medical Supplies Inc. - click on "bathroom assists."
- Apres Shower Dryer - an after shower blow dryer for the entire body.
- Assistive Technology, Inc. - furniture grade PVC bath, shower and transfer benches. Includes the "swivel bather" to assist with in and out of the tub.
- American Bidet Bathlette Company - bathroom personal hygiene accessories.
- Aquatec - water powered bath lifts in several configurations. Clarke Healthcare Products
- Bath Buddy - a product from the UK - it fills with water, then lowers the user down as it empties and refills to raise the user back up.
- Bathing & Bath Safety - Comfort House Online Shopping.
- BathKnight - a product from the UK - a wall-mounted motorized sling that the user controls to lower them selves down and then up when the bath is over.
- Bathomatic - by Fabrico - a bathlift with a water-filled seat that empties to lower you into the tub.
- Clark Medical Products - hand held shower system, bath and shower chairs, bathtub transfer benches, raised toliet seats, and bathroom safety products.
- Duralife - tilt-in-space wheeled shower/commode chair.
- EZ-Access - bathe, shampoo, shower, sitz bath.
- Fortuna bathlifts - sold by Accessible Environments, Inc.
- Home Depot - now carries grab bars, bath benches, etc. Check their resource on bath safety accessories.
- Gelârt International Limited - a New Zealand company that manufactures bath lifts for children.
- Hy~Gina - a portable system that offers a new approach to showering.
- ActiveForever - click on "bath safety and hygiene."
- Jameson Medical, Inc. - click on " products".
- Kinsman Enterprises, Inc. - bathing/hygiene products.
- Innovative Products Unlimited - PVC tubing in shower chairs, etc.
- Maddak - Aids for Independent Living.
- MobilityStore - click on "bathroom aids".
- Mail Order Medical Supply, Inc. - bathroom accessories, shower/tub and toliet assist.
- Mulholland - Kiwi bath aid for children.
- New England Medical System - click on "bathroom aids."
- North Coast Medical
- Nuprodx - the MultiChair, a combination tub, shower and toilet chair.
- Otto Bock US - click on "bathroom aids."
- Phillips Lift Systems - manufacturer of the tush push toilet lifts.
- Keeney Manufacturing Company
- Sammons Preston - look in "Easier Personal Care."
- SportAid/MedAid - in this online catalog go to "S" for shower.
- Snug Seat - shower and bath aids.
- Stand Aid - click on "power toilet aid."
- TUB CUT - creates shower-like access for any existing bathtub.
- WestCanProducts.com - click on "bathroom."
- Wheelchairs of Kansas - bariatric bath aides.
Grooming and Personal Hygiene
Wheelchair Scales
Wheelchair Canopy
Adapted Clothing
- AbleApparel - fashionable, functional & affordable adaptive clothing.
- Accessible Threads - offer clothing and alterations for people with special needs.
- Adaptive Apparel - easy to manage clothing for older adults.
- Adaptations by Adrian - adaptive clothing for adults and kids.
- Buck & Buck Designs - quality clothing for home health care and nursing home residents.
- Care Apparel - adaptive and incontinent wear.
- Clothing Solutions - clothes for those who needs full or partial assistance dressing.
- Comfort Clothing - easy-to-don clothing at a reasonable price.
- Dignity By Design - easy access, fashionable, career, and casual apparel for persons with disabilities.
- Easy Does It Clothing - clothing to help individuals achieve "Independent Dressing for Independent Living"
- It Finally Fits - specializing in clothing that is easy to fasten.
- ITA-MED, Co. - Compression hosiery, support stockings, and back support garments.
- Markell Shoes - corrective and accommodative footware.
- Pip Squeakers - baby and toddler shoes that motivate with sound and encourage movement.
- Professional Clothing - quality clothing that is comfortable, fashionable, functional, and affordable.
- Rolli-Moden - uncompromising fashion for people in chairs!
- SCOTTeVEST - multi-pocket clothing designed to hold electronic devices and other stuff.
- Silvert's - disabled clothing for elderly care.
- Special Clothes for Special Kids - new to on-line sales, but good quality.
- USA Jeans - pants and jeans design for sitting.
- Vulpine Outerwear - specializing in easy-to-wear gloves and boots.
Dressing Aids
Wheelchair Gloves
Carrying, Attaching, Holding and Mounting
- A Book Above - affordable swing-arm over-head book-holder for reading.
- BXL - full and half trays.
- Clever Solutions - wheelchair accessories.
- Casbar - an easy-on, easy-off metal bar that spans the handles of a wheelchair to make it easier to push and handle.
- Daessy Mounts - a range of swing-away products for attaching AAC devices to wheelchairs.
- D. J. Technical Sales - The Communication Station.
- Diestco Manufacturing - wheelchair, walker & scooter bags, trays, canopies, desk arms.
- Disability Gear - accessories for wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and more.
- Grover Gear - backpacker wheelchair trailer and other wheelchair accessories.
- Kinsman Enterprises, Inc. - wheelchair accessories.
- Lapshopper - wheelchair attachment you can attach your store basket.
- MADDAK- aids for independent living.
- Product Design Group (PDG) - Scotty laptop tray system.
- Roberts Book Holder - holds any size book and allows the user to turn pages easily.
- S1™ "Safety First", LLC - ergonomically designed, durable, and safe clear bags and backpacks.
- Therafin Corporation - trays and mounting systems.
- WheelSource - carrying solutions for wheelchairs and scooters. Makers of Advantage Bags.
- 1-800-wheelchair.com - click on "accessories" for bags, trays, etc.
Eating and Drinking
Insulin Injection
- Maxi Aids - talking and large display blood glucose meters and adaptation for loading syringes.
- Lighthouse - click on "products" for the catalog. See diabetic supplies.
- LS & S Group, Inc. - talking and large display blood glucose meters and devices for loading and injecting syringes.
Cooking, Laundry and Home Maintenance
Electronic Aids to Daily Living (EADL) or Environmental Control Units ( ECUs)
Work Surfaces
Standers
Walkers
Exercise Products
- Accessible Designs, Inc. - fitness equipment.
- Accessible Power Trainer
- Allegro Medical Supplies Inc. - click on "exercise/fitness."
- Aquatic Exercise Association - selection of unique aquatic videos, audiocassettes, and fitness accessories.
- Bedersizer - total body workout using "total flex."
- Equal Access Fitness Products
- Exercise Equipment - at SportAid, Inc.
- Exercise Equipment for People with Quadriplegia
- Ex n' Flex - passive or active lower extremity exercise.
- HeartFlex - exercise equipment improve upper-body fitness and maintain flexibility.
- HydroTone - a supplier of specially designed and patented aquatic exercise and therapy equipment that amplifies the natural resistance of water to enhance exercise and therapy programs.
- ActiveForever - click on "exercise and therapy."
- In Home Products, Inc. - exercise machine for paralyzed and non-mobile limbs.
- Innovative Medical Inc. - exercise equipment for paras, quads or anyone who wants a complete workout.
- Med-Fit Systems - fitness and aquatic products.
- NuStep - exercise equipment for low-impact total body workout.
- Progym Cross Trainer and Pedal Exerciser- at Flaghouse.
- Pro Therapy Supplies - physical therapy & rehabilitation products, including pilates, balance boards, foam rollers, stability balls and more.
- Remote Ability - exercise equipment.
- Sammons Preston - look in "Living Fit."
- Saratoga Cycle - at Saratoga Access & Fitness.
- SportAid/MedAid - wheelchair catalog.
- StiMaster - at ElectroLogic, Inc.
- Therapeutic Alliances Inc. - electrotherapy and rehabilitation equipment.
- Therapy Machine
- Unique Sport Training Systems - Wheelchair Workout turns a wheelchair into a multigym.
- Uppertone - at GPK, Inc.
- WestCanProducts.com - click on "therapy & exercise."
Automobile Driving Products
Recreation Products
- Accessible structures - recreational wheelchair and accessories.
- Adaptive Aquatics - adaptive waterskiing equipment.
- Assistive Technology, Inc. - furniture grade PVC beach wheelchairs and strollers.
- Access to Recreation - bowling, card games, exercisers, fishing, gloves and cuffs, handcycles, pool lifts, swimming, portable ramps and more!
- Accessible Gardening tools from Peta-UK.
- See WheelchairNet's links for Accessible playground equipment manufacturers.
- Care4U - recreation products.
- Columbia Medical - Rickshaw Rehab Exerciser.
- EasierGolfing - golf accessories and products.
- EnablingTools - adaptive gardening tools.
- Freedom Concepts - manufacturers of therapeutic bikes for people with special needs.
- Freedom Ryder - a hand cycle you steer by leaning with your body.
- Fun-Attic - unique outdoor games, sporting goods, and toys for active play and participation that work for wheelchair-riders.
- Golf Development & Equipment Ireland Ltd - for players with a knee, hip or back problem, disabled players and is also of benefit to able bodied players by reducing fatigue.
- Grover Gear - working/hunting harness, crossbows, backpacker, etc.
- Handcycle buyers guide - comparisons of handcycle products.
- Hasseltine Flyers - protective travel cases for wheelchairs.
- i can garden.com - a site with many resources related to gardening.
- Kalamazoo Grill Company - makes a stainless steel accessible height gas grill. Look for the "Enabled Series."
- Life-Essentials - specialized lifts for horses, boats, private airplanes, etc.
- Lightfoot Cycles - adaptive bicycles, tricycles and arm-powered cycles.
- Mobility Engineering - hand-crank bicycle, SnowPod (snowmobile tracks), canoe seat, etc.
- New England Medical System - recreation products.
- QuadCommander - a video game joystick designed for persons with quadriplegia.
- Rehab Med Technologies - pool lifts.
- SportAid/MedAid - wheelchair catalog.
- Tiralo - floating beach chair on wheels.
- TitaniumArts - offroad handcycles, custom made titanium rings, highly detailed bicycle art, etc.
- The Patio Garden - wheelchair friendly container gardening.
- Uprightgolf - golf stick, putting pack, and backtee poster.
- See WheelchairNet's links to Park Products: Picnic Tables, Fire Rings & benches.
- See WheelchairNet's links to Sports and Recreation Wheeled Mobility products.
Other Product Location Resources
Pre-owned Equipment/Recycled Equipment/Equipment Exchanges
- ABLEDATA - Links to Sites with advertisements for used Assistive Technology Products.
- Disabled Dealer - a national network of regional franchises in the United States that sell pre-owned as well as new equipment: homes, RV's, wheelchairs, scooters, vans, lifts and more.
- Disable Hotline - on Delphi. Lots of 800 numbers to search on "disabled hotline".
- The Disability Equipment Register - a resource in the UK for locating used equipment.
- e-bay - go the online auction and search on "wheelchair." You will get everything from a "Barbie in a wheelchair" to a real wheelchair and accessories. It is definitely a "buyer-beware situation" but many used wheelchairs are advertised there.
- Florida Assistive Technology Recycling/Matching Program
- Mobility Auction - sell used medical equipments.
- NEAT Marketplace - the New England Assistive Technology Marketplace has an equipment restoration center.
- Recycled Equipment Exchange Project (REEP) - a project of the Pennsylvania Initiative on Assistive Technology.
- Silver Cross - information on how to find recycled and new stair lifts, ceiling lifts, scooters etc.
- Wheels for the World, a project of Joni and Friends, that refurbishes wheelchairs and ships them overseas with parts, technician, and seating therapist to ensure they fit.
- Wheels for Humanity - an organization that collects used wheelchairs, restores and distributes them in partnership with other relief and development agencie in places where wheelchairs are unattainable luxuries.
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Last Updated: 3-2-2006
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