Stairway chair lifts

Just after the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act, stairway chair lifts and wheel chair stair lifts began to be installed in institutions, train stations, airports and companies. Handicap stairway chair lifts as they were called, these devices have the role to facilitate access for handicapped or disabled people in public places. By doing this, people with mobility problems can be better integrated in the society. In the past years the number of handicap stairway chair lifts in public buildings grew rapidly and now more and more people purchase these devices for home use. The two biggest problems of stairway chair lifts remain their price and the space required for installation.

“Handicap stairway chair lifts” is the name that includes all other types of stairway lifts. These devices are widely known to include two main categories: standard stairway chair lifts and wheel chair stairway lifts. The latter is an adaptation of the chair lift for stairs that was designed to help people in wheel chairs rather than people having problems with mounting stairs.

As mentioned before, wheel chair stairway lifts are a costly solution, but nowadays it’s getting easier to purchase such a device. Another product that serves the same purpose is the wheel chair vertical elevator which can be considered the direct competitor of wheel chair stairway lifts. Elevators have the great disadvantage of even bigger prices and an enormous need for space. It is almost impossible to install a wheel chair elevator in residential houses. Knowing this, the odds are again in favor of the wheel chair stairway lift.