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Mobility
Check list for people with mobility/medical problems
Assistance
If you or someone in your household uses a wheelchair, make more than one exit from your home wheel chair accessible in case the primary exit is blocked in disaster.
- Teach those who may need to assist you in an emergency how to operate necessary equipment.
- Arrange for a relative or neighbour to check on you in an emergency if you live alone
- Plan and practice how to escape from your home in an emergency.
- Consider getting a medical alert system that would allow you to call for help if you are immobilised in an emergency
Extra equipment
- Extra wheel chair batteries, oxygen, medication, food for guide dogs any other special equipment you might need.
- A list of the model and serial numbers of medical devices such as pacemakers etc.
- List of your medication.
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