Your local Center for Independent Living (CIL) Should be made aware of this, or have a list of companies offering discount services. Also the major 5 SCI Rehab Hospitals have discharge planners with lists of service providers to help or assist. Best Wishes In a message dated 4/22/2016 3:15:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
My experience over the past eight years has been that many companies who provide services to quadriplegics provide a low level of service (and typically at a higher price). I think that is because they are small specialized companies who don't have a lot of competition. Severely disabled folks like us have an increased need for services, and a decreased ability to pay for them. There are some companies out there (such as a local landscaping company, in my case) who provide services at a discount or free to the long-term seriously disabled. I used to rake my own leaves, and paint my own house, and change my own oil, and so forth. Now our family has to pay people to do all these things. I keep wondering if there might be a way to create a directory of local companies that will offer service discounts to people with long-term disabilities. Or if there might be a way to identify and advertise local community minded businesses, and subsidize services. For example, I'd like to find restaurants who would give a discount to people in wheelchairs. After all, I can't visit most people in their own homes, and I cannot be as hospitable as I would like to be here at my house, and so local restaurants would be a great place to get together. And I would like to be able to buy discounted restaurant certificates as a way to say thank you to volunteers who come and help with household tasks. If anybody has interest in this sort of thing, or has contacts at a nonprofit which has programs along a similar line, please let me know. Thanks, and take care, Dave Krehbiel
