Lifting

[aliciamq]

It is becoming more difficult to help my husband get up and I tryed to find a "lift"(?) I am not using the right words to find information on what I need - What have you used to get a large person off the floor??? Plz&Thx

[aliciamq]

I've been doing great until recently - I'm not getting as much help from Jack or I'm getting more afraid of injuring myself ~

[Julieandrog]

Our tele alarm device , the little gadget you see people wearing around their neck, me now! They will now come out and get the person up they have special cushions that pump up to elevate them.

Julie

[Satt2015]

I think the best advice I can give you is to call for an ambulance, they never mind helping getting someone up from the ground and they can do it without injuring themselves or the patient! X

[Blots]

The Occupational Therapist associated with my father’s GP provided my parents with one of those inflatable cushion devices. At the time when he was still trying to get up in the night it was used quite a lot. Even on the odd occasion when he fell in a position where my mother couldn’t use it, and she had to call the paramedics, it was useful because theirs wasn’t always charged.

I think this was the one they had: healthcare.co.uk/mangar-elk...

[Zeberdee]

Agree that calling an ambulance is the best advice. You do not want to injure yourself so call the best trained people and they will tell you it's their job and do not mind at all. Jx

[JA10]

Are you thinking about a sort of hoist? You would then put the strap around your husband before he needed to move and that would support him, meaning he didn't fall at all. I think that is how they work. I am heading to the point where I am going to be looking at them for my mum, she is in a wheelchair but the transfer between that bed etc are still really worrying as she is now struggling to hold herself up and twist/ move to the next place. She does not need one quite yet, but I am going to start researching which is the best option, and then if we can get it through funding.

If you were thinking of after falls, the blow up cushion thing that has been mentioned is good apparently, though you may still need for him to be able to manoeuvre on to it.

JA

[Blots in reply to JA10]

My mother used to have to roll my father onto his side, then put the cushion (deflated and flat) behind him. She rolled him so his bottom was on it, then had to lift his upper body so he was sitting on the cushion & leaning against her legs. The pump then inflated the cushion to about chair height, with his back still supported by her body. Then he could hold on to his Re-Turn or a rail and she could help him into an upright position, then onto the wheelchair.

For normal transfers, she had a ReTurn (looks a bit like a sack truck), then when that wasn’t enough, a powered Stand Aid. He’s moved beyond being able to use any of those now, but they were all hugely useful for a while.

[aliciamq in reply to JA10]

He can't really scooch himself or roll over😞

[easterncedar]

Hoyer lift is a powered device with a sling. We found it very useful.

[aliciamq in reply to easterncedar]

That is what I was looking for and was putting in the wrong name ~ and once I made this post a list of conversations came up to include one I participated in!!!!! - Jack falls so often - we went for a lovely ride yesterday even taking my 83 yr. old uncle and darnit if he didn't fall back out the door once I THought I had him in the house - he was ok.

Calling the ambulance sounds crazy - I have had to call twice when I knew he was also injured but geeze - I need to pay 100% attention to him when he's up Not 99.99%

So the Hoyer lift ----- I looked at photos and still wonder how that thing doesn't fall over!!?? Can I slide the material under him and then hook him up and then crank it? I, of course, can watch YouTube (just thought of that).

Right now I get him to his knees then keep him supported while he gets to his feet -But, He is not getting to his feet anymore without concerted effort on my part and my chest muscles are complaining :/ Thank You for the responses - I couldn't sleep last night trying to solve this problem :} Love!

[aliciamq in reply to aliciamq]

I had forgotten about the blow up thing, too!!!!

Thx.

[easterncedar in reply to aliciamq]

You're in the US, alicia? I wish I could get the hoyer I have to you. It's just a clothes rack now!

[aliciamq in reply to easterncedar]

😆😆😆-- I'm in Michigan - Detroitish - and thanks for the thought!

[Marie_14]

My husband was unable to help. He was just a dead weight so I always rang the Ambulance service but through the alarm service we had. Thank heavens for them as I could never have got him off the floor myself.

Marie

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I use a hoyer lift, think called stork lift in UK, all the time. In fact it's the only way I transfer dad from one place to another now. The sling is placed under him, roll him to one side and back to position, then attach it to the lift, push UP and away he goes.

Ron

[doglington]

I have a blow up cushion [ a camel ]

Now Chris can't help himself at all and its hard getting him from chair to bed.

The hoist sounds like the next stage.

Jean

[abirke]

alicia, how are you dong?

[aliciamq in reply to abirke]

Ok!!! I want to ask you about "the pot" will try to email. Thx !!!!!!! Btw🙂