Disability aids

Perhaps an easy way to wade in is a buyers guide. I have come to notice there are speciality companies about that one should expect caters to certain disabled segments, but they also appear to often charge top end or even higher than just top prices. Most or at least many of their speciality products are available on the ‘open market’ once you know what are the best words to search on, at lower or often significantly lower prices from even onshore sources that are not speciality focused. It has been flagged in another topic where @SueW reported sourcing a CPAP machine, as an example, from the USA at half our local cost.

Due to larger markets elsewhere all sorts of disabled and medical hardware products have greater choice as well as cost less and often far less than locally, even after paying GST and shipping. One could reasonably expect disabled people could have more financial challenges than most of us to exacerbate their buying quandaries.

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