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rae1943TO Asked September 2016

Who can I contact for assistance getting a chair lift or shower downstairs installed and paid for in NC?

I am 73 year old morbidly obese female. I have both Non-operable bone on bone knees. The doctors say I am too high risk. I live in my daughters town house and the bath/shower are upstairs. There is a halff bath downstairs. I also have my bedroom downstairs. I am low income making only $12.000 */- social security a year. I need assistance with paying for a chair lift for stairs or installing a shower in the half bath downstairs. I have to practically crawl or scoot backwards up the stairs. I am getting worse all the time and doubt if I will be able to make it up to the bath in a few months. I have no way of paying for this and I just don't know what to do. Please advise. Thank you.

pamstegma Sep 2016
First you need to know if the townhouse association will allow those kind of modifications. Then your daughter, who owns the townhouse, has to get a home improvement loan to pay for them. She may also have to carry additional liability insurance for having a lift on the premises.

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