Senior Equipment, Assistive Products and Devices
[fullwidth[senior-care]fullwidth]To enable better and safer lives to elderly who are experiencing deteriorating mobility, compromised movement, balance, and stability issues, here you can find equipment, products and different types of devices which can help your elderly members of the family to have safer and fuller lives.
Check out the list of different products and devices categorized in our sections:
Home Aids for Seniors
Providing safe home environment is the most important thing family and caregivers can provide to elderly. This help can range from making sure their home is safe for use and is optimized to prevent most common accidents that elderly can face (such as falls), remain as mobile as possible, enable them to operate their daily schedules even with reduced mental capacity more easily, and easily keep in touch with outside world both with mobility products or with easy way to contact outside help.
Find out more how you can provide an improved living environment for seniors, what are the potentially most dangerous parts of their home where they can fall or injure themselves, and read tips about home help and home safety.
Mobility Products
Mobility products for elderly can enable seniors toregain their independence and maintain their health by having an easier time not only walking in their homes or outside, but also taking better advantage of their own homes by reclaiming access to areas that were previously inaccessible for them (for example by using chairlifts).From small one-handed accessories for assistive walking (canes, crutches, walkers) to larger devices for both movement and an easier time for getting in and out of chairs and beds, various mobility products can easily transform the life of elderly who have suddenly lost their freedom of movement.
Tech for Seniors
Daily lives of elderly are today much different than in the past, with modern technologies enabling seniors to take much larger control over their independence, movement, management of their health and ability tosimplify many daily activities and receive help from family or caregivers. Modern technology can interact with elderly from the moment they wake up with the sounds of an automated alarm clock to the night when they will return to their motorized bed that allows them to lie down more easily.
Find about more about technology that helps and saves senior lives.
Why we believe Senior Gizmo can help?
The time comes when families have to start planning to help their elderly member to have better, safer and fuller lives. One of the key aspect of this planning is making sure that elderly users with compromised movement, balance and stability issues can take full advantage of their homes, remain active and mobile, be safer in some of the more dangerous parts of their home (such as bathrooms or stairs), and enable them to retain a good level of freedom and independence outside of their home.
Some of the accessories that can help them achieve this is home medical equipment as walking aids, bath safety products, outdoor mobility aids and others. In addition to product descriptions, you can also learn a lot about techniques for improving the safety of seniors, making their homes more accessible, and what to expect from their health as they grow older. Also, reading about many types of safety and mobility aid accessories will provide you with invaluable knowledge that you will be able to use both for short-term help, prolonged care, and to hone your decision-making process that will benefit the health and safety of your entire family and aging parents.
Mobility aids featured on this site can serve seniors with very wide range of disabilities, anywhere from those who just need a bit of added stability of a cane during their walks to the more serious issues that affect seniors who struggle to keep balance, cannot safely operate their home or remain upright for even the short periods of time.
To make you better prepared for this inevitable period of life when elderly need to be taken care off, it is better to get an early education about all available options before you have an imminent need to react. Take note that for many families, this planning period can often come suddenly and cause considerable mental or financial strain, which can affect not only you but your wider family.
