Older clients depend on their carers to assist them to move and transfer from one place to another safely and with dignity. It is necessary for carers to develop the skills to use manual handling equipment efficiently.
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Topics: patient lifting, aged care, nursing home, occupatiional therapy, Manual Handling
The new Kingsdene Premium Change Tableis designed to address a wide range of manual handling issues and benefits both patient and carers. Its powered height adjustment allows for comfortable handling of the patient to the correct positional height of up to 975mm during procedures with enhanced safety and care.
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Topics: patient care, Manual Handling, residential care, change tables
Power lift chairs, or recliner chairs, are designed to elevate and tilt to allow patients to sit without too much trouble. Most reclining chairs feature a control box that allows for that very same lifting mechanism. You may find that while you’re browsing through our range of lifting chairs for sale that you see words such as ‘Single Motor’ or ‘Dual Motor’. Simply put it means that a single motor allows you to raise your legs or recline the backrest however it must be done in a certain order. On the other hand dual motors allows many more options than a single motor would be able to do such as having the backrest and legs move independent of each other.
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Topics: patient lifting, patient care, Manual Handling, lift chairs
Manual Handling equipment allows carers to lift patients without injuring themselves. This is especially important for those who do standing transfers, where carers transfer patients to a standing position. If done incorrectly the carer could injure their back or the patient could be injured in the process of the transfer.
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Topics: Manual Handling, standing hoist, standing transfer equipment
There are a few different types of air-assisted transfer devices that can lift and transfer a person.
Inflatable mattresses transfer a person from bed to bed, and lifting devices that transfer a fallen person into a sitting position.
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Topics: patient lifting, aged care, Manual Handling, Falls, Mangar
You are invited to the Lunch n Learn Series Seminar" Rolling on the bed: Manual or mechanical methods?", with Aideen Gallagher on the 27th September 2017.
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Topics: aged care, nursing home, occupatiional therapy, Active Mobility Systems, Manual Handling, Therapists
On 26th July 2017 Aideen Gallagher from Manual Handling completed a day Lunch n Learn Series workshop including topics on Full lifting hoists, Standing hoists, Full lifting hoists, Toiletings slings.
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Topics: patient lifting, patient care, Educational Workshop, Manual Handling, patient sling