On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 1:40:30 PM UTC-5, bob haller wrote:
On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 1:27:56 PM UTC-5, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Due to neurological issues, descending a staircase is becoming
increasingly problematic for Yours Truly.

Current strategy is going down sideways holding the railing, but a
collapsed knee could defeat that.

If I take a header, seems like the best outcome would be a quick
death... but the most likely outcome would be long term disability.

That being said....

Is anybody familiar with assistive devices to mitigate the risk?

A mini-elevator seems like overkill to me - and also a space-eating
PITA.

Ascending, no problem... worst case a bruised knee or something.

I'm starting to think in terms of some kind of quick-on-quick-off
harness attached to a spool whose speed of unwinding is governed.

You put slip the harness on around the chest, start going down the
stairs, start to take a header, and the inertial brake on the spool
kicks in reducing the header to something more like a straight-down fall
on to one's butt or knees.

Anybody been here?
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Pete Cresswell

safety must come first, get a chairlift..... many are available on craiglist

Chairlift is what I thought of too. IDK if that's what he meant by
a mini-elevator? I know people who have had them installed. Never
heard of any harness/spool kind of thing and
I would think that there would be all kinds of scenarios where people
could still get hurt. Not sure about the part about not needing in
for the ascent either. I can see how one direction would be more difficult
than the other, but still I would think the going up direction must not
be all that safe/secure either. The chairlift takes care of both.