An Airport Wheelchair Needs To Be Convenient For All

For those with mobility issues, the need for an airport wheelchair is even more pressing

. There is no arguing the fact that many of the millions of people passing through airports on a daily basis need some assistance with their mobility. Who, facing a walk through three different terminals at O'Hare, hasn't wished that all the floors were made up of those mobile strips or that they had someone to push them?

The problem is that with the current standard wheelchair model, this growing need is growing harder to meet. Being obese, arthritic, or spraining an ankle the day before a long-booked trip, doesn't stop people from needing to travel quickly from one part of the country or the world to another.

Having chairs that wear out rapidly under the kind of use transport chairs receive, or are stolen because they are designed to be conveniently transported by car and/or their occupant, doesn't eliminate the need of airports to have sufficient airport wheelchairs or the obligation of getting people to the gate on time.

It has only recently been noticed that, while wheelchairs are a boon to those whom need them, more than one type of chair needs to exist. This is not to ignore all the various advances and customizations that have been made to improve the quality of life of those who need them.

But everyone of those chairs, from racing vehicles to ones that can be steered with the breath or that allow the operator to talk by choosing letters through the movement of her eyebrows, are all a single type of chair. They are wheelchairs designed for personal use.

Institutional chairs for short-term transport actually have vastly different needs than those meant to help a person live her daily life as independently as possible. Airport wheelchairs should be designed to facilitate ease of access and use by their operators, who, for safety reasons, are almost never the people riding in them. They also need to take up a minimum of space and be resistant to theft.

Standard wheelchairs are designed to be folded up and put in the back of a car or a trunk so that the user may easily transport it from place to place. An airport wheelchair should not have these features. Even a very cheap wheelchair costs upwards of $100. If only one a day vanishes into thin air at any given locale, the costs add up.

Because of the high theft rate, airport wheelchairs are generally the cheapest available. Unfortunately, this means that those that aren't stolen wear out quite rapidly due to transporting passengers miles and miles every day.

The solution to this is a chair that costs more at the outset, which has features that pay for themselves more quickly than anyone might guess. Imagine a nestable chair. Just like the luggage carriers, not taking up much more space and is easily secured and easily located.

Imagine too that this chair is sturdy and has a number of features that allow for easy transport of the passenger. However, while the nesting allows for conservation of space, it is so constructed that it cannot be folded up and put in a trunk or transported by its occupant. What you are imagining is a chair that can last ten years without being replaced, rather than one, or less.

by: Amy Hart

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