Helping the Handicapped: Step Stick

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

263

Date Released

1981

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Helping the Handicapped: Handicapped Child Seat
2. 2Helping the Handicapped: Fit A Limb
3. 3Helping the Handicapped: Step Stick

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Coping with a physical handicap, whether congenital, or as the result of illness or accident, can be a daunting task. Today’s programme features three people with differing physical problems. With the help of modern technology, they have achieved a new independence and freedom. Peggy Miles suffers from painful swelling and inflammation of the joints - arthritis. Simply getting on a bus or reaching up to a shelf was agonising for her - but not any more. A simple device - a walking stick with a flick-down step, has given Peggy a new independence. She no longer has to rely on help from a stranger.

Keywords

Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries; Disabled persons

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/263

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Fred Goodland

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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