Hotels for people with arthritis
Life is beautiful and good health is the most valuable thing that we have. People with the best of health can do things easily and without any problem. However, people with some diseases or disabilities often find it difficult to do things as easily as all the others.
One such disability is arthritis. It’s the inflammation of joints causing pain. People suffering from arthritis find it hard to move around easily. There are millions of people suffering from it around the world.
However, the good news is that there is help available almost everywhere. People with arthritis can enjoy life just as all of others do. Travelling and staying at a hotel has been something really difficult for people with arthritis over the years. However, there are so many hotels and lodges in the UK and around the world that take care of people with arthritis and provide them with necessary facilities. A couple of examples of such hotels are: Arthritis Care hotels and Lovat Lodge Hotel.
The Arthritis Care charity has done a great job of establishing these Arthritis Care hotels. They run four such hotels and these are in seaside resorts. These hotels have the facility of a wheelchair for its visitors. They are designed in such a way that the visitors – i.e. the people with arthritis – can move around the hotel easily and every part of the hotel should be accessible to them.
The other hotel, Lovat Lodge Hotel also provides similar facilities to its visitors with arthritis. They have wheelchair accessibility to rooms with bathrooms.
Apart from these two chains, there are many other hotels that take care of people with arthritis and provide them the facilities they need. Various organizations run such hotels and they provide comfortable accommodation to people with arthritis. Medical help is also at hand if needed.
Before booking their rooms in a hotel, people with arthritis should make sure they enquire about the facilities that they need from the hotel. At some hotels, there might be limited rooms that have all such facilities for people with arthritis. So the visitors must check with them in advance and make sure they have bookings for the right room. The things they should enquire about should include ceiling hoists that would help them get in and out of bed. Toilets should have pull down bar for their ease and a wheel with grab rails should be available in the shower. A wheelchair should always be at hand nonetheless.
To let the hotel staff provide them with the best service, people with arthritis should let the hotel management know in advance about their mobility problems. They should check with the manager if there are special doors that would allow wheel chair to pass easily. They should also ask if the elevators have the capacity to accommodate wheel chairs and are strong enough to carry the person on the wheelchair and the one attending to them. If the elevator is not strong enough, the person attending to them or the caregiver would have to use stairs while the wheelchair is being carried by the elevator.
People with arthritis should also inform the travel operators about their mobility problems. This is necessary so they don’t face any inconvenience using the transportation provided to them.
Hotels offering a stay to people with arthritis should also make sure the right kind of diet menu is available to these guests along with medical help if needed. People travelling with these guests, i.e. their caregivers, should also be able to stay close to them and have things they need for themselves.
There are also some holiday camps that provide facilities to people with arthritis. At such camps, there is comfortable accommodation with spacious areas like step-free showers etc. They also have wheelchairs available for their guests.
There could be situations when people with arthritis need to stay at a guest house. As guest houses are not specially built facilities, they should enquire about the facilities they need being available there. For example, if they can move around in a wheelchair, or the bathrooms can accommodate wheel chairs.
With a little effort of asking about these facilities in advance, people with arthritis can stay comfortable during traveling and during their stay and they can enjoy the trip just like anyone can.