HEALTH: Considering installation of a chairlift to access your bedroom upstairs?

Are you considering installing a chairlift?

To keep matters at their most succinct, I will synthesize into ONE PRO and ONE ANTI reasons for getting or not getting a chairlift.

PRO
A chairlift takes care of one major problem easily eliminating the pain associated with that action, getting upstairs to the bedroom floor with an absolute minimum of pain. So every time you need to go upstairs, the chairlift carries out the action without adding to your pain. A great reason to get the lift is if you find the pain of going upstairs unbearable and you absolutely must go up to the bedroom.s

CON
A chairlift takes away the opportunity to do physiotherapy that would benefit you greatly each day, using your legs and strengthening the leg muscles by going up the stairs. If the pain in going upstairs and downstairs is tolerable, you benefit by doing it using your own muscles.

I chose the “CON” as not Plan A. If the pain was intolerable, my Plan B would have been to install a lift. At this time, I have managed to ascend the stairs three times, once a day and each trip will have its appropriate counterpart at the other end of the day.

[ I have received no remuneration for this material which is being published as an informational piece for adults who may be in need of such mechanical assistance.]

Cynda Abel was the agent who did the estimation quote, the assessment and the in home counselling in relation to the stairlift.

If you need an example a soft selling salesperson, Cyndy is your prime candidate. She listens and responds, gently, informatively, each response adding more to what you are wondering about concerning chairlifts.

If there is one thing she pushes, it’s information. She wants you to know about chairlifts and she helps you weigh all the considerations which should be made. She does not push for a sale; she pushes so you are better informed and better prepared to make your decision.

The home assessment and consultation was very worthwhile as the consultant was able to conclude that I am better than she expected. I can move. I can manage the stairs. And most importantly, she also saw the stair climbing as physiotherapy that would benefit me tremendously.

Final decision: no chairlift based on the benefits of doing the stairs on my own. But it is an informed decision based on a lot of information and consultation. Thank you Cyndy Abel.