When it comes to household mobility aids, everything is a welcome addition if its easy to use and makes daily living within your own home easier and allows you to get on with as much as possible.

When seated and standing up there can sometimes be objects within your eyes view but just slightly beyond arms length and extending out your arm to reach something or having to get up to take a few steps to then lower yourself down to pick up something may cause you more problems than you feel is neccessary.

This is where a reacher can come in very handy, they are lightweight with a handle on one end and a clamping action on the other end, with a light squeeze of a trigger near the handle it allows you to grasp hold of anything that you can manage with the clamp action so that you can reach things easily and often saving you from having to get up out of a seat or having to bend down if you’re standing up.

A reacher can often pick up something as small as a paper clip too so it really does come in useful in saving you from movements that you may feel are more effort than they are worth.

Some have magnets too for picking up metal objects and with all reachers the emphasis is on simplicity, they dont complicate anything and serve the purpose that they are built for.

A reacher wont set you back much either, you can usually find them priced at around £10 and even cheaper.

A handy mobility aid to have near you at home.

Within the home its wonderful the many changes and additions that can be added to aid a person with mobility needs, from stair lifts to showering and bathing facilities, beds, chairs and kitchen aids to make daily living within a persons own home easier.

Another addition that can be added to many homes is a wheelchair lift, a house doesn’t have to be especially big to accommodate one, naturally there has to be significant modifications made, allowing for a passage through from the ground floor ceiling to the next floor up.

The change and improvement that it can bring for the user very much makes it worth the investment, the user can stay seated in a wheelchair and operate the lift easily and with no fuss, making getting upstairs and downstairs so much easier and convenient.

Not all homes will lend themselves to the installation of a wheelchair lift because of the layout of some houses and although some could allow for one to be installed it may not provide enough improvement to the users movements around the home to justify the modifications needed to install one.

They’re designed to take up the least amount of space possible while still being easily accessible enough and operate quietly too, and will still leave the household having full use of living space.

The great thing about wheelchair lifts is that they have been designed well, taking everything into account, from primarily making it easier for the user to move between floors, to the lift itself taking up minimal space and being easy to use and very importantly having various safety features in place making for an all round very useful mobility aid within the home.

For individuals that prefer the use of a shower but still need the support of seating and at the same time dont want to use a shower seat, they may find a shower stool to be exactly what they need.

These stools are made specifically for use in the shower and may be more suitable for some people and provide a little more flexibility for the user as not all users require a back support as part of the seating that they use in a shower.

Shower stools are usually adjustable so that you can be seated at a height that is most suitable for you, and they are easily cleaned.

They are usually capable of supporting a substantial amount of body weight and when you purchase one it will usually have information regarding the maximum user weight that it can support.

Make your shower time easier and more comfortable with a shower stool.