by Gareth Williams | Dec 31, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Bedroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Health Care, Safety
Raised toilet seats will, for a lot of elderly people, become a pretty standard and wonderfully helpful, piece of equipment, if mobility, stiffness and balance start to become an issue in their lives. And in particular, if like my mom, your parent has a hip, or knee...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 31, 2019 | Beginners Info, Elderly Monitoring, General Equipment, Safety
I have to say that when I started talking to my mom about trying out some video monitoring in our home, to see if it was viable, she wasn’t too thrilled ! In this article I look at how to approach using video surveillance for elderly monitoring, the legality of...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 29, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Just over 18 months ago, when my mom had full hip replacement surgery, I purchased a kit of equipment which was to help my mom in her rehabilitation. As part of this kit, we received what looked like a large white plastic bubble, and which turned out to be one type of...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 27, 2019 | Bedroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Safety
Last summer, after my mom had a hip replacement at 89 yrs young, I quickly realized I was going to need some kind of device to let me know when she was trying to get out of bed, in case I didn’t hear her call me. Types of bed alarms and motion sensors –...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 12, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Choosing the different types of equipment for my elderly mom, to help facilitate the different tasks she performs every day has, at times, been rather confusing, and choosing a raised toilet seat was no different. To measure for a raised toilet seat – measure...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 5, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Safety
As caregivers to elderly parents, we are constantly trying to make things easier for our parents in their daily activities. Any area which requires good mobility becomes more critical, and the toilet is no exception. There are a number of ways of making things easier,...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 4, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Personal Hygiene, Safety
It was prior to my mom having a hip replacement that my investigation into raised toilet seats went into full swing. The raised toilet seat is one of those pieces of equipment that most caregivers will become very familiar with, if they are looking after an elderly...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 3, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Until you spend time with someone with mobility issues, you probably won’t ever come into contact with a raised toilet seat, or for that matter have any idea what they do. It’s as my parents’ caregiver that I discovered them. There are a number of...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 3, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Safety
About 18 months ago, my now 90-year-old mother had a hip replacement, and I became acquainted with all the accessories that we were going to need to use. Probably the most important of which was the raised, or elevated toilet seat. Now there are lots of different...
by Gareth Williams | Dec 2, 2019 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, General Equipment, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Before I became a caregiver to my two parents, I never really gave much thought to how difficult even the simplest activities, such as sitting down and getting up, can become as we get older. To help with mobility problems there are many pieces of equipment and, for...
