I Want to Transfer Anywhere - Absolutely Anywhere!

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Imagine that you aren’t able to get up out of that chair that you are sitting in right now. How long could you stand it? Would you be happy to even get a little help after an hour or two, even if it was only enough to move you into one other spot?  What if you could move even more?

The thing that I like most about a ceiling or wall based motorized transfer system is the freedom it can provide to a person with a disability and their caregivers. A reliable system can free a person from fear of being dropped or fear of injuring a caregiver and can provide the freedom to move from seat to seat as many times a day as they want or need to. Even a basic straight piece of track over a bed and the space beside it can be life changing for a person who could not move from bed or wheelchair without it.

That said, imagine the freedom if a person could move anywhere they want to within a room. A traverse Track System accomplishes that. The traverse track system consists of two fixed ceiling or wall mounted parallel rails and one traverse rail that moves back and forth of the parallel rails.  The manual version shown in our video can be moved almost effortlessly by a caregiver. SureHands Lift and Care Systems as usual has many options to allow us to match a person’s abilities and environment. There is an electric version that can be operated independently by a person sitting in the body support or sling. We can also connect a traverse rail to another rail and a person can move outside of the room. While a traverse track system may not be able to move a person anywhere in the physical environment, such as down their outside ramp, all over the yard, or up and down the stairs, it can come very close to moving a person anywhere inside they want to go within their home.

If you’d like to learn more about the possibility of transferring anywhere, give us a call or visit the SureHands Lift and Care Systems web site http://www.surehands.com.  Imagine the freedom!

Power Toilet Aid Elevates Toilet Seats

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Elevate your bathroom experience

There are few worse places to get stuck than on the toilet.   Being able to go to the bathroom on your own is one of the first real forms of independence people develop, and being denied that ability due to injury, disability, or age can be frustrating and heartbreaking.  And not all of us have people who can come to the rescue at a moment’s notice!   Being unable to stand up and move from the toilet while alone at home can be just as dangerous (or lead to) a fall.

Fortunately there are a variety of solutions that can help people recover bathroom independence.

Sometimes, raising the toilet seat and adding grab bars is enough to give people the boost they need to get back on their feet.  Sometimes people need more help than that!  The Stand Aid power toilet may be the answer.  The Stand Aid power toilet is meant for situations where the person in question needs to be nearly standing again to get on and off the toilet.   It can lift 13” vertically to help someone back to their feet, but slowly lowers them to toilet level for both safety and cleanliness.

If you or someone you know is having trouble on the toilet, don’t be afraid to get help.  There are so many solutions that will take your bathroom experience back to the level it should be.  Share the news and share the video.

Tub Cut at Harrison Heights Senior Village

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At first, you might assume that cutting an 18” wide opening in the side of a bathtub would ruin it, but think again.  If the tub is unusable as a tub or shower because a person feels unsafe stepping over the side, or doesn’t use it for soaking because they can’t get up if they sit on the floor of the tub, what good is it?  It is a big useless waste of space!  Why not cut the side out of it, especially if you know what you are doing and you install a Tubcut™ which is strong, economical, and reversible?

This month, we visited our friend Pam Jackson, the property Manager at Harrison Heights Senior Village (402) 933-8080 to talk about her with the Tubcut™  we did for some of the people who live there. We had three major questions for her to determine if the process had been successful

1) Did the Tubcut™  improve the safety and independence of the person who had to use it?

2) Was the Tubcut™ good for helping her get the apartment filled, and for the community?

3) If the opportunity arose, would she arrange a Tubcut™ for another person who needed or wanted one?

The answers to all three questions were resoundingly positive. “[The Resident] doesn’t have to worry about falling or anything like that when he gets into the tub, but the option is also open where we have the piece and can put it back if another resident wants the full tub…Our whole office likes it.”

We are always thrilled to help out our friends at Harrison Heights, and help keep their residents safe and independent. If you know people who could use a little extra security getting in and out of the tub, but want to be able to convert it back to a regular tub if need be, share the news, and share the video. The Tubcut™ is the economical solution they need.