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14. You need a couple of home health aids for assisting.
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 06:55 PM
Dec 2020

Preferably a shower chair, grab bars installed waist high, and a non-slip surface. Your local hospital where she gets treated may be able to help you with a social worker who will do an in-home evaluation and can sometimes set you up with some training for in-home care. The most important thing to remember is to provide stabilization through their movements. You on one side holding them stable with your arm around the back and positioned under their arm pit, and some sort of device, be it a stable chair or grab bar that they can access with their outside hand. Shower chairs should have rubber non-slip feet. If you have a tub height to overcome, assist them to sit on the edge of the tub and help them pivot to inside the tub. Position yourself slightly behind them and support them as they lower onto the chair seat. Getting out of the tub is the reverse. The important thing to remember is not to compromise your center of gravity when you assist. Don't extend your arms out away from your body to assist. Don't assist someone in a chair from a front facing position, as they can tip backwards. At the side and slightly behind is where you should be. I am sure some of this stuff is online.

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