Have you ever heard of liftchairs? You know, those recliner chairs that sort of look like the classic lazy boy recliners that your dad always sat on in the living room of the house where you grew up? Well, a lift chair looks and behaves very similarly to those standard recliners, with one very important distinction.

These chairs are complex machines that provide the person using it to have aid during the sitting and standing process. With the touch of a button, the chair will slowly recline from an upright position carrying the occupant down. When the sitter needs to get up, another push of a button slowly lifts them up to the standing position.

Very few people have experience with wheel chair lifts, however. Unless someone in your immediate or extended family had one of these devices installed, you’ve probably not seen them.

In essence, they are contraptions that will allow the user of a wheel chair to roll up onto the horizontal platform, and then be lifted up or lowered down to another level. Many homes have them now days, as well as businesses that need to comply with ADA standards to allow their wheelchair bound visitors and employees equal access to all levels of the building.

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