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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...

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...

Stairlift FAQs We find that there are many ways that individuals refer to chairs that remove the worry regarding an individual who chooses to age in place, or who lives with disability, going up and down stairs safely. That’s why we refer to such...

How To Empower Individuals Living With Disability As we shared in this recent blog post, disability comes in many forms and can be physical or developmental (intellectual). Regardless of the nature of the disability that someone lives with, at...

We’re using this post to create awareness of, and give a shout-out to, the local treasures we have here in the Greater Boston area, Central/Western MA, CT, and RI in the VA Boston Healthcare System, VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare...

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...

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...

6 Types of Essential Durable Medical Equipment (DME) for Seniors As you age, your physical capabilities change. You don’t have the same coordination and balance that you used to. Common home areas, such as stairs and bathtubs, create challenges...

6 Services Every Group Home Should Provide for Adults with Developmental Disabilities Group homes are not just places to warehouse adults with developmental disabilities who cannot completely care for themselves or be cared for by family or loved...

5 Types of Home Medical Equipment for Aging in Place More and more seniors are choosing to remain in their homes as they age. Here are five things every senior, who plans to age in place, should have. 1. Accessible Bath and Shower Options As...

5 Things to Know About Staircase Lift Chairs Thanks to medical and technological innovations, people are living longer and fuller lives. However, as seniors age, their mobility may become limited. This can be due to orthopedic replacements, hip...

Why You Should Prepare for Aging in Place Now There is a famous fable about an ant and a grasshopper. One spends the summer months frolicking while the other prepares for the winter ahead. As a result, during the long months of winter, the ant has...

Why Disability Rights Is Everyone’s Business It will come as absolutely no surprise to any readers of this blog that we’re passionate about disability rights. Ensuring that everyone has equal access to educational, professional, and recreational...

What to Look for in a Community-Based Services Day Program for Disabled Adults Community-based day programs are a great way to provide your disabled loved ones with enrichment experiences, build job skills, and learn independence. What are some of...

What Are Some of the Common Developmental Disability Services Provided for Children? Most children who have common developmental disabilities have many medical needs that must be addressed, but in order to assure a decent quality of life and a...

Visiting Mom Reveals Need for Staircase Lift Chair “So I know I don’t get home to see Mom as often as I should, all right?” Andrew said. “My brother David is there with her, I assume everything is okay. But we went down over Christmas to see her...

Using Staircase Lift Chairs To Access Basement & Garage “John absolutely loves the Bruno® staircase lift chair we have to go upstairs,” Debbie said. The Massachusetts couple is determined to live out their retirement in the home they’ve always...

Types of Durable Medical Equipment (DME) You Should Have in Your Group Home A good group home should ensure accessibility to all residents. This means having the proper durable medical equipment (DME) available to allow all users to live as...

Staircase Lift Chairs for the Elegant Boston Home “My Mother is…well. She’s my Mother, and I love her, but she is not very flexible about some things, and one of those things is the appearance of her home,” Cody said. “Everything has to be perfect...

Qualities to Look for When Selecting a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Company for a Group Home Group homes are unlike single-family residences with one disabled individual because these buildings require a lot more durable medical equipment (DME). Finding...

Providing mobility for seniors and persons with disabilities Lift & Care Systems of Lakeville, MA launches a Stair Lift Division, dedicated to enabling persons with restricted mobility the freedom to use their entire home. DATELINE: NOVEMBER, 2006;...

Outdoor Staircase Lift Chairs Make Fun Accessible For All Bowling, dancing, card games, and art classes are among the events that many Massachusetts seniors enjoy on a daily basis. These activities are important because they give seniors a chance to...

Need To Save Your Spoons? Staircase Lift Chairs Help “Living with a chronic illness means you’re constantly aware of how much energy and strength you have and how much you need to do,” says Marianne. The mother of three has Lupus, an immune system...

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...

Let’s Talk Staircase Lift Chair Installation As an authorized Bruno staircase lift chair dealer, we get lots of questions about staircase lift chair installation. While people almost immediately understand how having a stair lift installed makes life...

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...

I Identify As Relentlessly Independent “There are people who accept offers of help with grace and gratitude,” Adam said. “I am not one of those people.” Complications from diabetes resulted in Adam needing to have his right leg amputated above the...

Hurricane Matthew Reminds Us of the Value of Back-Up Batteries for Staircase Lift Chairs As of this morning, Hurricane Matthew has made landfall in Florida. The giant storm is expected to impact people who live in Georgia and South Carolina as...

Essential Durable Medical Equipment (DME) for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) manifest differently for every individual afflicted with them. This makes it difficult to predict the path to recovery, how long...

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Every Day Program Should Have in Place A good day program should provide stimulating activities for individuals, but also provide accessibility and safety for all participants. This means having the proper durable...

Do You Need A Staircase Lift Chair? “I have a little knee pain,” Gordon said. “It’s not a lot, just a twinge here and there. It’s worse when it rains, or when it’s cold – winter here in Rhode Island can get chilly, and I’ll tell you the truth,...

The Benefits of an Annual Inspection Program for Group Homes, Day Programs & Care Centers Durable medical equipment (DME) such as ceiling lift systems and other patient transfer devices, pool lifts, chair lifts for stairs and platform lifts for...