Adapting Your Baltimore House to the Needs of a Wheelchair

Adapting Your Baltimore House to the Needs of a Wheelchair

As your family changes, your Baltimore house must adapt. This is important not only for the comfort of the family, but also for safety and home security issues. If someone in your home is in a wheelchair, changing the house around to fit his or her needs is extremely important for everyone's sake.

As your children grow, the number of people in your family increases, you get older, or the family gets a pet, your household is changing. Each situation has different needs from the house in order to keep everyone safe and comfortable. The same goes for when someone in the house is handicapped. No matter what type of handicap it is, the house you have been living in will not do. You need to adjust based on the needs of this particular family member. If someone in your family is in a wheelchair, there is no way that they can move around a "normal" house with the ease, convenience, and flexibility that those people out of a wheelchair can. In order to help make their life a little bit easier, try making these changes around the house. It will benefit the home security of everyone.

The first step to redoing the house is installing a ramp at the doorways, especially the door that is used as the main entrance. This way the wheelchair can simply roll up and down the ramp to enter and exit the house.

In the kitchen, everything should be lowered a bit, so the person in the wheelchair can reach. This means putting some glasses and dishware in lower cabinets, as well as pots and pans if they cook. The sink and the stove must be lower so that they can easily reach them without putting themselves in danger. If you have space, you can leave your sink as it is and install a lower sink somewhere else in the kitchen. Making enough room for the wheelchair to easily slide under the kitchen table and even under the counter is also important.

You may need to widen areas of the house, even if this just means rearranging furniture. As long as the wheelchair can properly fit where it needs to go with no problem, it is OK.

In the bathroom, you will definitely need extra space, as a wheelchair would be a tight fit in there. You will also need to install bars on the side of the toilet and in the shower so that the family member can more easily lift himself or herself in and out of the wheelchair. The bathroom is a private space, and the more someone can do in there without the help of others, the better.

In the bedroom a low bed is necessary so that the family member can easily slide between their wheelchair and the bed. A closet with low rods will help them conveniently choose what to wear, as will a low dresser.

The panel to your home security system should be lowered so that it can be reached while sitting in the wheelchair. The handicapped family member should also have access to the wireless remote for the home alarm system so that they can control it without having to get to the main panel.

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