New Factor

opens in a brand new windowDiscovering Attendants Has Long gone From Disaster to Disaster

It’s getting more difficult and more difficult to safe non-public care attendants because of a mix of low wages, difficult paintings stipulations and emerging call for. For wheelchair customers who depend on services and products, the results of The us’s caregiver scarcity can also be dire, and even fatal. Advocates say that except we overhaul the techniques that pay caregivers, issues are handiest going to worsen. 

Merchandise

opens in a brand new windowTrying out Abilitease Gripping Aids as a C5-6 Quad

In hopes of discovering merchandise to make lifestyles more uncomplicated, Michael Franz examined out Abilitease Adaptive gripping aids — together with a drink holder, a can opener, wire adapters and extra — which can be designed and 3-d-printed by way of a quad. Except for a couple of kinks, he got here away inspired with the real-world capability of the goods, and stocks his suggestions.

Caption Contest

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Well being

opens in a brand new windowMedical doctors Nonetheless Have No Concept How To Deal with Folks with Disabilities

New analysis confirms what maximum people have already skilled: Clinical apparatus is broadly inaccessible, and docs have little wisdom or willingness to offer disabled sufferers with high quality hospital therapy. Tim Gilmer digs into the explanations — together with a loss of disability-specific coaching and old-fashioned attitudes about incapacity — and talks with professionals about how we will be able to call for higher. 

Bully Pulpit

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After months of clinical problems and accompanying exhaustion, New Mobility editor Ian Ruder not too long ago discovered himself with the power to chill out with a unique for a couple of hours prior to mattress. The easy excitement of playing a excellent guide was once sufficient to remind him that infrequently slightly normalcy is sufficient to stay you transferring ahead.“It would possibly not were the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel I used to be searching for,” he writes, “nevertheless it was once the sunshine I desperately wanted.”

Professional Guidelines

opens in a brand new windowGuidelines for the First Yr of Parenting as a Top-Degree Quadriplegic

Two high-level quads had been fearful about how they’d connect to their babies as a result of they didn’t have the arm power and hand dexterity for plenty of standard parenting duties. However with slightly adaptation, each discovered that closeness and connection got here naturally. We proportion how they’re navigating the primary 12 months — and the goods that helped make parenting slightly extra manageable.