You've probably seen or heard of wheelchair platform lifts that get wheelchair bound people in and out of vehicles but did you know that wheelchair platform lifts have other uses as well? You can use a wheelchair platform lift to raise yourself or raise your loved one to any height you need to go.

Just like a forklift lifts crates to a higher level, the vertical wheelchair lift works the same way. The lift has a platform that the person rolls their wheelchair onto. Then, with the push of a button or the flip of a lever, the platform is raised and the person can go through their front door, they can get upstairs and they can even reach things on a high shelf. Anyone who requires a wheelchair to get around should employ the use of a vertical wheelchair lift in their home and their car.

Many people take those three little steps that lead up to their front door for granted. They just hop up them and get into the house with little thought. A person confined to a wheelchair, however, finds that little bit of space very difficult to maneuver over.

Well, now you can with the use of a vertical wheelchair lift. Having one of these devices in your home will make it as though you never were wheelchair bound and it truly defies gravity. If nothing else, it will make your life much, much easier.

Inside the home, there are even more uses for the home wheelchair lift. For one, you can rig it so that it will get you up and down stairs so that you don't have to have anyone help you. Again, you just roll onto the platform and up you go. A setup like that will be quite expensive to set up but it will be very convenient once it's done.

You can even use your home wheelchair lift to reach high places that you normally wouldn't be able to get to. You can reach the highest shelf in your house, you can clean the cobwebs off the ceiling and you can even reach hard to get windows just to see the world from a view you're not used to. The uses for the home wheelchair lift are too numerous to mention but it will make your home life much easier if you are indeed wheelchair bound.

When you get a vehicle wheelchair lift put in, you have to take a seat or two out. This is to make room for the wheelchair as well as the lift itself. The lift is essentially a platform that the wheelchair, whether manual or automatic, rolls onto and then is lifted off from the ground. With robotic arms, the platform is set comfortably inside the vehicle and then the door automatically shuts.

You can often go to the dealership where you bought you vehicle to have them install the vehicle wheelchair lift for you. If your van or vehicle isn't that new, you should still be able to go to a dealer of that particular type of vehicle to get one installed.