Education
Hospital to Home Safely: Live Adapted Show Home Webinars
A Monthly Live Webinar for Hospital Practitioners As a home accessibility solutions provider, we can help create a successful patient discharge with adaptive equipment and barrier-free home modific...
Residential Elevator Cost and 5 Other Factors to Consider
Adding a residential elevator can be a perfect solution, if accessibility in your home is a challenge. As the footprint of residential elevators has decreased over the years, more seniors, elders a...
Safe Patient Handling Equipment – Transfers in the Home
WEBINAR SERIES 1 of 3 Safe Patient Handling Equipment, Transfers in the Home Environments, and Home Modifications Professional Development for Frontline Workers Accessible Systems and Occupational ...
Accessible Systems Designated Essential and is Operating Full Time
With many states, including Colorado, Texas and Utah, under Stay-at-Home orders, Accessible Systems has been designated “Essential” based on the criteria below. We are operating at full strength AN...
Safety is Our Top Priority: See What We are Doing
The impact of one of the coronavirus COVID-19 countermeasures, social isolation, is testing our country and making life exceedingly difficult for people with disabilities and the elderly. We need t...
5 Common Accessibility Fails
Our team is invited into our client’s homes and into our communities to evaluate accessibility. During our evaluations, we often encounter modifications that do not meet ADA requirements, are unsaf...
What Impacts the Cost of My Stairlift?
One of the most common questions our team receives is “How much does a stairlift cost?”. The answer is not a straightforward one. Many factors impact the final cost of a stairlift for your home: Th...
SureHands Ceiling Lift System is 5-Star Genius
Ceiling Lifts system by SureHands uses a wide range of options which can restore independence and increase accessibility throughout your home. These lifts provide customizable solutions that will a...
Home Instead Senior Care of South Denver and Northern Colorado
The South Denver team at Home Instead Our families live and work in South Denver, so we’re invested in our community on a very personal level. And we believe every family in the area deserves ind...
Do You or a Loved One Freeze While Walking?
The U-Step 2 Walking Stabilizer was designed specifically for those with neurological conditions. Using a patented U-shaped base, the U-Step is ultrastable and offers users advanced control, stabil...
Could a ShowerBuddy be the Alternative You’re Looking For?
If moving your loved one in and out of the shower in your home has become difficult, or you are longing to restore your independence by being able to bathe yourself in privacy and comfort the Showe...
Camp Discovery – Redefining Able
Each year they travel across the country, originating from Washington State to Delaware, and locations in between. Their ages span as wide, sometimes with a forty-year gap between oldest and younge...
Bathroom Modifications May Not Be Your Only Option
As you age in your home or need to modify your home to meet the needs of your disability you may be considering remodeling your bathroom. However, one of the most common barriers to doing a full ba...
Asking for Help at Home
It may be difficult to admit, but the tasks around your home or daily living activities may not be as easy as they used to be. Maintaining your independence while accepting your limitations can be ...
Get to Know Colorado Neurological Institute
Neurological conditions are tough. At Colorado Neurological Institute, a non- profit organization, we offer a team of professionals to help patients and family members live well with the chronic ne...
How to Buy an Accessible Home
If you or someone you love has recently become disabled or has been diagnosed with an illness which will change their mobility needs you have probably begun to think about your home. For many, stay...
How Are Life Changing Events Impacting Your Role as a Caregiver?
For me, when my Dad started to act strangely and make some bad decisions, I was confused, and could not tell if he was changing into an irresponsible person or if he had a medical problem. At one p...
Making Your Kitchen Accessible
With more than 30 million Americans relying on wheelchairs to move throughout their lives, the need for accessibility at home continues to grow. Making the entrance to your home accessible and your...
How to Choose the Right Ramp for Your Home
Whether you need a temporary ramp after surgery or are in need of a permanent solution for your home, choosing a ramp can be confusing. There are a number of factors that impact your decision to pu...
7 Tips to Make Your Ramp Fantastic (Zero Step Entry Universal Design)
Zero Step Entry or Accessible Ramps can make your home or building accessible and be a beautiful addition. However, there are many common mistakes and costly errors that you can prevent by readin...
Can You Safely Age in Place?
While many people wish to stay in their homes and age in place, the reality is that this may not be the best or safest option for everyone. A recent study conducted by AARP found that more than 90 ...
Do You Know Which Rehab Has the Longest Tenured Team?
Advanced Health Care of Aurora provides a unique solution to those looking for an alternative to a nursing home. Their beautiful facility offers short-term nursing and rehabilitation after a hospit...
Winter Wheelchair Ramp Safety Tips
With the temperature dipping and the Denver area seeing two light dustings of snow already this fall, many who rely on wheelchair ramps to enter their home have begun to worry about how to stay saf...
Transfers with Ceiling Lifts: Moving from Dangerous to Do Able
Professional Strength Personal Lifting Technology The variety available today in lift systems, slings, controls, and options are changing everyday transfers from a draining obstacle, to a safe, sim...
Granny Pods Could Be The Solution to Nursing Homes
When we are kids, we rely on our parents for everything from food and shelter to emotional support and care. But time doesn’t stop for anyone, and it comes a time when we have to return the favor...
Dressing with Disabilities
Trendy, Fashionable Clothes for People with Disabilities Most people are fairly concerned about their outward appearances. We frequently hear in the home-modification business that they “don’t ...
Medicaid and Home Modifications
What is the difference between Community Centered Boards and Single Entry Points for Colorado Medicaid? For more than four decades, Community Centered Boards (CCBs) have managed and delivered ser...
Used Lift Chairs Denver
Many of our customers look into used lift chairs in Denver, however many find that purchasing new is the best option. There are many reasons to purchase new, especially considering how much lift ...
Keeping Your Home Clean During Construction
How do you keep dust and debris from going into other areas of our home? This is one of the questions we are asked consistently so I snapped a few pictures of our showroom modification to show our ...
Safety in an Accessible Home
Accessible Systems collaborated with Rehab Magazine for this informative article. by Judy O’Rourke A serious injury or the desire to age in place can strain people’s hopes of living safely and ind...