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This Resource Directory offers polio survivors in Pima County, Arizona a listing of professionals who provide an array of quality services intended to enhance or improve the quality of life of polio survivors and/or their family members.
Community Information and Referral Services
Directory of Aging and Disability Resources in Pima County, Arizona
Interfaith Community Services - Tucson
Ability Center - The Ability Center features the most innovative and best name-brand products, helping the physically challenged elevate their quality of life through increased mobility.
DIRECT - Center for Independence
New Mobility Magazine The magazine for active wheelchair users.
Pima Council On Aging (PCOA)
Ride-Away Handicap Equipment Corporation
America's largest provider of modified vehicles and adaptive equipment
for people with disabilities, offers in-house financing options, cash
for all trades and stocks over 400 new and pre-owned adaptive vans
throughout their East Coast locations.
Special Living Magazine - Better and easier living for mobility-challenged individuals.
Scoot-Around - Wheelchair rentals for cruise, vacation, convention and business travel.
Wheelchair-Accessible Van Rentals - Wheelchair accessible van rental, available at every major airport and metropolitan city within the US.
Links:
International Post Polio Support Organization
MedlinePlus - Polio & Post Polio Syndrome
National Odd Shoe Exchange - NATIONAL ODD SHOE EXCHANGE is a resource for new, quality single shoes and pairs of significantly different sizes.
NINDS - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Odd Shoe Finder - Welcome to Oddshoefinder.com, a free site that connects people with odd shoes with people who need odd shoes!
One Shoe Two Shoe - Buy just one shoe, or a pair with different sizes.
PPASS - Post Polio Awareness Support Society of British Columbia, Canada
Polio Echo Support Group - Phoenix
Polio Survivors & Associates - A Rotary Action Group
PolioToday.org- is published by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. This website is designed to raise the awareness of post-polio syndrome and to be a resource for polio survivors. Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine, founded the Salk Institute in 1960.
Poliomyelitis - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Post-Polio Health International
Whatever Happened to Polio? - A Historical Perspective
Helpful Downloads:
Post Polio 101.pdf -- Adobe Acrobat Version
Access To Medical Care For Individuals With Mobility Disabilities.pdf
Describes access requirements to medical care facilities under ADA.
If you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program, you can download it at: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/