We have several lift chairs by golden technologies. We lend these chairs to our members so they get pretty hard use. We have been really pleased with how well they have help up, both their padding and their mechanisms. They cost about $900, but seem to be worth it. Beware of the inexpensive ones, the padding tends to break down and the user begins to feel the bars in the seat. This can be very uncomfortable and really makes the chair unusable. I think their website is like <A HREF="www.goldentech.com">www.goldentech.com</A>. Good luck and happy shopping! Meg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn