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How To Get Into My House If I'm Disabled For those who find themselves suddenly facing disability that includes mobility challenges -- due to an accident, aging, or a new or progressed illness – figuring how you can access the home you love can...

Are There Funding Resources To Cover The Costs of Making A Home Accessible? Whether this is the first time you are considering making modifications to your/a loved one’s home to make it accessible, or you just need to upgrade the home-in-question’s accessibility,...

Training: An Important Factor That Should Influence Your Medical/Patient Equipment Purchase As a provider of durable medical equipment and patient lift equipment for close to 35 years, we know how important it is that individuals and organizations (like...

Creating Awareness of Brain Injury Awareness Month And Honoring Those Who Live With BI For years, March has been earmarked as the month to honor those living with brain injury. Brain Injury (BI) Awareness Month aims to: Acknowledge and celebrate...

Preventing Falls In Seniors Via Balance Exercises And Fall-Prevention Equipment Research conducted by the team at Lift & Care Systems on topics that are important to seniors – many of whom are “Baby Boomers” (age 62-80) – indicates that they, or...

Plan Now To Ramp Up Your Business’ Accessibility In The New Year In our previous blog post entitled “What Types Of Businesses Need To Be ADA-Compliant And What Does It Mean To Be So,” we shared information about the types of businesses that need to meet...

Questions To Ask An Individual Living With Disability, Or A Caregiver, To Learn More About Their Daily Lives As providers of patient lifts and other durable medical equipment (DME) to individuals living with disability and their families for over...

Common Challenges Faced By Individuals Living With Disability While the number and nature of challenges faced by individuals living with disability varies, based on the disability or health condition, as a patient lift and other durable medical...

Why Purchasing Long-Term Care Insurance Supports Successful Aging-At-Home Plans As we outlined in our previous blog post about aging in place, there are a number of reasons why more and more individuals are choosing to age at home right now. As...

Plan Now To Get More Outdoors Time This Spring and Summer Despite Mobility Challenges For those living with mobility challenges due to a disability, or simply aging, being able to access their outdoors porch, patio, or yard likely feels quite...

Honoring And Supporting Those Living With Cerebral Palsy While everyone challenged by cerebral palsy is not impacted by cognitive, learning, or intellectual challenges because of their illness, cerebral palsy is still classified by disability...

Providing Moments For Children Living With Disability To Just Be Kids Whether they are born with a disability, or develop one post-birth, we think you’ll agree with us that children challenged by disability and chronic illness deserve to have as...

How Our Body Supports Make Our Ceiling Lift Systems Unique Lift & Care Systems is pleased and proud that we’ve been offering high-quality patient lift systems to individuals challenged by disability, and their families/caregivers, for more than 30...

Get Your Questions Answered Quickly About Our Products And Services And Working With Us While our team of patient lift and other durable medical equipment experts are available to assist our existing clients, and prospective customers, via phone...

What Types Of Businesses Need To Be ADA-Compliant And What Does It Mean To Be So? In a recent blog post we talked about our shared goal with the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) – to support those living with disability, and their caregivers,...

Creating Awareness Of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy And Its Impact September Is Duchenne Action Month and September 7, World Duchenne Day While our team of patient lift and other DME experts works with individuals living with a variety of acquired or...

Creating Awareness Of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) And Its Impact August Is SMA Awareness Month While our team of patient lift and other DME experts works with individuals living with a variety of acquired or present-at-birth disabilities and their...

Why Elevator Use In Homes Is On The Rise As we shared in our recent blog post about aging in place, many individuals who are in their 60’s and beyond are choosing to stay in their homes vs. move to an assisted living facility, a 55+ community, or...

Why More Individuals Are Choosing To Age At Home You're probably hearing the phrases "aging at home" and "aging in place" a lot these days. That's because more and more individuals in their 60's and beyond are choosing to stay in the homes they...

Creating Awareness Of Neuropathy And Its Impact May Is Neuropathy Awareness Month While our team of patient lift and other DME experts works with individuals living with a variety of acquired or present-at-birth disabilities and their families to...

Join Us In Creating Awareness Of Parkinson's Disease And Its Impact April is Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month While our team of patient lift and other DME experts works with individuals living with a variety of acquired or present-at-birth...

New Year. New Look, Feel and Opportunities! September 2025 and January 2026 Updates To Below Previously Published Blog Post: While we are no longer offering Bruno Connect home elevators, we can still offer new and existing clients a means of...

A Look Back At 30 Years Of Providing Quality Products and Exceptional Service To Those Living With Disability How And Why We Began Providing Durable Medical Equipment, Including Patient Lifts Our team often gets asked – particularly our Owner and...

Supporting and Creating Awareness Of Those Living With Muscular Dystrophy and Spinal Cord Injury While our team of patient lift and other DME experts works with individuals living with a variety of acquired or present-at-birth disabilities and...

How And Why Disability Is Celebrated June 2026 Update: Disability Pride month is just around-the-corner. Check out this blog post about a disability superstar that we created after we shared the original blog post below. Plus, make July the time you...

Celebrating The 33rd Anniversary of The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Another Important Update 07/07/25 - we can't believe a year has passed since we last celebrated the anniversary of The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). We hope...

New Wheelchair Scales For Group Homes, Day Programs, Schools, and Doctor’s Offices As a provider of durable medical equipment (DME), including patient lifts, which support the improved life quality, independence, and safety of those living with...

Why Work With Us Related To Your Lift and Safety Equipment Needs For 30 years, we’ve been blessed to work with individuals, families, and organizations (such as group homes, school, and equine-assisted service centers) to ensure that those living with...

A Common Mission To Ensure Older Adults Enjoy The Best Possible Life Quality As an organization whose mission it has been for more than 30 years to offer products and services that contribute to older adults enjoying the best life quality possible, we...

Plan Now To Make Your Pool Or Spa Accessible This Summer To All Family Members & Guests 05/08/25 Update: While the information from our original blog post below is still accurate and relevant, we updated this post to include some websites where you can get a...

Why 2023 Should Be The Year You Employ A Ceiling Lift System It’s a new year, and we’re all thinking about how we can work less hard, have more fun, and optimize our health situations in 2023. It’s the belief of the team at Lift & Care Systems that...

Supporting The Independence And Dignity Of The Disabled Whether you or your loved one were born with a disability or acquired it later in life, we here at Lift & Care Systems share your goal for yourself, or for those for whom you care, to lead the...

Celebrating 40 Years Of Improving The Lives Of Those With Reduced Mobility As we shared in mid-May in various social media posts, such as this one, Lift & Care Systems’ President and Founder, Dave Austin, was thrilled to be able to attend the 40th...

Planning For Both Immediate And Long-Term Needs Related to Disability and Aging Whether you’re an individual living with disability, a senior who wants to age in place, or the caregiver of the aforementioned individuals, putting the proper...

In-Home Care In Massachusetts: Free and Low-Cost, Plus Financial Assistance Massachusetts can be a welcoming state for seniors who live on their own and wish to remain independent. Even seniors with limited incomes can thrive in the Bay State with...

Reduce Your Worry About Falls By Putting The Right Alert System In Place The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) states that falls among older adults are extremely common with an estimated 2.5 million older adults treated for fall injuries in...

How The Spoon Theory Has Caused Individuals Living With Disability And Illness To Feel Seen While many individuals living with chronic illness or disability are familiar with and truly appreciate the message and philosophy behind the “spoon...

5 Simple Things You Can Do To Show Caregivers Some Love The fact that Valentine’s Day is just a couple of weeks away prompted us to write this post to remind our readers that caregivers, not just the loved ones they care for, deserve and need...

Simplify Lift Inspection & Maintenance in 2022 With Our Preventative Maintenance Program Whether it’s managing your own health situation or that of a loved one, we know you regularly juggle numerous tasks and priorities. Let us take one of those...

Worry Less In 2022 By Putting These 6 Senior Safety Measures In Place For The New Year 2026 Update: While this blog post was originally posted in 2022, it still rings true with the 2026 new year! And, in addition to the safety measures below, you...

What You Need to Know as a Caregiver of Someone with a Traumatic Brain Injury Caring for someone with a traumatic brain injury presents unique challenges. These challenges can be practical, social, financial, and emotional. Here are five tips to...

Organizations to Turn to for Help for Caretakers of Disabled Individuals If you have recently become the caregiver of a disabled individual, whether through an accident or through the aging of family members, you might be feeling overwhelmed. You...

Massachusetts Caregiver Disability Services Resource Sheet Anyone who has a loved one who has suffered from a disability and is suddenly thrust into the role of a caregiver might be overwhelmed and might not know where to begin looking for help. This...

Long Distance Caregiving: How To Handle the Stress “I don’t know how this happened,” Jessica said. “One day, my husband’s mother was just fine. And then we turned around, and all at once, she’s gotten old. It was like the blink of an eye. She had a...

Involve All Family Members in Care Planning for Best Results “Mom had a stroke in May,” Carole explained. “And she’s so strong that I guess we all thought she’d just bounce right back to being her normal self. But that didn’t happen.” Carole’s...

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Checklist for Caregivers of Disabled Individuals As a caregiver for the disabled, you will often discover that assessing the safety and quality of programs or residences for disabled individuals is, at times,...

Caregivers Get Older Too: Understanding the Sure Hands Lift System “Donna had her accident in 1987,” Morgan said. Her daughter became a quadriplegic after a skiing accident. “Since then, there have been tremendous advances in technology and care...

Tips for Caregivers of Newly Disabled Individuals The need to install a lift system for a handicapped individual can be an emotional time, especially for an individual who suddenly becomes disabled due to an acute health condition or an accident. These...