Hello, I use a Permobil M3 wheelchair and I’m very happy with it. It means that I have back a bit of my freedom. I’m 64 years old and use a wheelchair now for about 5 years. So I know how it is when you can walk and go anywhere whiteout to think “can I go there or can I enter that shop or restaurant “. And it’s normal that you don’t think about those things when you’re not disabled. So I think it is a good idea that Permobil organized this day as seen in the movie. Ladies, why do you react so negative? Of course people don’t know in just one day how it is to be disabled and depending on a wheelchair. Of course that’s not realistic, but it’s a nice start to put yourself in someone else's situation! I know both worlds. When you have a positive attitude everybody wants to help you when you ask. What I mean is, be grateful that Permobil want to let employees experience how it is to go to town in your wheelchair and what kind of challenges you meet. Perhaps it will make the next generation wheelchair’s even more better than the current. And it’s one more valid person that has probably more understanding for wheelchair users!! Permobil 👍🏻 👋🏻👋🏻 a grateful and satisfied wheelchair user 👨🦼(and let it be clear that of course I would rather not need a wheelchair, but that’s life)
I think every manufacture should have their employees spend the day in a chair. It will change the manufacturing marketing other chair in a more positive note.
Hi! I absolutely agree. This holds true for just about any product, no matter the industry/sector. If you don't understand your own product, do you even know what your selling? //Patrik
So true. Drive a F5 by myself. But this is not the way permobil should make PR for customers (or at all). You build good wheelchairs not because you sit just one day in it. You must employ people who uses your chairs, and you should listen to them and your customers. Needing and using a electric wheelchair is not only about going to a museum or have a nice time at the bakery or getting weird looks in public. It is also about the fights with the health insurance, the fear of giving the chair in somebody’s other hands. The fear of having a broken chair and have to wait weeks to getting it fixed (which mean for some, weeks of staying in bed). It’s about not meeting your walking friends because they living on the fifth floor without a lift. It's about not been able to sit anywhere else than in your own chair. Yes, my permobil means to me to be able to get around, to not lay the hole day in my bed, to feel better because I can move the seat. But this is not something somebody can experience by sitting just one day in a chair. No way. Even when you sit a year in a chair you can not understand what it means because you not realy need this chair. You cloud stand up whenever you like. You know that the weird looks at you and the stairs are not something that disabels you really. In case there is a fire and the lift is brooken you can stand up and flee. To really need a wheelchair can nobody understand ecxaped of people who really needs a wheelchair. AND just because we have a disability this isn't any type of superpower. This is one part of me. It is like being blond or having blue eyes. It is not a superpower. Why didn’t you asked Juli about her talent for languages? This is more interesting than having a nice chair!
Hello, Holly and Caroline! We appreciate your criticism and would like to adress it personally. Permobil, in fact, employs several manual and power wheelchair users. Juli, for instance, is a part of our vital user board, and the person writing this message, Patrik (Social Media Manager at Permobil), uses an F3. When we say that one of our core values is user first, we mean that literally! This particular initiative was completely conceived and initiated by Juli, and suggested to Kyra, as they are close friends outside of the Permobil organization! July is very passionate about accessibility in cities - hers in particular! One day she reached out to Kyra with a fun idea to "test" her city and Kyra was onboard, and this fun video is the result! Juli's - and by extension our's - idea was to simply show a day in her life, in terms of city accessibility. We deeply apologize if it comes across as ingenuine or if it offended you or anyone else in any way. //Patrik
I’ve been a wheelchair user for 8 years and I loved this video able bodied people will never truly understand what it’s like but to those who are willing to try and understand it in their own way is really great! I’m not too sure what the problem is here but okay…
Hello, I use a Permobil M3 wheelchair and I’m very happy with it. It means that I have back a bit of my freedom. I’m 64 years old and use a wheelchair now for about 5 years. So I know how it is when you can walk and go anywhere whiteout to think “can I go there or can I enter that shop or restaurant “. And it’s normal that you don’t think about those things when you’re not disabled. So I think it is a good idea that Permobil organized this day as seen in the movie. Ladies, why do you react so negative? Of course people don’t know in just one day how it is to be disabled and depending on a wheelchair. Of course that’s not realistic, but it’s a nice start to put yourself in someone else's situation! I know both worlds. When you have a positive attitude everybody wants to help you when you ask. What I mean is, be grateful that Permobil want to let employees experience how it is to go to town in your wheelchair and what kind of challenges you meet. Perhaps it will make the next generation wheelchair’s even more better than the current. And it’s one more valid person that has probably more understanding for wheelchair users!!
Permobil 👍🏻
👋🏻👋🏻 a grateful and satisfied wheelchair user 👨🦼(and let it be clear that of course I would rather not need a wheelchair, but that’s life)
Hi! Thank you for the kind words! 😊 //Patrik
I think every manufacture should have their employees spend the day in a chair. It will change the manufacturing marketing other chair in a more positive note.
Hi! I absolutely agree. This holds true for just about any product, no matter the industry/sector. If you don't understand your own product, do you even know what your selling? //Patrik
STAAAHP! 🛑🛑🛑 these performative BS stunts aren’t representative of disabled people’s true reality. Just stop!!!
So true. Drive a F5 by myself. But this is not the way permobil should make PR for customers (or at all). You build good wheelchairs not because you sit just one day in it. You must employ people who uses your chairs, and you should listen to them and your customers.
Needing and using a electric wheelchair is not only about going to a museum or have a nice time at the bakery or getting weird looks in public. It is also about the fights with the health insurance, the fear of giving the chair in somebody’s other hands. The fear of having a broken chair and have to wait weeks to getting it fixed (which mean for some, weeks of staying in bed). It’s about not meeting your walking friends because they living on the fifth floor without a lift. It's about not been able to sit anywhere else than in your own chair.
Yes, my permobil means to me to be able to get around, to not lay the hole day in my bed, to feel better because I can move the seat. But this is not something somebody can experience by sitting just one day in a chair. No way. Even when you sit a year in a chair you can not understand what it means because you not realy need this chair. You cloud stand up whenever you like. You know that the weird looks at you and the stairs are not something that disabels you really. In case there is a fire and the lift is brooken you can stand up and flee. To really need a wheelchair can nobody understand ecxaped of people who really needs a wheelchair.
AND just because we have a disability this isn't any type of superpower. This is one part of me. It is like being blond or having blue eyes. It is not a superpower. Why didn’t you asked Juli about her talent for languages? This is more interesting than having a nice chair!
Hello, Holly and Caroline! We appreciate your criticism and would like to adress it personally. Permobil, in fact, employs several manual and power wheelchair users. Juli, for instance, is a part of our vital user board, and the person writing this message, Patrik (Social Media Manager at Permobil), uses an F3. When we say that one of our core values is user first, we mean that literally! This particular initiative was completely conceived and initiated by Juli, and suggested to Kyra, as they are close friends outside of the Permobil organization! July is very passionate about accessibility in cities - hers in particular! One day she reached out to Kyra with a fun idea to "test" her city and Kyra was onboard, and this fun video is the result! Juli's - and by extension our's - idea was to simply show a day in her life, in terms of city accessibility. We deeply apologize if it comes across as ingenuine or if it offended you or anyone else in any way. //Patrik
I’ve been a wheelchair user for 8 years and I loved this video able bodied people will never truly understand what it’s like but to those who are willing to try and understand it in their own way is really great! I’m not too sure what the problem is here but okay…