If you’re someone with limited mobility, a disability, or an infirmity due to aging or an accident, then you need to be looking at the different models of life recliners. A chair with a built-in lift capacity could make all the difference in your health, happiness, and the quality of your day-to-day life. One of the best things about purchasing a lift recliner is all of the options that are currently on the market. For instance, if your mobility is only slightly impaired, then you might want to consider buying a two position lift chair. Although the two-position chair doesn’t allow users to recline completely, its internal motors do let them recline at a 45-degree angle, which is just about perfect for someone watching television or reading. The two-position lift recliner isn’t simply limited to those two positions, either. It allows the person sitting there to sit at any position in between. Although this type of lift recliner is more limited in the positions it allows users to assume, it does have the advantage of being more affordable, which is no small consideration for seniors or other people with fixed incomes.

Of course, depending on the health and mobility of the user, the two-position lift recliner may not be the ideal choice for everyone. Luckily for elderly and disabled people, there are also three-position lift recliners available, too. The many different brands of three-position recliners currently on the market allow users to recline further back than the two-position models, though not as far as an infinite position chair, or the utmost expression of the lift recliner, the so-called “Zero Gravity” lift chair. This type of motorized recliner has one disadvantage, if you want to call it that. Most models don’t have separate motors for the back and the ottoman (where you put your feet) so that you can’t have the back of the chair in a reclining position and the ottoman in the down position. The chair back and the ottoman always move in tandem.

Another popular type of recliner for elderly and disabled customers who need an even greater degree of recline, is what are called Infinite Lift chairs. These are equipped with dual motors that let the ottoman and back portions of the chair move independently. When evaluating Infinite Lift chairs, it’s important to find the brand that allows the sitter to achieve the flattest back position possible. Depending on one’s disability and degree of mobility, this can be a real blessing. Lift recliner chairs with Infinite Lift capacity allow the user a great degree of mobility and independence since the sitter can rise or sit down with minimal assistance, or even no assistance at all!

Finally, the ultimate expression of the lift recliner has got to be the brand that provides what is called “Zero Gravity” sitting. What this chair provides, is a recliner that allows the sitter to recline beyond a completely flat position and even point the sitter’s feet upward in an overhead position. This is not only extremely comfortable, it provides definite health benefits, including improving poor circulation in the lower extremities, and also reducing pressure on the lower back. This benefit alone can be a real blessing to the millions of seniors and others who are afflicted with lower back pain. These are great chairs. The main obstacle to purchasing them for some people may be that they are the most expensive type of lift recliner. However, if your health warrants it, you may be able to get some assistance from Medicare to enable you to purchase it. There are many different brands of reclining chair available, so shop carefully and be sure to compare the features that each brand provides.