Beekeeping for disabled people

This paper details what steps have been taken in Slovenia to assist people with disabilities to keep bees.
Its fantastic Beekeeping with disabilities

What do you think about this hive?

https://permies.com/t/172213/Flow

John C Daley wrote:This paper details what steps have been taken in Serbia to assist peole with disablities to keep bees.
Its fantastic Beekeeping with disabilities

The building and hive set up is awesome and would work well in my cold wet climate.   I do want the box lift, frame racks, and cart design they use.  These are fantastic and would make hive inspections and harvesting so much easier for people who don't find lifting heavy objects comfortable. I wish they had more information on the design of these tools.  

Anne Miller wrote:What do you think about this hive?

https://permies.com/t/172213/Flow

While the Flow hive is designed to make harvesting the honey easier it still is a vertical lift design which makes hive inspections and other care difficult or impossible to do while seated.  

I love approach the people in the paper took because it adapted a hive design that works in a cold climate.  This reduces the work load of winterizing the hives that we have to do every year.  
The Flow hive was designed in a warm climate and it has proven to be problematic with the hobby bee keepers I know in my area.  Where I live it is very hard to winter over bees on a commercial or hobby scale.  We loss 1/3 to 2/3 of all the hives state wide every winter here and I don't know anyone who has been successful at keeping their bees alive to the following year in them.  

This paper also addresses the other tools that one would need to do a hive inspection,  hive splitting and other chores a beekeeper would do.  

Thank you, John! I love those Slovenian hives - they really make it an art form!

Thanks Jane.
I will find plans for the tools
I have found some for the hives and have created a separate topic

Here are some variations of hive lifters.
https://warre.biobees.com/lift.htm
Now they are designed for 'warre' hives which have side rails that could be added to any hive if need be.