Patient Scale for mid-wheel powerchairs?

[BobH]

Can anyone suggest patient scales, available in the US, that has a platform large enough to accommodate mid-wheel powerchairs like the M3?

Scale is for an assisted living facility with patients who can walk and those that use standard wheelchairs and powerchairs. It needs to be "portable" i.e. setup for use and then stored.

Thanks!

[martin007]

What you are looking for is not practical.
Have you thought about something like this?

[shirley_hkg]

Any floor scale would be doable.

Clinic scales are $100--500 all over AliExpress.
Accuracy @±0.1kg.

[shirley_hkg]

[Raro]

It is a bit complicated for Martin's suggestion you need a harness and for Shirley's you have to discount the weight of the chair which in most cases is unknown.

[biscuit]

Your could discount your own weight instead if you know it.

[Burgerman]

You weigh the chair without you in it and write it down.
Then deduct it from the total.
Some (most) scales allow you to enter that chair weight in and save it. So it automatically does that mathematics for you in future.

[Raro]

The weight had to be written on the factory chair, there are many users who cannot get off the chair to weigh it.

[biscuit]

The factory information does not match the reality once there are any modifications.
And an astonishing number of people who cannot get off their chair at all or even move, have modified their chairs a lot.

[shirley_hkg]

We do get off the chair, don't we ?
Weigh the chair then.

[Raro]

That's why I say it's a bit complicated. If you have the scale when you are not using the chair, there is no problem.

For example, I don't have the scale at home, but I do at the doctor's office. I can't get out of the chair there.

[martin007]

What is clear is that life is very complicated...

[Raro]

What is clear is that life is very complicated...

+1

[Burgerman]

That's why I say it's a bit complicated. If you have the scale when you are not using the chair, there is no problem.

For example, I don't have the scale at home, but I do at the doctor's office. I can't get out of the chair there.

Then obviously like me who also cannot get out of the chair you need a scale of some kind at home.

I have 2 ways. I have a scale hanging from my ceiling.
I use a hoist to put me into the chair.
Then I keep the sling on me, raise the seat up high, attach the sling to the ceiling scale and then lower the seat leaving me hanging on the hoist! Then read my weight. Obviously you need a chair that has a lift. Yet another reason to have one.


I also have a roll on roll off scale in my garage, that I already weighed all of my chairs on. So I just deduct their weight from the total.

If you are actually running your life, rather that it running you, then you must get yourself organised! Other people wont do it for you and you cannot rely on other people to do anything. At least properly. Because they care about themselves and not you.


The £140 and very heavy 300KG platform way. Dosent include the ramp, I already had that in the back of my van.

Note that its wireless. The actual thing that you read is propped up on the bottom of that chair. Its just a square platform. Roll on weighing platform! In my kitchen. As you can see this old chair with 2 lead batteries is 113.4KG.

[Burgerman]

But now as explained above (how) I mostly use this. Ebay super cheap.

[ex-Gooserider]

In an assisted living facility, I'd expect them to have a Hoyer lift just to get patients in and out of bed and so on... There are lots of load cells that can be put between the lift and the bar for the sling, and weigh the patient every time you pick them up...

ex-Gooserider

[Burgerman]

In order to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs.

Look at it this way. If you dont plan on getting better sometime soon then whatever methods you use to make your own life better are lifetime investments. Do everything while you are young enough and mentally flexible enough and while time is on your side to make all the changes you need. Make a big integrated plan. And start.

That may involve moving home, getting someplace more suitable on a single ground floor, near easy to get to shops, entertainments, doctors etc.Before wasting money on an unsuitable property. An adapted home with wide doors, open spaces, large kitchen, wetrooms, tiled floors, parking for an adaprted vehicle, or equipment. Like chairs, means of weighing yourself, patient lifts, electric beds, low maintainance gardens and exteriors, air conditioning/heat pumps, automation of everything possible etc. The sooner you get started the faster it gets sorted! Took me 15 years. But got there in the end. Now I am too old and more disabled and wouldnt be able to face the upheaval. Sooner rather than later. You will be pleased you did it it for the rest of your days.