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A mobility assisting device is bedside durable medical equipment (DME) designed especially for those who do not have full use of all of their limbs; more specifically, for those who have use of only one arm and one leg on the same side of the body. Such people, hemiplegics, have limited capabilities for performing physical acts and are very dependent upon caregivers, in order to perform their basic activities of daily living. The bedside special needs assistive device makes certain simple tasks easier for hemiplegics to perform, and makes difficult, more complex tasks possible for them to perform on an independent basis. Specifically, it provides a chair construction and three vertical pull-poles designed in a triangle to allow the patient to pass from a bed on one side to the chair and from a wheel chair on the other side to the chair and thus assists its user to shift body position in bed, to rise from a prone to a sitting position on their bed, to transfer back and forth between their bed and the built-in commode, between their bed and their wheelchair, between their wheelchair and the built-in commode, and depending upon the degree of their paralysis and upon the adaptive dressing devices that they have, to perform most if not all of the steps necessary in getting dressed by themselves. A rotatable disk is provided at the base between the poles for receiving the ball of the good foot of the patient to allow swiveling while holding one of the pull poles. One or two wings may be provided on the disk to carry the ineffective foot while the good foot controls the movement thus allowing both clockwise and counter clockwise rotation.
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