Mobility Products and Equipment for Seniors

Getting old means that slowly but surely our mobility will start being compromised. Reduced ability to move can come from several sides, usually starting for example with loss of stamina, balance, or compromised vision. Of course, any injury on legs can provide numerous issues both during walking and other common moves such as getting in and out of chairs or beds.

However, living with the compromised mobility does not mean that the elderly are forced into less movement. Far from it! The modern industry of elderly mobility products has strived for decades to provide various types of support for seniors who suffer from different walking issues, ranging from accessories that can be used by single hand (folding canes, quad canes or Hemi walkers), to more elaborate help in form of two-handed or electric walkers, and all the way to larger devices such as recliner lift chairs, chair lifts, scooters and motorized hospital beds.

No matter what your needs are, here you can discover the general capabilities, read about commonly used features on a wide range of devices, and learn how various mobility products can make lives of elderly more complete , enabling them to more easily move through their home, enjoy walking outside, maintain their health and remain independent .

Walkers for Seniors

Elderly who have only a slightly compromised mobility (which is caused by a small leg injury, loss of stamina, reduced limb strength or slightly compromised balance) can greatly increase their ability to walk by using only simple accessories – canes, crutches, walkers and other types walking aids. The most important thing to take into consideration when determining purchase any walking aid, no matter if it priced $10 for a simple cane or several hundreds of dollars for advanced walking frames, is seniors level of strength, balance, stamina, height, and weight. These factors are most important for helping you pick the best possible mobility aid.

Hemi Walkers

Hemi Walker is an innovative walking aid accessory that provides the user with more stability than simple walking cane, or even a four-legged cane (quad cane). Created to be used in a single hand, Hemi walkers are perfect solutions for elderly, or younger patients with a mobility issues, who are experiencing such a loss of mobility in single leg that cannot be alleviated with a single cane, but who believe that full walkers or wheelchairs are unnecessary and too restricting for their needs and movement capabilities.

Usually priced between $50 and $100, depending on their build quality and presence of accessories, Hemi Walkers represent one of the best possible solutions for augmenting movement if one leg cannot fully keep a user upright during a walk.

Canes for Seniors

The simplest of all mobility aids, canes were used since the dawn of time to augment injured or elderly during walk if one of their legs was injured enough so that It cannot keep user upright during a walk. Canes are also needed for users who are simply experiencing a loss of stamina, the overall loss of body strength, slightly compromised balance, or they simply want to have an additional point of stability that will keep them more confident during walking.

Offering a single point of support, canes are usually very cheap and can have an only small number of accessories (most common one being a simple folding mechanism).

Scooters for Seniors

Elderly who have good mobility on shorter distances are often faced with an issue of not being able to quickly (or at all) go to the nearby store, a location near their home or even remain fast and mobile inside their homes. One of the best solutions for this problem are mobility scooters, which enable elderly to very quickly expand the places they can visit without the need to seek help from others or use devices such as a motorized wheelchair. Fast, safe, mobile and agile, mobility scooters can be used both indoors and outdoors.

Scooters are available in numerous types, covering the specific needs of the elderly regarding the places where they want to use them, the weight of the user, and the amount of optimal accessories they require.