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 To circulate in a house or an apartment can present many problems for the handicapped people
The cinema and the theatre
In the cultural places like the cinema or the theatre always the same recurring difficulties arise, namely accessibility and the adaptation of the driving building to the handicapped people in wheel chair.
It happens besides that cinemas refuse the entry with the people in armchair under pretext which they are not equipped.
The museums, them, tend to adapt their structures more.
Despite everything, many efforts and improvements are to be realized in this field.
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Sports activities
The handicapped people engine are private many sports activities from their situation, like the foot, the volleyball….
Fortunately, one develops more and more the leisures while making them available to the handicapped people engine as the sail, the basketball, swimming
The access to the house and the various parts
When a motor disability in wheel chair wishes to move into a house, there exist several constraints to be taken into account.
For example, it is necessary that the apartment is at the ground floor of the building, in the contrary case, the elevator must always be functional.
To allow an easy passage, the collective doors will have a minimal width of 90 cm and will not have to exceed a certain weight. It is also necessary to take care of the facility of their handling (position of the handles, weight, adjustment of the door closers), the sliding doors being best adapted.
The grounds must be plane, the embedded door mats and in the event of presence of elevator, the threshold of the stage of this one must be perfectly regulated.
To allow their access, the letter-boxes must be located relatively low. It is the same for the switches, the intercoms and the orders of elevators.
Concerning the windows, their dimension will have to make it possible to give a sight on outside even in sitting position, the handles will have to also be accessible.
In all the parts, it is necessary to leave free a passage of 1,50m allowing a frontal access and ensuring a surface of rotation for the armchair.
To refit the interior of an apartment in order to return it more comfortable and adapted to the living conditions of a motor disability when this one is tenant, it is necessary to have the authorization of the owner.
If a motor disability lives in a house where there are two stages or more, it is impossible for him to reach on the second floor, except if its budget enables him to install an elevator or an armchair assemble-staircase.
When one knows the current difficulties to place oneself, especially in the big cities like Paris, to add constraints as those which one has just seen returns the search for a housing even more difficult.
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 Access to the kitchen
To circulate in a kitchen can present many problems when one is motor disability. That supposes an adapted installation of the wall cupboards, tables, racks, sinks and others.
There too, the choice of the pieces of furniture intended for a handicapped person alive engine in wheel chair is very restricted. Those must take into account accessibility with the filing spaces and prevent that the various equipment is unusable, from their height for example.
Unless having an armchair verticalisator, it is essential to buy a refrigerator and a freezer of small size.
The access to the sink will be possible either laterally or frontally by the installation of not very deep vats allowing the passage of the legs.
It is necessary to arrange the kitchen by installing schemes of work to a suitable height and with free space on the level of the legs. For the low parts, the choice of furniture will go preferably towards the drawers or the sliding doors rather than towards the beating doors whose obstruction obstructs displacements.
The functional character of space kitchen will thus be developed so that its use is possible in sitting position. The purpose of the organization will be to facilitate the advance and to give access to the whole of the equipment and the arrangements.
Access to the bathroom
Dimension, the organization and the choice of the equipment of medical and the water room must allow an easy toilet and without risk. It will be necessary to take into account the specific constraints related to the wheel chair in order to give sanitary access aus facilities.
Access to the toilets
A situation of most banal but of most constraining for motor disability in wheel chair is of going to the toilets. That can take much time according to the installation of the part.
According to the handicap, the access to the basin could be done by side or frontal transfer. In all the cases, the transfer must be possible armchair with the basin while positioning in the vicinity immediate. The access will be more easily made using fixed bars of support if the basin is positioned close to a wall, or hinged bars in the contrary case.
Access to the train
The train one of the current means of transport is the least adapted to the people in armchair. The encountered problems are similar to those posed in the subway or the RER, except the fact that there is no passage to cross to validate the ticket.
On the quay, the assistance of a person to go up and get out of the train is essential (what becomes much more complicated during the rush hours)
Inside the train, displacements are almost unrealizable, space inter-coaches is him also very reduced. As for the toilets, the majority are inaccessible.
Another problem: the station platform of arrival always does not comprise an exit adapted to the armchairs.
In this case the handicapped person is obliged to get information near an agent of the station via the intercom to find a solution, while knowing that there is a possibility of being found in an irregular situation because of the invalid ticket of transport.
Access to the car
For those which wish to move with their own vehicle, the car can be the ideal (lorqu' it is completely adapted to the situation). The essential elements are the automatic box and the power-assisted steering.
With those are added considerable options and which facilitate control: electric panes and rear view mirrors (even de-icing), centralized opening and closing (interior and external), wheel adjustable in height and in-depth. On the models 3 doors: long slides of front seat to facilitate the loading of the wheel chair
Access to the subway and the RER
The subways of recent design have, for the majority, taken into account accessibility. Underground transport, they supposes the presence of elevators in self-service and operating condition, as well as travelators. But these new lines are only too very few.
The old underground lines and the RER are in fact a true martyrdom for the handicapped people engine. First of all, it is difficult to find a station where an elevator is and if one has which it, it is often broken down. Once entered the underground, the counter to buy the tiquets is too high and his interlocutor is not seen when one is in armchair.
Then, as the barriers of validation of the tiquets do not make it possible to the handicapped people engine to pass, it is imperatively necessary to be directed towards an intercom so that the remote door is opened.
Arrived on the quay, space between the edge of the quay and the walk of the train makes that it is necessary to be careful while reaching it.
Even if one manages to travel by a subway as described above, it is possible to be seen making half-turn owing to the fact that the station where one wishes to leave is not equipped (for example if it is an escalator)
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