How to Find a Drinkholder for Your Wheelchair, Scooter, or Walker

If you use a wheelchair, scooter, or walker, you are--by definition--on the go. And if you're on the go, you've got to take your personal stuff along. Don't be without your favorite beverages just because you happen to use a mobility device. You may already know of some methods of carrying your beverage. Some inefficient and even dangerous ways: • Nestling hot coffee between your legs, you wheelchair users? • Balancing a soda can on the footboard, you scooter users? • Carrying a juice bottle with one hand, you walker users? Instead, learn the basics of Freedom Dinnerware's great non-tip cupholders made specially for wheelchairs, scooters, rollators, and walkers.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Special drinkholders made especially for the mobility aid you use
• Desire to improve the convenience of "getting around"
• Willingness to try something new

1. First look at the frame of your mobility device to determine what type drinkholder will ideally fit your needs. Have you ever noticed whether your wheelchair, scooter, or walker has round or square metal tubing for the frame? Either way, it doesn't matter. Non tip cup-holders from Freedom fit on either square or round tubes.
2. Look for drinkholders that are easy to install and remove. Many types of cupholders designed for mobility devices are...well, immobile. They clamp onto the wheelchair, scooter, or walker and stay there forever--or until you cut them off with a welding torch, as it often seems! Freedom's non-tip drinkholders easily clamp on wheelchairs, scooter, and walkers--without screwing into the frame. Want to take it off? It's a snap with Freedom!
3. Identify drinkholders that are foldable so that mobility through doorways will not be impacted. Your mobility device sometimes encounters narrow spaces. Doorways, crowds, hallways...the list goes on. When you have a drinkholder protruding from the side of the frame, that drinkholder is an obstruction. But Freedom's drinkholders fold up within seconds.
4. Make sure your drinkholder won't close "accidentally". One alarming problem with some inferior cupholders is that a slight bump may cause them to close. Freedom's wheelchair, scooter, and walker cup holders cannot accidentally fold, under any circumstances. Internal support legs lock into place, keeping the cupholder securely open. Want to close the folding cup holder? Easy enough to do with just one hand.
5. Identify cupholders that can conform to different sizes of cups or glasses. Not all people are the same. So why do cupholder manufacturers think that all people drink the same sized beverage? Freedom clamping drinkholders scale up or down to accomodate different sized beverages.

Tips & Warnings

• Determine your specific needs before looking for the ideal drinkholder for your mobility device.
• Assess the expertise needed to install different brands of cupholders.
• Try to plan ahead for all the locations in which you will be using your scooter, wheelchair, or walker.