All Entries in the "Praise and Scorn" Category
United Spinal Bites Into NYC MTA
NYC Metro Transportation Authority just doesn’t get it. Complying with accessibility laws is not something you do only when you feel like it.
There’s No Place Like Homecare
Homecare provides cost-effective comfort for eight million seniors and people with disabilities who depend on home medical equipment and services like oxygen therapy, power wheelchairs, hospital beds and diabetic supplies.
It represents the smallest slice of the Medicare budget – and homecare holds down Medicare costs better than other healthcare segments.
We Can Save Nassau County NY Able Ride
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is threatening to discontinue its operation of Long Island Bus and Able Ride in Nassau County, NY.
Able Ride is an ADA mandated paratransit service for people with disabilities who are unable to use public transportation.
Able Ride is much more than a bus line. For people with disabilities it is a lifeline to vital community services.
Read how you can help stop this.
Staying Cool With Personal Cooling Devices
Being cool isn’t always about keeping up with the latest trends, being with it, or like our frosty friend here, doing your own thing.
For some people with disabilities staying cool is a medical necessity. For instance, it has been proven that people with Mutliple Sclerosis can be very adversely affected by heat.
Top 20 Most Livable U.S. Cities for Wheelchair Users
A recent livability rating by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Denver and Chicago are some of America’s Top 20 most livable cities for people living with paralysis, rated by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The Reeve Foundation commissioned the list in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). [...]
Locals Take Wrench In Hand To Keep Wheelchairs Rolling
How cool is this? Volunteers in Ithaca, NY started a project that fixes damaged wheelchairs and puts them back into circulation.
How Sad Are Wheelchair Services 2
The great wheeled liberator, the wheelchair, can just as easily become a jailer when lack of repairs and prolonged repair waiting times exist. This situation seems to be a common one, especially for those wheelchair users who depend on third party funders such as insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid.
