Travel Resource

Airbnb’s New Adapted Category Offers Beautiful Design and Verified Access

Airbnb has debuted a new Adapted homes category that lets you browse a variety of unique homes across the world that have verified step-free access and dedicated accessibility features. Many of the homes are beautiful and fun: There’s a castle in Spain, treehouses in Brazil and Alabama, and a dome house in North Carolina, to name a few. The listings include floor plans and measurements so you can make sure properties work for you.  

Products

Ki Mobility Rogue2: A Lightweight and Highly Adjustable Manual Wheelchair

Ki Mobility has released the Rogue2, a lightweight, customizable manual wheelchair for both new and experienced wheelchair users. The aluminum-frame chair weighs 10.6 pounds and has several features — including adjustable caster housings, indexed rear seat height adjustment and a reclinable backrest — designed to make it simple to dial in your positioning.  

12 Products to Make Every Room in Your House More Accessible

Here’s a collection of the products our Consumer Guide contributors recommend for making your home a little easier to manage. There’s a voice-controlled thermostat, a variety of helpful door-openers, an easy-access bathtub, a side-opening oven and more.  

Pro Tips

A Chef Reinvents Thanksgiving as a Wheelchair User

Take a peek inside the kitchen of Chuck Sansone, a wheelchair user and former corporate chef, as he cooks a mouthwatering and complex array of Thanksgiving dishes for 30 friends and family members. Sansone says you can make delicious meals with less labor by doctoring pre-prepped foods — like frozen vegetables, store-bought sauces and leftovers — and he shares one of his favorite holiday recipes. 

Dreaming Big About Little Spaces

Regan Linton used to dream about living in a stone castle, until the realities of typically boring wheelchair-accessible apartments put a damper on her fun. Then she visited a wheelchair user in Japan with a tiny, whimsical apartment, designed entirely around her needs and priorities. Linton realized it’s not always about the space, or the size, but how you design your world within it.  

---

Support New Mobility Wait! Before you wander off to other parts of the internet, please consider supporting New Mobility. For more than three decades, New Mobility has published groundbreaking content for active wheelchair users. We share practical advice from wheelchair users across the country, review life-changing technology and demand equity in healthcare, travel and all facets of life. But none of this is cheap, easy or profitable. Your support helps us give wheelchair users the resources to build a fulfilling life.