Get 7 easy hacks for a happy home with a disability. Add these clever tricks, tips, and self-care ideas to make your house more disability-friendly.
Learn how to make your home wheelchair accessible. These tips and tricks can help to improve your quality of life and allow you to live independently.
Every home can be made handicap accessible and wheelchair friendly. Learn how with this guide.
More than 56 million people in the U.S. have some type of physical disability, according to the 2010 census. Whether someone needs help in the kitchen and bathroom or more space to maneuver a wheelchair around the house, here are 10 ways to make your home more handicap accessible.
Most cities are utterly unfriendly to people with disabilities – but with almost one billion estimated to be urban-dwellers by 2050, a few cities are undergoing a remarkable shift
From the history of design and its impact on what is considered disability to wide-ranging essay collections, dig into true disability stories.
Gondolas4all has opened up the city to wheelchair users.
Contento, a new restaurant in New York City, was designed both by and for people with disabilities.
Disabled parent and wheelchair user, Molly shares what it's like being a disabled mum with SMA. She has set out to change peoples perceptions and showcase how their lives are not so different from any new mum.
"For me, this film is about telling a different story, or a different perspective of the same story that everyone lives."
Accessible travel tips and advice. This seasoned traveler and wheelchair user shows you how to plan a wheelchair accessible trip yourself.
We asked some of the most prominent and successful wheelers in our community to share wheelchair life hacks that they use to make life easier,
Looking for UK hotels with ceiling track hoists? Look no further than Hotel Brooklyn Manchester, a stunning wheelchair accessible hotel with hoists for disabled guests in Manchester city centre.
A few years before I met my husband, I wrote A LIST. On it, I noted all of the things I was looking for in a partner, namely my forever partner. I folded up the three pages, put them at the back of my journal. Planned to offer the list to the Moon, and see what happened. Real talk, I ended up offering the list to my washing machine first, transferred from my journal to a sweater with pockets. The list then resembled gloop, but I remembered what was on it. On my first date with my husband, I swear, little things on THE LIST. That no one would know. Neither did this first date dude. Because I wanted a second date. These days, he knows about THE LIST. We’ve even added to it, crossed things out, laughed about it. I believe if you write down what you want, the Universe/the Moon will work on it with you. Even if the laundry gets it first. And so, regular readers will know that we are looking for a house and planning to move back to the city. There haven’t been any updates on that because we haven’t found one. I’m frustrated […]
Sportsmobile works with companies that install most all types of lifts. It's best to have the lift installed first and then the Sportsmobile conversion.
Whether you are traveling with someone who requires special assistance or are among one of the first time cruisers on a ship who has a disability, you will find the following information helpful. Disabled friendly cruises make it possible for disabled people to enjoy travel that is both convenient and accessible.
Photographer Sophie Klafter has her mother's light eyes and her father's Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Her work focuses on people with physical limitations.
A Special Month… A friend of mine on Instagram, LeAnne Lavender, messaged me and asked if I knew of any accessible Airbnbs in our area. I usually always have an answer to a question about Airbnb but this stumped me. I did a quick search...
Accessible travel tips and advice. This seasoned traveler and wheelchair user shows you how to plan a wheelchair accessible trip yourself.
Feeling overwhelmed when looking for an accessible hotel? Here are 5 things I look for when booking an accessible hotel as a wheelchair user and what makes me want to book again.
'I’ve found people’s attempts to be kind can be anything from healing to humiliating,' Taussig writes
Accessible travel tips and advice. This seasoned traveler and wheelchair user shows you how to plan a wheelchair accessible trip yourself.
Inaccessibility shouldn’t hold anyone back.
'I am usually extremely stiff in my joints, I pretty much sound like a haunted house with all my creaking bones.'
Universal design doesn't need to be ugly--and, more so, shouldn't be. Done well, it's undifferentiated design for the whole population, for disabled and nondisabled people alike, as Graham Pullin, the author of Design Meets Disability, says in Universal Design 101, which he penned for Dwell's March 2010 kitchen-themed issue. Eight years ago, Italian kitchen company Snaidero adapted this belief and set out to create an attractive kitchen collection called Skyline.
Living with a lower limb disability is an adventure. Everybody appreciates that. But the public understanding of what it's like to live disabled is lacking in a few areas- take it from someone who had to get hit by a train to learn how wrong she was about disability. Here are 11 things that, much like the train, I didn't see coming.
This is a guide about organizing your home when you have a disability. Organizing your home and belongings, with your disability in mind, can make everyday activities easier.
I wonder why I decided to writhe this article about accessible closet design? Maybe it’s because:(A) I’ve watched my able-bodied Father in Law ultimately need a wheelchair. Now my Mother in Law struggles with a walker. I ask myself, “Will these mobility devices be in my future?” (B) I’ve got a dear friend – Rosemarie Rossetti – who 20 years ago was crushed (and her back cracked) when a 3-ton tree fell on her on a summer bike ride through the park with her husband. Now Rosemarie needs to use a wheelchair. This has not stopped her from speaking to groups
With many new products and styles on the market today, you can to design a wheelchair accessible home that is functional and beautiful.
We went glamping with Experience Freedom in Cumbria, Lake District. Here's my Troutbeck Head review of staying in their wheelchair accessible glamping pod with a wetroom.
Architect couple build new home around needs of their eight-year-old wheelchair-using daughter
This list of accessible hotels and resorts highlights many of the best amenities for the disabled traveler in North America and abroad.
Learn how to use a manual wheelchair safely in this guide. From tips and advice on wheelchair transfers to maneuvering as well as general wheelchair use.
There are polarizing views on people with disabilities; there are either viewed as helpless and pitiful or heroic and inspirational. These views lead to microaggressions against the disabled community.
More than 56 million people in the U.S. have some type of physical disability, according to the 2010 census. Whether someone needs help in the kitchen and bathroom or more space to maneuver a wheelchair around the house, here are 10 ways to make your home more handicap accessible.
Meet Lorna Duff-Howie, an American blogger living in Scotland, and of the moms with disabilities who is featured in the Disabled Moms Interview Project!
