My 83-year-old mother has osteoarthritis and her knees are basically bone-on-bone. She is having trouble getting out of her chair. Right now she rocks back and forth in her chair and grabs on the walker, but I'm afraid she's going to keep going and fall head over heels when I'm not there.
Couple tips about the chairs. They are simple to operate but people with dementia may not be able to remember how. Also, if cognitive skills are bad they can dump themselves on the floor.
My mom does not have dementia but still forgets to use the assist to get up and down most of the time.
One time when Mom was getting PT, he showed me how to help her do things, how she could help herself, how to use a gait belt. Later they showed me how to transfer her without injuring myself. But videos are helpful too.
These chairs come in different sizes, the store asked how much did my Dad weigh and how tall was he, thus he got a chair that was a perfect fit. Later down the road, I could purchase a brand new chair or buy the rented chair with a nice discount.
That chair made it so easy for my Dad to stand up, as in the past he would try to use the arms of his standard recliner or grab the rolling walker seat and try to pull himself up. He fell a few times trying to do that.
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