Resources for Folding Wheelchairs

Folding wheelchairs offer convenience, portability and security for those who need a wheelchair to get around. By offering these to your patients or residents, you can assist your patients with a wider range of needs and feel good offering them the security they need without limiting them to the residential campus.

Foldable wheelchairs come in a large variety of materials, styles and features, including titanium folding wheelchair, folding power wheelchair, lightweight folding wheelchair, and folding manual wheelchair. When determining the right folding wheelchairs for your assisted living or medical rental business, you should:

1. Survey your clients and patients to learn what features and accessories they would find most useful in foldable wheelchairs you would make available to them.

2. Purchase folding wheelchairs meeting your identified specifications from reputable manufacturers and distributors.

3. Look for expansive warranties, solid return policies and flexible financing options when purchasing folding wheelchairs for your operation.

Decide on the features and accessories you want for the foldable wheelchairs

There are many different materials, features and accessories available for foldable wheelchair. This includes titanium (for strength), lightweight (for easier portability by the user) and baskets or bags (for carrying items, such as groceries). The folding wheelchair could be either electric powered or manual, so you might choose to have a couple of each to meet the different needs of your patients.

Purchase folding wheelchairs from reputable, proven manufacturers and distributors

When looking for a reputable company that manufacturers or distributes folding wheelchairs, find a company that has been in business a long time, keeps up with the wheelchair technology and industry and has great references.

Look for solid warranties and return policies and flexible financing options on fold-up wheelchairs

When you find the wheelchair styles and accessories you want, it's time to take a look at the pricing, warranties and policies. You want a company that covers damage, repairs and offers the parts needed for the repair. You also want a test time where if the chair is not going to work for your residents, you can return it. Remember, folding wheelchairs are not cheap, especially if you need more than one, so unless you have equipment start-up money in the bank, you are going to need financing.

• Consider having a representative from the fold-wheelchair manufacturer train your staff and patients on how to properly use and fold the wheelchair.