Many people who have difficulties going up and down stairs due to arthritis, old age, or muscular related diseases. For these peoples a stairlift can be installed to help safely use the stairs. Stairlifts are home mobility aids that are used to carry an individual up and down the stairs. A rail system is attached to the stairs and a chair or small platform is sent up and down the stairs.

There are several different manufacturers of stairlifts. Acorn is a company that has been manufacturing stairlifts since 1992. Originally they bought and sold new and refurbished stairlifts. The demand grew and they decided to manufacture their own stairlifts to ensure that they could meet the demand, while still maintaining a high level of safety and dependability. Manufacturing their own stairlifts also meant that they were able to design out some problems that they had noticed with their competitor's stairlifts.

Today Acorn is one of the largest distributors of stairlifts both domestically in the US and abroad. Their US distribution center is in Orlando Florida and their company headquarters is in the UK. They led the way in developing the battery powered stairlift. When they began manufacturing battery powered stairlifts, no other manufacturers were making them, but now almost all manufacturers offer them.

Acorn manufactures more than 30,000 stairlifts every year. They are highly respected in the stairlift industry and have distribution centers all over the world.