Help Build Your Dignity Wheelchair

People using the Dignity Wheelchair experience the benefits of this mobility device in different ways.

• for the person with substantial physical abilities they are able to easily adjust their own clothing, release the drop seat, wheel over the stool and toilet on their own thus returning to the workplace, school, classroom, or to daily living in their own home quite independently

• The person with some physical limitations who will need attendant help with the removal of clothing of the backing of the chair over the stool, this attendant in no way would have to lift the user of the Dignity Wheel Chair during this process. This chair reduces the amount of help needed for tolieting for in home situations as well as caregiving facilities.

• For the person with more advanced physical limitations....

A fixed frame manual wheelchair custom built for you.

The Dignity wheelchair boasts a remarkably strong frame design. Testing conducted in nationally recognized facilities has confirmed that the Dignty wheelchair is strong enough to bear the weight of barieatric patients and can withstand the rigors of daily use. The Dignity wheelchair has passed all FDA required saftey testing and is approved for sale in North America.

The unique feature of the Dignity wheelchair is a key-hole shaped portion of the seat that can be activated either by the patient or by a caregiver. The lever, located on the side of the chair, when depressed, causes the key-hole portion to drop down and forward. Once the key-hole is dropped, the patient can back over a toilet of any height (see customization features later in this document) to allow for either a bowel movement and/or urination just as he or she would if seated immediately on the toilet.

When the patient is finished, the chair is rolled forward, away from the toilet, the key- hole portion is raised (using the same lever as lowered it) and the customized seat is returned to its normal seating status.

The key-hole design not only returns a measure of privacy and dignity to the wheel chair bound individual, it removes from the caregiver the burden of lifting the patient from chair to toilet and back.

Lastly, we are sure that this chair is going to prove to be durable and user friendly:

• The chair will come “standard” with five inches of variation in the height. With a simple change of a pin on the front and a relocation of the axle in the back, our chair can be modified for residential and institutional toilet heights.
  

• The chair will be built in widths as needed.
  

• The back push bars allow for two hand positions (front facing or traditional side-grip) as well as the openness required to work in facilities where the plumbing pipe is exposed.

• Standard front leg supports are adjustable (3” variation).
  

• We will use one size bolt/nut and one size screw for all applications on the chair!
  

• Our goal is to make it easy to repair as possible. Extra bolts and nuts and screws are sent with each chair.
  

• Front suspension has been added to allow for use of the chair in less than perfect environments.
  

• The drop seat is key to the chair. With a simple downward push on a levered handle, the dropseat indeed “drops” away before the user backs the chair over the toilet. Once toileting is completed, the wheel chair occupant simply moves out away from the toilet, pushes the soft-handled lever back down into its locked position and then restores their clothing/covering as needed.