Solutions

Here you will find an archive of many previous REMAP solutions. These may be pieces of bespoke equipment or adaptations that have been made by REMAP volunteers. To find out more about an item, please click view details.

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A removable tray for a walking frame

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Our client uses his walker with one hand in the middle of the cross bar, rather than the two handles. He reached out to REMAP because he wanted to be able to carry some items around his flat and to... View Details

Leg Supports for Rollz Motion wheelchair

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This client has a Rollz Motion wheelchair and, for medical reasons, needs to have her legs horizontal. However, this wheelchair does not have an option for leg supports to be attached. I obtained some standard leg supports and designed and... View Details

Walking Frame Supporting Platform

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Our client had great difficulty going up his two steps from his hall to his kitchen. To solve this, REMAP has created an overlapping extension platform to the bottom step between the hall and the kitchen in order to accommodate... View Details

One-handed wheelchair lock

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The client wanted a way of securing her wheelchair with a lock that could be operated single-handed. View Details

step and door handle AdAPTIONS

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The request was for an adaptation for a client with motor neuron disease who is unable to raise his hands and has a weak grip, so cannot safely open and close the lever handles on his front door, or reach... View Details

End to end Chair Transfer

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Our client needs to be moved in a chair on wheels between his upstairs bedroom and the ground floor via a through-floor lift with the minimum number of transfers between different chairs. An end to end approach needed to be... View Details

4-wheeled Walker adaptation

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Our client was elderly and frail and had had a stroke which affected her right-hand grip on her 4-wheel walker. She also had hurt her ankle on a protruding brake fixing on the lower tubing of the walker. Her Occupational... View Details

Adapted Doorknob

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The challenge was to make an add-on part that would fix securely to the existing doorknob and allow our client to turn it easily. We decided some sort of winged shape (something like a clockwork toy or clock key) would... View Details

Adaptive Sandals for Tricycle

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The challenge was to adapt the tricycle pedals so that the client's feet could be strapped securely. The adaptive sandals ensure that the client's feet stay in place when being pushed so gets the benefits of the movement, but they... View Details

Device to put on a coat

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Our client suffered from a lack of spinal mobility and has shortened upper arms, so he has difficulty putting a coat on and is unable to get dressed to go out by himself. Some ‘gadget’ was requested to help with... View Details

Coat Dressing Aid

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The client has MND which affects his arms so he has difficulty raising them above waist height. Getting dressed is a problem. He can get into a light coat or cardigan by hanging it on the back of a high-back... View Details

Yale door opener

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The client has a high security night latch with a lever that, due to MS, she can neither turn nor reach from her wheelchair.  She has limited arm movement and grip and only in her left hand.  The door latch... View Details

Unusual gate latch

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A blind client needed a tall stair gate at the top of the stairs.It needed to swing both ways but be easily shut and opened View Details

Front Door Lock Indicator

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Please find a way to show clearly that the front door is locked when inside the house. View Details

Clear Walker Tray

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The client broke a hip 6 months previously, and has resulting Neuropathy in his feet, and uses a wheeled walker. He needs to be able to see his feet in order not to trip. However, he likes to be able... View Details

Travel Ramp

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A family had rented a house close to their son's care home to allow them to celebrate Christmas together. Unfortunately the hall had a 24" (~60cm) restriction on access and the Rea Azalea tilt-in-space wheelchair that he was confined to... View Details

Accessibility Handle for BT 4600 DECT Phone

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Our client had difficulty picking up and maintaining grip on their mobile phone. As a consequence, the phone would often drop to the floor and they were unable to retrieve it from their electric wheelchair. View Details

Accessibility Handle for Alcatel 1066 Mobile Phone

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Our client had difficulty picking up and maintaining grip on their mobile phone. As a consequence the phone would often drop to the floor and they were unable to retrieve it from their electric wheelchair. View Details

Light Switch Adaptation

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The Client had curvature of the spine which meant that they could not operate the light switches in the home without assistance.  The client had the following requirements: A means of operating standard light switches in the living room, bedroom... View Details

Grab Rails for a double amputee

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The Client , a lady, had suffered from Sepsis.  This had caused the loss of both hands and both feet.  The NHS had provided prosthetic legs and a stair lift had been installed in her house to assist in movement... View Details

Wheelchair Turntable

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A man had a stroke and now lived with his daughter in a terraced house and used an attendant propelled wheelchair.  Access/egress was only possible through a side door through a very narrow passage..  There were also significant height differences... View Details

Children’s Indoor Sensory Swing

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My autistic son would often seek out sensory input.He would want to rock & swing but would not want to go outside.My son would not want to wear shoes, socks coats, sunscreen or sometimes  any clothes but  would want to... View Details

Shopping Hoist

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Client had lost the full use of the left side of her body so found it very hard to carry shopping up a short flight of stairs to her flat.  Clambering up was possible but not holding shopping. Stair lift... View Details

Threshold ramps

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The client lives in an upstairs flat and required a wheelchair threshold ramp at the exterior door downstairs.  The ramp has to be removable by the client’s wife so the door can be closed and not interfere with other residents.... View Details