Accessibility in Your Home
Ensuring that your home is accessible for people with disabilities is an important consideration. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it can also make your home more comfortable and functional for everyone who lives there. One of the most important things to consider when it comes to accessibility in your home…
How Do You Get Out Of A Walk In Bathtub?
Walk in bathtubs are an excellent mobility product that allow those with mobility issues to get in and out of their bathtub in a safer manner. Instead of a standard tub with a solid wall, these convenient bathroom installations feature a door that opens and closes for easier tub entry. Given that the bathtub has…
Self-care for Caregivers
Being a caregiver can be many things: Rewarding, fulfilling, gratifying. For most caregivers, being there when a loved one needs you is a core value and something you wish to provide. But it can also be frustrating, exhausting, and stressful. A caregiver is anyone who provides help to another person in need, such as an…
Life After the First Fall
Take the First Fall Seriously Given the fact that one fall doubles the chance of another fall, the best time to take the issue head-on is immediately following that first incident. This may sound straightforward, but it’s a mentally and emotionally stressful time for the senior and family caregivers, and it can be easy to…
Don’t Burden Your Caregiver
Often times caregivers are commended by others for giving up a normal life to take care of their disabled or elderly loved one, but there is actually another narrative not often discussed. While the caregiver is taking time from their own lives to care for someone, that person could end up being ungrateful and burdening…
Disability Safety: Keeping Your Home Secure
Being disabled or elderly can often make it difficult to navigate around your own home. Accessibility and mobility become difficult, and you become prone to more accidents in your bathroom, on the stairs or even at your front door. Besides installing our assistive technology products in your home such as wheelchair lifts, platforms and ramps,…
Know the Signs of Elder Abuse
Finding a caregiver that you can trust to properly care for your loved one can be difficult, but once you do, you can feel your mind be at ease. However, it is much more nerve-wracking to discover that you have been deceived into hiring an abusive caregiver. Cognitive deterioration can often cause elders to behave…
How to Deal with Caregiving Hopelessness
You never really see it coming and then it happens. Your spouse or loved one has a tragic accident and is now physically disabled. You go through the difficulties together of trying to relearn navigating around the house, installing the proper technology and resources in your home for accessibility and even counseling for how they…
Navigating College with a Mobile Disability
College can be a frightening experience for any incoming freshman. However, the prospect of moving away from the safety of your home can be even more intimidating if you suffer from a mobile disability or impairment. Though the experience may be daunting, it’s important that prospective students understand that most college campuses are appropriately equipped…
GPE’s Education Goals In 2020
The Disabilities Education Act clearly states that children with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate education, meaning it should be of no cost to the family and that educational services must be individually designed to meet each child’s unique needs. Yet, children with disabilities are still being excluded from education sector plans…
