Whether this is your first visit or one of many visits that you make to the mobilityright blog, i hope that you find the information useful and continue to visit often and benefit from your time spent here.

Because the information is provided for people looking for guidance, tips and advice, it is important that you find what you’re looking for and that it continues to be a growing resource of mobility information and is useful for you.

Therefore i would like you to share any thoughts and suggestions that you might have for mobilityright.

Does it have enough information on a particular area of mobility and disabilities, or do you feel that certain areas could be covered better or have not been written about at all yet?

The blog is for you and as i feel that there is always room for improvement, im always open to what people are thinking and i very much welcome you to comment here with any ideas that you have or if you prefer, use the contact form.

Thanks

John

Throughout the UK i imagine that what various people experience with regards to mobility and how easy, difficult, accessible or not things are, like retailers and public services can differ quite a bit.

Seen as London is the capital, i thought it may be a good place to start talking about how a person with disabilities finds living in London or on the outskirts of the city and with their individual mobility needs.

I will cover other cities and towns in future posts, so if you would like to see any discussion regarding mobility and where you live, please do suggest by commenting or sending a quick message through the contact form.

Also this doesn’t only have to be about those living in and around London, you may have visited the city and experienced what it was like to stay in the city as a tourist, how was the accommodation for you if you stayed in a hotel or other accommodation? Maybe travelling created a few challenges or maybe it was a suprising and pleasant experience.

Coming back to those who live in or around the city of London, do you find there are enough retailers of mobility products within a reasonable distance of where you live? Maybe you have recommendations of one or more retailers in your area, if you have experienced a really great service or maybe had disappointments do feel free to let others know.

Do you find shops, public areas and pavements and roads accessible and up to standard so that you are not faced with added difficulties on top of your mobility needs or do you feel that they could be improved in your area?

Please give your input and comment below, remember that this is regarding London and around the outskirts of the city but we can and will discuss other parts of the UK soon too.

With some people only needing the temporary use of a mobility aid it’s handy that there are companies out there that you can hire various mobility products from when you know that you wont need the item on a long term basis and dont want to have to fork out a substantial sum of money.

You can read about some of the benefits of mobility rentals and hire but you also need to know when you should hire and when you should actually invest in the purchase of a mobility product.

If you only need to use a mobility aid for a few days or weeks and the cost overall would be substantially less than actually buying one then it makes sense to just hire what you need the use of.

On a longer term basis it might work out better for you to actually purchase the item but longer term use is not the only reason to purchase because you may only need to use something for a month or so and the cost for hiring for that time could work out to be the same or more if you just purchased the mobility aid.

Sometimes when you see the daily cost of hiring, it doesn’t look very much at all and some people might not bother calculating just how much they will spend over the duration of their rental, but it is actually very important to add up how much the rental of the aid will cost you over the amount of time that you know that you need it for.

Of course at times it may not be possible to know for sure how long you are going to need to use a mobility aid for, you may hire at first in order to test a product out and then invest in actually purchasing later on, and this may be your plan from the start where you know how much you are willing to spend and can prevent yourself from excess cost on rental.

Some people may even hire a mobility aid when they know that the cost would work out the same as an actual purchase over the time that they need to use it for but this may suit them just fine because they might not want the extra work of trying to sell on their unwanted mobility aid once they are finished with it and prefer the ease of being able  to quickly hand back what they hired at the end.

Whatever your needs may be, however long you may need a mobility aid for, do work out the best solution for yourself, taking into consideration the overall cost, whether you might need the use of the aid again in the near future and if it might be best only to hire, or to actually buy the mobility aid from the start.