Wondering if anyone has used this and if so, did it work ok for you? I need something to help get DH out of chairs/couch. He's okay to walk once he gets up, but has knee/leg problems that makes it hard to get out of chairs.
Lots of places have them, Amazon included. Just wanted someone who had used one to comment, if there is anyone out there. There are manual and electric ones.
Thank you for that information. I never knew they made just cushions. Medicare or Medicaid - don't remember which one - bought an entire electric lounging chair for my MIL when she was too frail to get out of a chair herself. With a touch of a button, the seat lifted up, so she could get out of the chair. When she died, Sid insisted on putting it in our basement storage room because "you'll never know when we might need it." It was amusing at that time. Well, we moved the thing from Massachusetts to Florida from house to house, and it is now in the garage in our new house, and guess what? It's not going to be too long before one or both of us need it. Me, if the surgery doesn't fix the knee. But it is so good to know that there are cushions out there that do the same thing. I just put the cushion link up on the right side of my home page - www.thealzheimerspouse.com
i'd also like to know if someone has used them. my mom suggested it for my leather chairs instead of the whole lift chair for DH as well. says they work pretty good as far as she has heard. maybe it could work on the bed as well.
One of the websites had reviews of the manual ones - mostly not good. Hard seat, heavy to move around. One one dementia person had put her hands under it and got bruised. I haven't found any reviews of the electric ones. My DH would know how to work it okay, so may go ahead and see about getting the electric one.
I am using the lift chair for DH. It works great for us. I moved his leather chair into his bedroom. He doesn't life it clear to the upright position because I haven't showed him that he can. I just have raised it to slightly above regular chair height so he still has to use his arms to push himself and I also have to assist. Doctors don't like the lift chairs because they need the exercise of pushing from the chair. Around here used "lift chairs" are advertised every week for $300 or under. I don't know how much the cushions are. I figure when I need to sell mine I can get most of my money back.
When DH was the 24/7 caregiver for his late wife he bought a few lengths of PVC and left one near each chair she used. When she wanted to get up from the chair he had her hold on to the piece of pipe and he held onto the ends and pulled her up that way.