Pseudo Stroller

Oh yeah, these are much more recent pieces of adaptive equipment. The frames are more lightweight and the tires are MUCH better.

thanks lynne

Lynne, Don't you think somehow these could have gone to private homes or other nursing homes? You more than anyone here know how much that would help others. Why do you think there left to rot?

Well its a real waste anyway.To bad!

My head feels like it's in a vice

Grifspop, that would be a heart attack.

or a headache...

Does any one know why they left so much stuff to rot away. Some that stuff would probably sell nice on ebay because of the history

Because it simply didn't matter at the time - that's why.

What do you do with something that's no longer being used? Trash it or leave it behind.

Yes, I'm sure some of it would sell quite well on eBay, but things like eBay didn't even exist when some of these places closed, and I doubt the state would have gone for that anyway.

Being a bean-counter, I'd say its a matter of paperwork vs reality.

When these places closed down, they would have had an enormous asset register ... a register full of equipment that was either surplus to requirement, or just not viable to relocate (ie cost to much to ship it to another hospital). It wouldn't have been written off because as far as the financial accounts state, it has a value, and you can't just throw away expensive equipment (whether its going to be used or not). Of course now, its been depreciated past any value so the people who were refusing to let it be trashed dont care about it now anyway, as it was probably written off the ledger years ago... either that or the depreciation rate of a chair is so astronmically low they are still claiming depreciation on it. You might find it has a book value of $27.42, depreciating at a huge .13c per year, in which case that puppy's good for another 211 years!

Thanks for sharing that info, Felyne.

in what lil work ive done with handicapped children this certin wheel chair is one they use to support a child that is fully handicap and cannot hold there own head up some even have straps for he chin to keep the head completely in place!

auction,raise money to help those in need, insted of wasting all that stuff to help others.

Sit down a while in this crazy combo car seat stroller.

looks alot more comfy then the wooden chairs! i'm glad they made the upgrade!!

When I was involved with the closure of an institution for people with developmental disabilities, we were allowed to take the pieces of equipment used by the individuals we were moving to community group homes. So we got their wheelchairs, shower trolleys, and other pieces of positioning/mobility equipment, which helped reduce our start-up costs. Whatever was not being used by the last individuals living in the institution, or what was being used but was not wanted/needed by the community agencies, went to state surplus property and is probably still sitting in a warehouse somewhere 11 years later. The facility itself was turned into a prison, and it made me so angry to see how, on my last few visits there, all the maintenance that had been "deferred" while the disabled lived there was now being done by the Dept. of Corrections, even before the facility was closed for good.

wow that sucks.