Home medical equipment is durable equipment used in the home rather than a clinical facility: walking aids, wheeled seating, bathroom safety seating and rails, mattress surfaces, and patient room furnishings. This department carries 125 Drive Medical and Inspired by Drive products across those categories, in adult, bariatric, and pediatric sizes.
Categories in This Department
Walking aids
Rollators with hand brakes and seats in three-wheel, four-wheel, and convertible rollator-transport-chair formats; folding and wheeled walkers; upright walkers with forearm platforms; knee walkers; and canes and forearm crutches including quad-base and folding models.
Wheeled seating
Standard wheelchairs with large rear handrim wheels for self-propulsion, transport chairs with four small wheels for attendant pushing, travel scooters that separate into sections, and a folding joystick-driven power wheelchair.
Bathroom safety
Shower chairs and benches, transfer benches spanning the tub wall, raised toilet seats including bidet models, clamp-on tub rails, folding commodes, and a powered bath lift.
Mattresses and pressure care
Foam mattresses for homecare bed frames, powered alternating pressure and low air loss mattress systems, an overlay pad system, and gel wheelchair cushions.
Patient room
Tilt-and-recline and three-position medical recliners, a height-adjustable overbed table, and IV and charging hardware.
Pediatric
Posterior walkers in five sizes, a folding pediatric wheelchair, positioning seats sized by body measurement, a school chair, and a pediatric commode.
Bariatric and heavy-duty
Reinforced-frame equipment rated 500 to 700 pounds, including a 26-inch-seat wheelchair, a steel rollator, and bariatric mattress surfaces.
How to Choose Home Medical Equipment
Walking aids are sized by one measurement: stand in everyday shoes, arms relaxed, and measure from the wrist crease to the floor for handle height. Seated equipment is sized by hip width at the widest point plus 1 inch.
Weight capacity: every rated product carries its figure as a numeral on its page. Standard adult equipment in this department runs 250 to 350 pounds; bariatric models run 500 to 700; pediatric sizes carry per-size ratings from 75 pounds up.
Doorways and space: wheeled equipment lists an overall width on each product page. Measure the narrowest doorway on the daily route before choosing anything that rolls through it.
The main decision is the activity being equipped: walking with support, seated mobility, bathing and toileting, or extended time in bed. Each points to a different category above.
Home Medical Equipment FAQs
What counts as home medical equipment?
Durable equipment used in the home over a period of time rather than consumed: walking aids, wheelchairs, bathroom safety seating, hospital-bed mattresses, and patient room furnishings, as distinct from disposable medical supplies.
How do I choose between a walker, a rollator, and a wheelchair?
By how far walking works. A walker is lifted or pushed in steps and stops on its own. A rollator rolls continuously with hand brakes and carries a seat for rests. A wheelchair replaces walking with seated propulsion or attendant pushing.
How is medical equipment sized?
By body measurement, not age. Walking aids use the wrist-crease-to-floor distance for handle height; seated equipment uses hip width plus 1 inch; pediatric products carry per-size charts matching several body measurements at once.
What does a weight capacity rating mean?
The maximum load the frame is built to carry, printed as a numeral on each product page. For seated equipment it covers the full seated weight; for walking aids it covers the downward load through the handgrips and frame.
What is an HCPCS code on a product page?
A standardized code identifying the equipment category in North American healthcare billing systems. Insurers and benefit programs use it to classify a product, and it appears in the specification table where a product carries one.
Does this equipment fold for transport?
Most of it. Rollators, walkers, transport chairs, wheelchairs, commodes, and the pediatric walker all fold without tools, and folded dimensions or frame weights appear in each product's specification table.
