Challenges with mobility often come with age or illness. Caregivers assists individuals with limited mobility to keep them safe and comfortable in their own home and allow them to continue doing things that are important to them.
Elderlink caregivers can assist with mobility the following ways:
- Provide stand-by assistance for individuals who require the help of a walker or cane while walking.
- Push individuals in wheelchairs.
- Provide assistance with transfers and getting up and down, etc.*
- Provide help getting from the bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to toilet, etc.*
- Walk with individuals who struggle with balance or gait issues to make sure they are safe.
*In keeping with guidelines and rules set-forth by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Elderlink Home Care, Inc. is unable to completely lift anyone needing assistance with transfers. For Elderlink to adequately and safely help with mobility, an individual must be able to stand and bear weight on their own and assist with their transfers to some degree. If an individual does not meet these criteria, Elderlink would be able to provide care while the individual remains in bed.
To find out more about how Elderlink Home Care, Inc. can assist you or a loved one mobility and transfer assistance, please call today!