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Mobility Equipment And Homecare

According to figures released by the NHS in March 2009, there has been a 5 percent increase in homecare. 4.1 million hours of care were provided to 328,600 households, for an average of 12.4 contact hours per household. Furthermore, a majority of these households receiving homecare include the elderly and the disabled. Continue reading

A Brief History Of Electric Wheelchairs

The electric wheelchair was discovered by the greatest Canadian inventor of all time, George Johann Klein in the 1950s. The electric powered wheelchair came as a great aid to quadriplegics whereas normal wheelchairs were useful only to paraplegics. This instrument was the result of Dr. Klein’s work with a lot of medical specialists, patients, scientists and engineers. Continue reading