IWO Magazine
Fitting Furniture for People with Disabilties Andrew Morgan
I write from a business point of view but also from Getting involved with mobility furniture came the perspective of somebody with a very personal about by pure chance. Some would call it fate. interest in how arthritis can affect our lives. Whatever the explanation, the minute I walked through the proverbial door, I have never found Some of my earliest memories are of my gran being myself wanting to leave. I have found my calling. You almost completely incapacitated by rheumatoid hear a lot about job satisfaction being rare these days. arthritis. I’m forty now so these memories go back I just say you must be in the wrong job. When you a fair way, but they’ve stuck with me because of find something you’re passionate about, something the cruel pain it caused her. Of course, it isn’t just that you’re good at, it’s a joy to go to work. our grans and grandads that can be affected by this terrible condition. People of any age can have it. That joy comes from making a significant difference in people’s lives. How? Back in 2010, my partner People’s conditions don’t define who are they are. and I set up HWB Mobility, a provider of high quality, There is so much more to a person than the health British-made riser recliners and adjustable beds. problems he or she faces. I have met some amazing people while being in the mobility furniture industry, Right up until the pandemic hit, we would visit people that have skydived at eighty, people that have people in their own homes in South Wales and met the queen, people that continue to work despite the West, highlighting the potential benefits our their ailments, and people that devote themselves to products could give them. all sorts of wonderful charities and causes. Since Coronavirus, we have had a website developed Ninety percent of my work has consisted of my just to bring our products to the mass market. We now being enthralled by my clients’ tales of years gone supply the same high-quality products to people by and of the way things have changed for them over and care homes throughout mainland Britain, and the years. no one sells our products for less. Our website is here: https://hwbmobility.co.uk/. Just because you have arthritis, or any other debilitating condition, doesn’t mean you stop having Of course, it isn’t just people affected by rheumatoid a life. You find ways to adapt. People with arthritis, arthritis that we hear from. There’s a whole host of stroke survivors, people with multiple sclerosis and conditions that our products can help with, from the elderly and frail are still people. More people poor circulation to the more common osteoarthritis, should realize this. edema (build-up of fluid in the body, most common
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