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Growing old is a fact of life, and with age, motor faculties diminish. Add to this, diseases like osteoporosis and scoliosis, and the simple act of ascending a flight of stairs becomes difficult, if not impossible. It seems ironic that after spending a lifetime of work to afford a multi-story house, old people will need to stay in rooms at the lower floors away from the best ones. Also, this condition also applies to younger people that had the misfortune of suffering mobility reducing accidents and diseases. Alternatively, these people will need to be transported up by manual means.

Fortunately, there are residential elevators and chairlifts that offer seamless service to these people. Chairlifts are systems that are attaches an ascending and descending chair to the stairwell for use by people that can walk on their own but have trouble climbing up and down stairs. Unlike elevators, the house is spared from major renovations and is therefore a cheaper alternative. However, standard lifts and elevators offer service people with any disability as well as normal people. Some elevators, like the freedom residential elevators, offer 750 to 1000 lbs of lifting force while keeping with the decor motif of the house. These elevators offer seamless vertical mobility to wheelchair dependent people and add to their freedom of movement and ultimately their self-reliance and self-esteem. Also, the fun factor in riding elevators up and down is another incentive to purchase them. The young children, which is the joy of any grandparent, would certainly enjoy these elevators and lifts. Also, these can provide easy up and down movement of relatively heavy burdens like oxygen tanks and other related medical systems to the benefit of the other household members. Thus, these are themselves, methods of care giving, aside from the usual means, and these optimize the self-help capability of the disabled themselves.