Lifting and Transferring

You’ve come to a crossroads: without your assistance, your loved one can no longer get up from the bed without tumbling to the floor. A decline in mobility, muscle strength and balance, as well as confusion, unawareness of physical limitations and impaired communication are all contributing factors. So it’s a new landscape now, one that puts extra responsibility on you to keep an even more watchful eye on your loved one and to actually do lifting and transferring—from a bed to a chair, from one seat to another, from a wheelchair to the toilet. Here then are some practical ways to safely accomplish this activity.

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