Columbia Aged Care

As we age it often gets harder to do the daily tasks we have been easily doing our whole life. Joints and limbs often start to stiffen and hurt more. Reaching for itmes in high/ low places becomes more strenuous and exhausting than what we once remembered. Even simple things like pulling on socks and shoes requires more strength than it would seem some aged people have.

There are a variety of companies that have dedicated their enterprises to creating living and rehabilitation aids for people, such as the elderly, to help them complete their daily activities with more ease than their bodies would, at this stage, permit. There are now a range of living aids on the market to help with a number of activities.

Australia's aged care directory, Wisecare, provides an article by LifeHealthCare Distribution who supply a range of living aids.

Daily living aids supplied by the company include dressing aids, kitchen aids, cutlery, reachers and general purpose aids. Dressing aids are available in options such as stocking aids, stocking donners, sock aids, dressing sticks, shoe horns, long-handled combs, spring laces, leg lifters and button hooks. Kitchen aids supplied by the company include plate surrounds, plate guards, scoop dishes, twister jar openers, tap turners, anchor pads, anti-spill mugs, dysphagia cups, feeding cups, two-handled mugs, insulated mugs, can openers, reflex cutlery, Nelson knives, kettle tippers and kitchen trolleys. General aids come in choices such as handy bars, magnifying viewer sheets, pen holders, key turners, chiropodist scissors and foam tubes.

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