Floor lifts do not have the vertical reach or stability for this application. Snoezelen rooms are used to provide visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory stimulation to deaf and blind children, elderly clients with senile dementia, autistic children, Alzheimer's patients and others with profound and multiple handicaps. Ceiling lifts are ideal for transferring clients around the soft rooms and multi-sensory stimuli of a snoezelen environment. Retractable track mounted on the roof of the cab of a harvest-combine enables a wheelchair bound prairie farmer to transfer himself into his place of work. There are ceiling lifts in classrooms and play areas in designated schools.
Boathouses have ceiling lifts.
Ceiling lifts have workplace applications. The introduction of mechanical devices into an environment always raises the issues of available space and the reach of the device. Ceiling lifts do not require turning space. Ceiling lifts pass through narrow passages, go around tight corners and transfer from room to room. Ceiling lifts function in small bedrooms or operating rooms and in the restricted confines of bathrooms.