All Entries in the "General" Category
Clothing For Wheelchair Users
It’s often tough luck for a wheelchair user who is looking for that right fashion and look.
More and more wheelchair users want to be fashionable, sexy, sporty, alluring, formal and casual, all without having to learn to stand. Imagine the nerve!
Check out some of the fashions and find out who is producing them.
Komen NYC Race for Breast Cancer Cure
One out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.
Women with physical disabilities have more barriers to screening, are diagnosed later, and have a higher incidence of mortality from breast cancer.
Together, with the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure we can raise awareness of these barriers, make mammography accessible for all, and help fight breast cancer!
A Wheelchair View Is Captivating
You don’t often run across blogs that can pull you in and captivate you. I ran across A Wheelchair View blog today and it did just that.
I wonderful mix of creative writing and great digital photography, blogger Etha Walters, a writer, photographer,and a wheelchair user, touched something in me that made me feel really good. [...]
Medicaid Primer Explains Basic Components of Medicaid and the Program’s Role in Health Reform
The Kaiser Family Foundation has updated their Medicaid Primer. It’s the best treatment of this very cloudy subject that I have viewed to date. Check it out.
Disc Golf And A Day Of Family Fun In Orlando
Disc Golf and a day of fun in Orlando. For those of you in the Orlando area, here’s a super way to spend a day and help a great cause while you’re having fun. Disc Golf! I’ve never played but it looks like outrageous fun to me. Read up on the event and then watch the video down below to get a feel for the game.
Focused On Standing
We as Americans have elevated standing to almost a patriotic level, or at least raised it to a level beyond that of other positions. For example, there is a very positive inference….
Nippi Wheelchair Accessible Gas Powered Scooter
Not new, but one of the more interesting accessible vehicles around. The Nippi, from Nippi Vehicles is a gas powered motor scooter made in the United Kingdom that can be driven from a wheelchair.
Flashy enough and tricked out nicely, the Nippi has some decent specs that can move a wheelchair and its user [...]
