You may have seen vehicle wheelchair lifts where a person in a wheelchair can just roll onto a platform and then be lifted up into the car or van with ease. This makes it easier on the person in the wheelchair as well as the driver and it's especially handy during emergency when time is of the essence.

So what would you use something like this for? There are many uses as people bound to wheelchairs cannot climb stairs or get around other obstacles like people who have full use of their legs can. However, a wheelchair platform lift can raise you up to any level higher than the one you're on.

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.

Sure, they can put a ramp there but if you've ever tried to wheel a wheelchair up a ramp, you know how hard it is. And what if the person is elderly and absolutely cannot get up that ramp? This is one time when a home wheelchair lift can come in handy.

There are other uses for a wheelchair platform lift and the lifts as well as the costs for the lifts depend on what style you want and what you'll be using it for. When you want an elaborate system set up, such as a lift for your stairs or the modification of your car, you should always expect to pay more than if you were just going to get a basic lift for your doorstep or something to that effect.

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 get a portable vehicle wheelchair lift that you can use in your vehicle only when you really need it. If you are constantly helping someone, or a few people, in wheelchairs in and out of your vehicle, you should definitely think about installing a vehicle wheelchair lift in your vehicle.