Top Ways to Prevent Handicap Van Theft
Safety Tips
This time of year, your handicap van may not be much of a handicap to criminals, but a tempting target. Like Santa’s sleigh, it will be full of gifts. And if…
Rent a Wheelchair Van When…
Wheelchair Accessible
With a lot of struggle, you can get a folding wheelchair and a person with mobility challenges into the family sedan, but a wheelchair van with a lift or…
Random (But Important) Tips on Your Accessible Van
Wheelchair Accessible
An accessible van is your most important asset when you need to go somewhere. If your handicap van breaks down, you can’t borrow a friend’s van when…
Learn to Snow Ski with Accessible Equipment
Lifestyle and Sports, Living With a Disability
Adaptive skiing has become a popular sport for people with disabilities. Using adaptive equipment, adults, children and veterans with disabilities shush…
Tips on Great Gift Giving for the Holidays
Living With a Disability
What gift can you give to someone with a disability? While grab bars and wheelchair bags make great stocking stuffers, if you want to give something more…
Full-Size Handicap Vans Get a Bad Rap
Wheelchair Accessible
“Handicap” vans have gotten a bad rap. Traditionally viewed as humble wheelchair accessible vehicles for people with disabilities, they now have…
NMEDA Works Hand-in-Hand with Mobility Specialists and You
Wheelchair Accessible
It takes specialists to create wheelchair accessible vehicles for the more than 1 million wheelchair users in the U.S. It would be a nightmare if you had…
Is it Time to Get an Accessible Vehicle?
Wheelchair Accessible
Wrangling that wheelchair into the family sedan may not have been so difficult a year or two ago; but each year we put off switching to a handicapped…
Recently Disabled? Where to Start if You Need an Accessible Vehicle
Wheelchair AccessibleIf you have recently become a person with a disability and want to get behind the wheel again and drive, where do you start? You may need specific equipment to get…
Advanced Driving Controls May Put You in the Driver’s Seat
Drivers With Disabilities
Those with a spinal cord injury, disabilities, limited dexterity or range of motion and other conditions may need more than low-tech or reduced effort hand…