Tag: Falls Prevention
What’s New with Raizer II?
Yorkshire Care Equipment have been supplying the Raizer emergency lifting chair to care homes, hospitals, emergency services, and private residences across Scotland and Northern...
How to prevent falls in the bathroom
In 2019, Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) reported that they receive, on average, 236 emergency calls every day to help people who have fallen. Across...
How to get back up after a fall
Slips, trips, and stumbles are always more common in autumn and winter. What with slippery leaves and trip hazards galore, it’s a lot easier...
Working with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to relieve paramedics
After announcing that we’d supplied the Raizer lifting chair to the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) last year, we were over the moon to find...
5 Reasons to Use the Raizer Lifting Chair
With the end of the financial year looming, now’s the time for different NHS trusts to invest in equipment that had perhaps been on...
What is a no lift policy?
We hear about no lift policies quite a bit when we visit different sheltered housing, extra care facilities, and nursing homes. But what is...
Back to school: training Sheffield Hallam University students on the Raizer!
We recently took a trip to Sheffield Hallam University to deliver some exclusive equipment training to their occupational therapy students. This provided them with...
How to use the Raizer lifting chair
The Raizer lifting chair is a particularly useful falls assist that helps fallen people get back to a seated or standing position. But do...
What to do when someone falls
When someone falls, you almost instinctively want to just get them back up on their feet. And you can indeed do this as long...
Case Study: ExtraCare gives residents a lift with the Raizer
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust has 21 retirement villages around the UK, and its staff kept finding that falls were one of the biggest boundaries...