Showing posts with label Wheelchair access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wheelchair access. Show all posts

Feb 17, 2016

Ambulatory and Wheelchair accessible rides

Accessible Wheelchair Transportation and Ambulatory Rides
People with disabilities or wheelchair users depend upon others for moving around or to attend their medical appointments with doctors. Somehow they’re unable to do it on their own because they don’t have efficient tools or support for their regular care.

But now with non-emergency medical transportation rides, such person becomes independent for performing their regular tasks/activities properly and easily. It seems like a miracle for senior persons and disabled peoples.

Non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) broker provides medical support, ambulatory transportation equipped with medication tools, wheelchair accessible arrangements. For the adaptive approach, NEMT enables air ambulance support services, which helps to transfer the client from one place to other for better convenience of the patient.

Individual, who uses various devices for assistive walking may also, use ambulatory transportation and wheelchair transportation for their assistive benefits. Moreover, you’re free to call such support services, whenever you need. It means choosing hours of operation and day of operation is bound with your need. You can decide about the servicing area or places also. Just make a call before hiring transportation ride, or reserve your ride in advance, by filling up a few requirements.

This transportation service introduces into the United States under “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” for the well-being of senior peoples and persons with lower income level, those exist below than the priority level group.


This legal practice brings a rapid change in the health sector of the United States. Now, non-emergency medical transportation services become the key instrument for the growth of health department of the nation.

Jan 12, 2016

Non-Emergency Transportation: a Senior Care Program


Senior care, simply Eldercare (also known as aged care) means providing the supportive services to the senior people or physically challenged seniors a to fulfill their requirements during every situation and any circumstances. It includes special needs transportation, assisted living, dementia or Alzheimer supportive services, long term support services, etc. Due to aging, senior people detect problems while performing their day-to-day activities. Sometimes these minor problems converted into critical issues due to accidental injuries and falls. Because of the wide variety of elderly care programs, senior care services can’t be limited to any one practice. The form of senior care services varies amongst the various countries and changing rapidly as to making it more effective.

In Traditional situations, senior care services are limited up to the responsibilities of family members and extend to the home. As time passes, technology arrive new methods for delivering assistance to the senior people. Now non-emergency Medical transportation services enabled to deal with such caring and assistance needs (a recommended method under the Patient Protection and Affordable Act). In the Unites States, female caregivers may spend as much as 50% more time providing care than male caregivers.

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services the older population—persons 65 years or older—numbered 39.6 million in 2009. By 2030, there will be about 72.1 million older persons, more than twice their number in 2000, which is expected to grow to be 19% of the population.

Last-year-of-life expenses represent 22% of all medical spending in the United States, 26% of all Medicare spending, 18% of all non-Medicare spending, and 25 percent of all Medicaid spending for the poor.


Thus Non-Emergency Medical Transportation services makes possibility to deliver effective senior care services. It helps to promote independence amongst the aged persons. Promoting independence in self-care can provide older adults with the capability to maintain independence longer and can leave them with a sense of achievement when they complete a task unaided. It is important for caregivers to ensure that measures are put into place to preserve and promote function rather than contribute to a decline in status in an older adult that has physical limitations. Caregivers need to be conscious of actions and behaviors that cause older adults to become dependent on them and need to allow older patients to maintain as much independence as possible.