Now that my Mom is in the palliative unit in the hospital, we need to clear our her suite in the AL facility. Are there any suggestions for ways to sell the used (all lightly used) medical/mobility equipment that we purchased for my Mom? Has anyone had success with this?
Items are:
- power hospital bed with really good mattress
- wheelchair
- rollator walker
- 3-position geri chair
- over bed table
If you private paid then can be sold. If you don't really care about the money, donate them to a nursing home.
Definitely check with Medicare first (or the facility from where it was rented). It seems to me that after a certain length of time, some of those become the property of the patient and medicare has more than paid for the purchase price of the item.
I know when I was going to donate a brand new wheelchair that my Dad never used, I decided to first check the receipt that came with the wheelchair. Oh my gosh, Dad was renting this, it isn't his like I had thought. The company where I got the wheelchair did come by the house to pick it up.
Everything is owned.
I am seeing if I have any luck through Facebook, and, if not, I found an agency that facilitates donations of medical equipment to people who need it - http://www.disabilityresources.ca/