Newly disabled in Haiti finding new life difficult
Falling debris and collapsing building have created hundreds and perhaps thousands of disabled people. Many have have lost more than one limb, making it all but impossible to get around a country that never was very disability friendly. With few building standards to begin with, there are no ramps for wheelchairs and mass transit has [...]
Wheelchair controlled by iphone
Dynamic Controls, a company that develops wheelchair control units has incorporated the iphone into the control of the chair. The iphone (or ipod Touch) connects to the wheelchair wirelessly using bluetooth or wifi and allows the user to control all aspects of movement through a graphical user interface. This allows a user to control their [...]
Gov’t plans to get rid of disabled in “emergencies”
State governments are making plans on how to deal with disabled people during emergency situations. New York State has devised a set of triage standards that are to be followed by doctors during times of emergency. Originally public views were to be put into these standards, but that quickly fell by the way side as [...]
Red Cross does not help disabled in South Florida
While in South Florida Spinal Cord Resources had issues with the Red Cross refusing to transfer people in wheelchairs to commodes and to make westcot beds available during emergencies. According to the Department of Justice, anyone who is working for the county during an emergency must follow federal law and this means the ADA. The [...]
Medicare overpays again
A US Inspector General has reported that Medicare overpays almost $1000 on every wheelchair that they rent rather than purchase. The idea behind the Medicare program is that the disabled will have someone to go back to if there is a problem with their chair and that the repairs will be included with their monthly [...]
Barrier Free Initiative
Everyone that is disabled runs into situations where we cannot find a place to park or because of stairs, broken elevator, extra doors or other impediment cannot access a business or public building. Most large companies are getting better about making it easy for the disabled to get into the store by removing all stairs [...]
The deaf community and emergency responders
SCRN has spent a tremendous amount of time trying to get the disabled on the same standing as those with no disabilities. To be honest we did not get very far because most of the folks in power were not disabled and higher management didn’t care what happened as long as bad press wasn’t generated. [...]
Two hospitals decide to upgrade disability accessibility
In an amazing agreement, two Boston hospitals have agreed to make it easier to gain access to the hospitals and would train workers that have been either indifferent or openly hostile to the disabled. They also agreed to remove physical barriers that made it impossible to get into some of the hospital wards or bathrooms [...]
New housing bill in congress needs our help
Under current law, when federal financial assistance is used to create new single family houses or town houses, only 5% are required to meet accessibility standards that allow individuals with physical disabilities to visit or live in these houses. The remaining 95 percent of government-assisted new homes can be built with unnecessary architectural barriers. As [...]
UK patients live in agony so government saves money
While the United States decides whether to allow the government to control medical care, we see yet another potential disaster come from the UK. The drug rationing watchdog has arbitrarily forced doctors to stop giving patients steroids to stop pain in patients where their pain cause is unknown. Drugs such as cortisone have been widely [...]
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