More and more people, including the increasing number of older adults in our society, are living well despite their disabilities because they are using assistive devices and other equipment that has been designed to help them function as independently as possible. These web pages have been developed to help you identify and obtain assistive equipment that might be helpful to you or your relative, or a client with whom you are working.

What Is Meant by "Assistive Equipment?"

 

Finger Lakes Independence Center

 

(We are grateful to the Tompkins County Office for the Aging and the Ithaca College Occupational Therapy Department for their assistance in developing this guide and to the National Association of Home Builders Research Center for funding the development of these web pages and the new Please Try It resource room at FLIC.)