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Daily activities start becoming challenging due to a variety of medical conditions, injuries, and increasing age. Tasks like using the bathroom and toilet, getting dressed, eating, mobilizing, etc. can be overwhelming. And you might rely on the help of caregivers or family members. This will take away your independence. This is where  aids for the elderly  come in handy. We have categorized them into different types. Let us learn more about them. Hygiene  Hygiene plays an important role in a healthy lifestyle. The clean surroundings will make you feel good and motivated. With increasing age, bathing seems like a difficult task. Well, you can buy back washers and body washers with extended handles which makes bathing easier if you have a less flexible body.  We talked about how a few tools can make bathing easier for you but what about the soapy wet floors. It increases the risk of falling on the floor if you have less stable feet. To overcome this, installing grab bars or rails in the

  Disposable gloves are inexpensive and provide you with cross-contamination in any situation. More and more industries have started using different types of gloves as per requirements. You may be new to this or want to know more about what, when, and how parts of gloves. Keep reading Purpose of Using Gloves We need gloves for various purposes. There are different glove grades available like food grade, medical grade, industrial grade, and surgical grade. Food Grade Gloves Food-grade gloves are designed for a variety of tasks and not for prolonged use and are called  disposable gloves . They are mostly useful for low-risk and light-duty tasks like preparing or serving food. These gloves are also suitable for cleaning tables or general cleaning tasks. Medical Grade Gloves These gloves are useful in laboratories, hospitals, nursing homes, etc., for any non-surgical use like the medical examination. They are also useful when dealing with bodily fluids or contaminants. They come i

Elderlies face many challenges in a day while doing many activities. Like while bathing, they have a fear of slipping, while sleeping, they have insomnia attacks, while walking, they have a constant fear of falling. But there is one challenge that people rarely talk about - facing challenges in controlling the fluids or urine coming out of the urinary tract. This issue is common and severe. If the elderly are facing such problems, then consulting a doctor is the first thing one should do. If the problem continues, doctors will suggest products available for the elderly that help them to stay dry all day by absorbing all the fluids. These products are known as incontinence products. Many products are available under this, like incontinence pads, incontinence sheets , etc.  These pads absorbs the fluid and prevents infection from spreading in the body. Let us discuss the benefits of incontinence pads to give you more details about why these products are worth using:  It Absorbs High

We all believe there is no place like home. We try to make our home as comforting as possible. But when it comes to the elderly, they have various physical conditions that make simple things a little complex. Thus, making a few changes and adding a few things can make their experience better. Here are a few changes that you can do to make your home elderly-friendly. Right Kind of Furniture Modifying furniture to the height elderlies can easily sit and stand up is necessary. Most of them have joint pains which makes it difficult for them to get up from the chair or bed. So beds with adjustable height or beds with a suitable height is what you need to make your home elderly-friendly.  The same is with chairs. Be it a dining table chair or resting chair, make sure the chairs are wide and strong enough for them to sit comfortably without the chair moving from place. If you have round doorknobs you can change them to lever-style doorknobs as they are more comfortable and easier for e

Whenever you visit a doctor's clinic, there are certain common equipment you will find on his desk, on his body, or in his coat's pockets like blood pressure measurer, stethoscope, tongue depressor, gloves, stopwatch, respiratory care devices, etc. This equipment is the one that is necessary for any minor to major medical problems. These equipment are useful to conduct a quick survey of the patient's situation. By using that equipment, doctors can get an idea about a patient's body temperature, blood pressure, heart rates, etc. After knowing all these basics, they can securely move on to the next step, prescribing medicine or doing surgery. In this article, we will know about such standard types of equipment used by every doctor that they are using before moving on to any treatments.  Stethoscope Let us start with the most obvious and common doctor's equipment - a  stethoscope . French physician R.T.H. Laënnec introduced this tool. He initially made a wooden cy

The elderly are prone to falls and injuries due to limited mobility. And shower places are the trickiest places because of the wet floors, absence of support, etc., could lead to serious falls. However, today there are a lot of products available which can help you avoid them. For example, shower equipment that helps you maintain your balance and take showers safely – Shower Chairs. It acts as an  aids for the elderly  to maintain support and have their bath comfortably without the fear of falling down because let me tell you that the fear of falling can prove to be as harmful mentally as the injuries harm physically. And the stress of that can decrease quality of life and mess up with other things that also gives birth to new mental issues. So, let us learn more about this helpful equipment.  What are Shower Chairs? These chairs are furniture that is specially designed for bathroom use, significantly to help the people with limited mobility. It is designed in a way that it keeps

  Quote by L. Frank Baum - “There is no place like home”. The comfort you get at home is incomparable. Due to increasing age, you might have problems like weak eyesight, hearing problems, joint pains, less stable feet, etc., and choose to stay at home most of the time. However, many times, you might have faced tripping and falling in the house because of the physical limitations. So, it becomes essential for you to organize the house in a safe and comfortable way. If you live alone, it is important to have these items for increased independence and ease out your lives in many ways. Here, we have listed a few items that you must have in the house for senior citizens. Bathroom Essentials A bathroom is a place where every individual likes to have your personal space and privacy. But with increasing age and knee pain, it is difficult for you to sit and stand up by yourselves while using the toilet. You need support every time you wish to use the toilet. To overcome this issue, you can