Slip Protection
May 19, 2011 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
A grab bar or a handrail is a bar that is primarily designed to help people with disabilities. You may have already seen some grab bars in accessible restrooms, which are there to help people get in and out of wheelchairs and walkers. You can also install grab bars for bathrooms to help disabled or [...]
A Nutritious Alternative to Snacks or Dessert
May 12, 2011 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
While most people worry about being overweight, there are people whose problem is that they are undernourished. They would like to gain more weight. There is a delicious solution to their problem. Ensure Pudding is a nutritious alternative to snacks or dessert. It is a source of complete and balanced nutrition in an easy to [...]
No More Pit Stops
April 11, 2011 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
As we get older, our ability to hold our urine weakens. This is very inconvenient especially if there are no toilets that we can use. Even for young people, getting stuck in traffic and needing to go can be a very frustrating situation. Luckily, they have invented a spill proof urinal men can use anywhere, [...]
Elderly Problems
April 4, 2011 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
There is a common problem among the elderly population. This is what we call geriatric incontinence. The term geriatric refers to elderly people while the term incontinence refers to the involuntary excretion of urine and the inability to control one’s bowels. Combining these two terms simply means the inability of the elderly to control the [...]
Walk this Way
March 31, 2011 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
For a disabled person and/or a senior citizen, the ability to get around is critical to having a good quality life. For this purpose, we’re glad that walkers elderly and disabled is available to ensure that our seniors and persons with disabilities are able to lead as normal a life as possible.
There are different [...]
Guidelines for Inserting a Urinary Catheter
March 17, 2011 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
A urinary catheter is an important device that is required by people suffering from incontinence. The ability to insert this device is an essential skill in the practice of medicine. Insertion of this urinary drainage for men should be done by trained healthcare workers. There are guidelines that are recommended for the process. Here are [...]
caregiver resources
October 14, 2009 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
A caregiver is an individual employed to render home care, meeting the physical and emotional needs of a client. The duties of a caregiver may vary. It can include providing personal hygiene care, serving and feeding, assisting the client as he moves around and providing therapy treatments as prescribed by a doctor. To do his [...]
power chairs
August 11, 2009 by SemiCritic
Filed under Elderly
With the different inventions being made each year, high-tech equipments were created to make people with disabilities live easier and bearable each day. The simple wheelchair used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury or disability has different styles and variations. Nowadays, manual wheelchairs have evolved to electric-powered wheelchairs [...]
