I was looking for these type of videos because I had this happen to me today with my grandmother but she is very weak. She couldn't get to all fours even with my help. I ended up having to put her on a sheet drag her to the front door, where right under the front door there is a step down. I put her feet out of the door and from there was able to push her up from the back to sit her up. Once she was sitting up I was able to lift her up onto her feet, I had her walker in front of her and my son held her walker in place from rolling. It was much easier now that her feet were lower than the rest of her body and it was almost like standing her from a seated chair position. She was able to turn round and come back in the house, assisted of course. Idk if this will help anyone else but I hope it does.
Excellent, when we visit any senior….make a game out of looking for what can be used to get up by oneself. Survey each room. Take screenshots. Think. Devise. What you did with your grandmother is bound to make her feel more secure. Did you determine why the fall in the first place? Front door is great, but don’t lock yourself out. Secure the door open in two ways so door can’t slam shut. Stuff something in the hinge jam, and wrap the door knob so it won’t close on you accidentally. Have shoes near the door, you need shoes as part of rescue. Practice. Make a game of it. Screenshots means picture album, means sharing with others.
So glad to hear that other folks have had the same problems I'm going through with my husband: 210 pounds of dead weight and often not completely lucid. It looks like we've been trying the way illustrated but when the patient can't help and they outweigh you, both of you end up injured.
These vids always show a person who hardly needs any help! The real world is a different picture. When I do manual handly training I never help the carer who is trying to stand me up! It always demonstrates that half these techniques do not work!
Exactly this. My mom can’t stand up or help me and i injure my arm all the time. Idk what to do. My arm wont heal been months but i keep having to lift her up so i get injured again.
Thank God for this video. My mother was stuck on the ground for 30 minutes and I found this video and had her up in less than 2 minutes! Fyi: we also prayed🙏🏿
This is great for those occasions when someone has fallen in an area with plenty of room to work. In practice, the people I most often have to help to their feet have fallen in the most inaccessible corner imaginable, usually between two immoveable objects.
Thanks for the video. It’s thought provoking. It’s a start, there are other elements to consider. Even if you don’t know ahead of time that your knees won’t cooperate…it’s possible to be surprised, never knew. What we need has to be devised. It’s not in catalogs. Devise. Fall victim has to cooperate. Butt skootch to a room divider overhead beam, attached is a triangle used to hoist up to sitting. You’ve stashed dollar store swimming pool air mattresses under the bed or behind the couch. Two should do it. Roll over or lift to bring underneath you. We need drawbridge furniture attachments. Modified recliner chair as a lift mechanism. Slant board. Telescope up to chair level. Alexa…I fell, send down the plank.
Thank you for this video. My father is almost 85 years old. He must have a Walker evertime he walks. Lots of times he forgets to bring his Walker. So whenever he falls. He needs 2 people to help him up. When I’m home but my mother isn’t I cannot get him up at all. So hopefully when he falls down next, and only one person is at home with him hopefully this plan will help.
I never would have figured out how to do this by myself. In fact my instincts about what to do would have been all wrong. When I got into a situation where I needed to get my wife off the floor, I was able to do it only because I had seen this video. So thank you very much.
None of this works with dead-weight. Note the fallen is helping in each maneuver. I need some advice on getting a 170 lb dead weight who can stand but only after being lifted.
I was just in this same situation. My patient was 194 lbs of dead weight. He couldn't help at all. I had to call his daughter who lives next door and we were able to do it together but even then it was extremely difficult. All the videos on here show the person helping. None show a dead weight situation.
Yes, a lot of the videos have a subject who stands with little assistance. It's nowhere near as simple for one person with a weak or elderly person who cannot do his part. I know, my father is not able to reliably straighten his legs. Still looking!
@barb rarick Absolutely true. My mother has been slowly losing strength in all her limbs, and even with me walking her, her legs will simply give out and she will collapse as dead weight. She weighs just over 200lbs. I am not near strong enough to lift her myself, and that means a night of horror for her and me, if lucky she falls near a couch or loveseat we might manage to get her crawling up it with me pulling and/or pushing after a couple of hellish hours for us both and a wracked up back for me. This technique would never work for her. I need advice to lift a deadweight just like the OP.
If the person is hurt or a dead weight, then two strong people need to help pick them up. However, if the person is able to get on their knees, then it works.
This video on helping someone up after a fall is outstanding. It shows step-by-step how to safely help them from a position on the floor to safely getting up. Thank you so much! Debra Seiling
Dealing with my father.. About 200 pounds.. parkinson's and back bone with tumors.. So almost zero use of legs. Although if he standing can use a walker a little bit. But when he falls, I have to dead lift him off the ground.. That is legs dangling in the air until he straightens them out. Looking for some sort of lift or device that will do the work for me.
Okay, this only works if they understand what you are trying to have them do. My mother has severe aphasia with frontotemporal dementia and on the rare occasions when she does fall, she knows she wants to get up but she cannot follow what I'm saying to help her. The other thing is - this really only works for a relatively thin person. Helping someone lift their hips from deadweight to a kneeling position is very difficult, especially if the patient does not understand what you're doing.
This may help for someone that doesn’t have bad knees! My lady can’t bend her knees much less put any weight on her knees to crawl either. Getting her up after a fall no easy task
This isn't a bad technique IF the person has the strength to get on his/her hands and knees. Just be sure before you roll them that the arm they are turning on is tucked as far beneath them as possible. That way, as they roll up and over it, the arm doesn't get caught under them.
What if she is overweight, with knee problems, shoulder tears and spinal problems. She keeps falling and i can't exactly just pull her up from her armpits since she yelps in pain. And i end up letting go of her. Before, i usually just pull her back up after a fall. She falls a lot of times.... And she would always chase me away since my methods are too brutish :V. Mind you, all other methods are kinda hard to implement since her arm movements are kinda not the same anymore, and her knees dont work the same either.... I don't understand though, i did the put her back on feet method easily b4 and she never complained.... Nowadays, The moment though i start putting her up she says ouch.....
We helped someone up whose wheelchair was running away by itself and the chair bumped onto the side walk and he fell onto the grass. His carer was elderly and I don't think was copi G. They asked us to help him up which we did. He was a dead weight with muscular disttopgy. We cod of easily pulled our backs. Thinking about it he should of been checked. We maybe shod of asked for ambulance? He hurt his side when he fell. I felt so sorry for him as he was young and visibly shaken.
My mother slipped off of her bed yesterday. She is very feeble and has had a shoulder replaced and this method would not really work for her. My nephew came over and we lifted with a blanket onto her bed and that worked very well. Then I ordered an inflatable bed for $50. If she's on the floor again I'll work it under her and then inflate it. It's supposed to go to 18 inches and her bed is 22 inches, so I think it will work.
This just happened to me literally 20-30 minutes ago, and my situation is surprisingly similar. My mother has had two surgeries after breaking her left shoulder. Not sure if it was totally replaced but I believe so. She fell out of bed onto her broken shoulder side but luckily no damage to her shoulder, although she has very thin skin and scraped her elbow and chin and bled like a stuck pig... I have no experience with taking care of disabled people so this was just terrifying for me. Her legs are basically useless unless she's in a standing position or goes from sitting from a chair or her bed, but she was in a sitting position on the floor so It was just near impossible for me to lift her up as I'm not strong enough and I didn't want to hurt her healing shoulder. It was such a hassle but I got her up to sitting on her bed and cleaned up the mess and what not. I agree this method wouldn't exactly apply to her because of her only having use of one arm. I also don't have anybody else to help me. I assume you have more experience with caring for a disabled person so I hope you may have any tips for the next time this happens, because she said last time "this won't happen again, I lost my footing" and making all kinds of excuses to save some of her dignity I suppose. But I knew last time wasn't the last time and this time was even worse so I'm just terrified to leave her alone. Again, any tips would be great because once she's on the floor she's literally dead weight and I'm not equipped to effectively handle a situation like that. I hope you and your mother will have better luck in the future.
john papple After I wrote my earlier entry I ordered and received an air bed. It was a Intex Comfort Plush twin sized air bed, if you want to know. Less that $50 with free shipping. A few days later I went to the grocery in the middle of the night. When I got home I found my mother on the floor. She didn't seem to be otherwise injured. I suppose you should call the paramedics if you have any doubt if there is an injury. But if you think she is okay and you just need to get her off the floor, the air bed worked very well. I opened it up and laid it out flat and maneuvered my mother onto it. I plugged it in and turned on the built-in switch and it started to inflate. My mother didn't like the noise, of course. She was too close to the edge and it was going to roll her off so I had to deflate it and get my mother settled into the middle of the air bed. After that it worked like a dream. It elevated her to a level much like her own bed. I could stand her up and turn her and sit her down on her regular bed. My mother is not "dead weight" but I'd say she is only slightly able to help me. I imagine if my mother was totally helpless I could have had a sheet under her on the air bed and pulled her on the sheet over to her own bed. It's much easier with two people. There are helpful videos here on how to give care to the disabled. Keep looking for them until all your questions are answered. I just bought a gait belt. Look at videos about using a gait belt and see if that sort of support of your mother would work for you. I haven't really tried mine yet. If you know a place in the floor where your mother might fall you could put a cushion or a foam mat on that spot on the floor, if you don't think it would trip her up. Like along side the bed if you think she might roll off. On my mother's bed there is a handhold that has feet on the floor and is held close to the bed by bars that slip under the mattress. It is like a mini-rail that can be used as a hand-hold, and it would also stop her from rolling off the bed.
I have the same issue with my grandfather. His one arm is useless due to having his dialysis shunt in it. When he falls I bring a chair over, have him get on his hands and knees, then prop his body to chair, then I help him lift himself up by putting his working "good" arm around my neck & do a 1-2-3 UP. It's worked so far for us. It is hard when you're only working with one arm on a fragile person.
The method in the video would only work if there is furniture nearby. A better way is to get the person in a sitting position, then from back put both of your arms under their arms and then lift them onto their feet. Hold them their for a minute until the regain their balance.
My 88 year old neighbor fell today with me right there and I did t know how to help her up! I am so upset I should of been Prepared. She grabbed the sink and I helped pull her up under her arms and I have a bad back and I hurt myself now. Luckily she is ok but I can’t pick her up with my weight cause of my back
How about someone knee doesn’t bend ? It’s hard many seniors don’t have good knees . Poor people even over weight , in hallway there is no bed or chairs , how they stand even if they fail in washroom ?.? It’s sad
ye i had to lift my great grandmother who's 98 and weights like 70kg... of course she has no strength to help whatsoever and is total dead weight... i tried to lift her from behind by hooking my arms under and around her armpits but it was clumsy af since I could only lift her up to my chest this way and it was also a bit painful to her... so she landed on the bed on her side... then it was a bit of awkward dragging... in the end i don't think she was rested comfortably... but what can i do... she has very little strength left, i don't think she will survive this year...
I just had to lift my 78 yr. old dad. Did the same arm hook thing. It hurt my heart not to be able to do it gently. I don't think it'll be much longer either. You struck a cord.
Always get the person to turn their face in the direction they're rolling. It's more natural for tjem and easier for ypu, as it shifts tje weight of their upper body to help you.
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250 lbs of dead weight, Arthritis throughout the body. Not able to crawl, weak arms and legs.... give me a break, how do you get them up? Question: how do you stop them from falling off the edge of their bed. I once heard that a swimming noodle tucked into the fitted sheet would help. Anyone tried this?
Bonnie Smith I recommend bringing a physical therapist or occupational therapist to evaluate and determine the most appropriate adaptive equipment for them, but a short answer is an antiroll mattress, assuming they are able to get in and out of it.
What worked for me …I had two sturdy stepstools to use after I went to retrieve something under kitchen cabinet. Nuh-uh…..not today. Not enough arm strength. So…I butt scootched five feet over to basement stairs. Voilà . Well, as long as this stairway handrail is here, I may as well use it. Some will say, can’t butt skootch. Learn. Anyone who can turn in a bed can inch-worm along the floor.
Standing up is a lot of strain. Much easier if they raise themselves and you slide a chair in behind them. They can then drop their weight back onto the chair and get themselves comortable and relaxed, before they then stand from the chair.
I live alone and need to figure out how to get up alone if I fall. I can't get on my knees and crawl. Not even a second on my knees. Absolute excruciating pain.
This didn't work for me because my mother's legs, knees aren't strong enough. She also has back problems. She is 90 and seemed helpless. I had to call a male neighbor to help lift her with no help from from her. I need to get in shape to dead lift 275 lbs I guess.
My mom had the same issue. I bought a bath lift chair for $100. It is battery powered and not heavy at all. It does the same thing $2000 lifts do. But, it's also waterproof to use for a bath. I got it used from offer up.
This doesn't work for everyone. My mom is 96. She fell and broke her left femur in 2018 and has now has long rod and screws in it. She can't bend that leg or kneel. Occasionally when she falls, usually backwards, she needs to be lifted. I am not strong enough so have to call 911.
200 lbs of dead weight on a person who doesn’t have much strength in there legs is very very difficult. Especially if you have wood floors and every type of furniture aide just slides away
I'm unsure about rolling someone onto their arm, surely that's going to be uncomfortable. Perhaps moving the arm on the side that the person is rolling onto might be more comfortable for them and easier for them to move the arm once they are on their front (a little bit like putting them into the recovery position). Using chairs at the head and the feet of the person maybe a good idea instead of making them crawl to a place to get themselves up (especially with arthritic knees).
Actually, if they are able to roll without pain and put their leg under them without pain and rise without pain, there's a good chance they're fine. I work in Aged Care; if we called an ambulance every time someone fell, we'd need to have a garage... We shouldn't move people without being sure, granted, but if they can move themselves with some guidance, then that's what we should be helping them to do.
NEVER attempt to help an elderly person up if they have fallen. CALL an Ambulance!! Fractures and pain or other internal injuries may not be evident until the next day....even if they say they feel ok. U are not a doctor or have x-ray vision to determine whether or not ..there is an injury...but you could be responsible for making the situation worse...AND what if they fell because they had a quick mini stroke??...and you are helping them up because to U all seems well???...CALL an ambulance.
If they can't get themself into this position via verbal prompts only, something is very wrong. If a person asks for help they are saying, "Can I borrow your muscles, mine are rubbish?" Hooking your arm under theirs is putting strain on these "rubbish" shoulder cuff muscles. They have already told you that their muscles are not up to the job. There is a raised risk of subluxation. Since 1982 in the UK this has been seen as an unsafe system of work and must be justified if something goes wrong.
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Nope nope nope never ever lift shift and transfer by pulling or lifting client by their arms. You’ve got to lift them by the torso and avoid breaking or dislocating arm or damaging fragile blood and lymph vessels in arm pit and inner arm. Please take down this video
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I was looking for these type of videos because I had this happen to me today with my grandmother but she is very weak. She couldn't get to all fours even with my help. I ended up having to put her on a sheet drag her to the front door, where right under the front door there is a step down. I put her feet out of the door and from there was able to push her up from the back to sit her up. Once she was sitting up I was able to lift her up onto her feet, I had her walker in front of her and my son held her walker in place from rolling. It was much easier now that her feet were lower than the rest of her body and it was almost like standing her from a seated chair position. She was able to turn round and come back in the house, assisted of course. Idk if this will help anyone else but I hope it does.
Excellent, when we visit any senior….make a game out of looking for what can be used to get up by oneself.
Survey each room. Take screenshots. Think. Devise.
What you did with your grandmother is bound to make her feel more secure. Did you determine why the fall in the first place?
Front door is great, but don’t lock yourself out. Secure the door open in two ways so door can’t slam shut. Stuff something in the hinge jam, and wrap the door knob so it won’t close on you accidentally.
Have shoes near the door, you need shoes as part of rescue. Practice. Make a game of it. Screenshots means picture album, means sharing with others.
So glad to hear that other folks have had the same problems I'm going through with my husband: 210 pounds of dead weight and often not completely lucid. It looks like we've been trying the way illustrated but when the patient can't help and they outweigh you, both of you end up injured.
These vids always show a person who hardly needs any help! The real world is a different picture. When I do manual handly training I never help the carer who is trying to stand me up! It always demonstrates that half these techniques do not work!
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Exactly this. My mom can’t stand up or help me and i injure my arm all the time. Idk what to do. My arm wont heal been months but i keep having to lift her up so i get injured again.
Thank God for this video. My mother was stuck on the ground for 30 minutes and I found this video and had her up in less than 2 minutes! Fyi: we also prayed🙏🏿
thats so good you invited our HEAVNLY FATHER for HELP HES ALWAYS WAITING TO HEAR FROM US
This literally just saved my grandma thank you so much!!!
Had to help a neighbor get up after a fall and wish I had watched this before. Excellent will use this technique in the future if necessary. Thank you
This is unrealistic. Heavy old people can't crawl. If they could move their legs like this man, they could get up on their own.
This is great for those occasions when someone has fallen in an area with plenty of room to work. In practice, the people I most often have to help to their feet have fallen in the most inaccessible corner imaginable, usually between two immoveable objects.
Thanks for the video. It’s thought provoking. It’s a start, there are other elements to consider.
Even if you don’t know ahead of time that your knees won’t cooperate…it’s possible to be surprised, never knew.
What we need has to be devised. It’s not in catalogs. Devise.
Fall victim has to cooperate.
Butt skootch to a room divider overhead beam, attached is a triangle used to hoist up to sitting. You’ve stashed dollar store swimming pool air mattresses under the bed or behind the couch. Two should do it. Roll over or lift to bring underneath you.
We need drawbridge furniture attachments. Modified recliner chair as a lift mechanism. Slant board. Telescope up to chair level.
Alexa…I fell, send down the plank.
Thank you for this video. My father is almost 85 years old. He must have a Walker evertime he walks. Lots of times he forgets to bring his Walker. So whenever he falls. He needs 2 people to help him up. When I’m home but my mother isn’t I cannot get him up at all. So hopefully when he falls down next, and only one person is at home with him hopefully this plan will help.
I'm glad, I did that instinctely when my dearest mum falled down in her 90ies 😥❤
Thank you, this definitely helped my mom and I know that we're doing the right thing when trying to help my grandma get up. Thank you!!!
I never would have figured out how to do this by myself. In fact my instincts about what to do would have been all wrong. When I got into a situation where I needed to get my wife off the floor, I was able to do it only because I had seen this video. So thank you very much.
None of this works with dead-weight. Note the fallen is helping in each maneuver. I need some advice on getting a 170 lb dead weight who can stand but only after being lifted.
I was just in this same situation. My patient was 194 lbs of dead weight. He couldn't help at all. I had to call his daughter who lives next door and we were able to do it together but even then it was extremely difficult. All the videos on here show the person helping. None show a dead weight situation.
Yes, a lot of the videos have a subject who stands with little assistance. It's nowhere near as simple for one person with a weak or elderly person who cannot do his part. I know, my father is not able to reliably straighten his legs. Still looking!
@barb rarick Absolutely true. My mother has been slowly losing strength in all her limbs, and even with me walking her, her legs will simply give out and she will collapse as dead weight. She weighs just over 200lbs. I am not near strong enough to lift her myself, and that means a night of horror for her and me, if lucky she falls near a couch or loveseat we might manage to get her crawling up it with me pulling and/or pushing after a couple of hellish hours for us both and a wracked up back for me. This technique would never work for her. I need advice to lift a deadweight just like the OP.
Get stronger kid, go to the gym and lift weights, get good at squats and deadlifts, bent over rows could help too.
If the person is hurt or a dead weight, then two strong people need to help pick them up. However, if the person is able to get on their knees, then it works.
Thank you so much for this. It will help me when my mother falls again.
This video on helping someone up after a fall is outstanding. It shows step-by-step how to safely help them from a position on the floor to safely getting up. Thank you so much! Debra Seiling
Dealing with my father.. About 200 pounds.. parkinson's and back bone with tumors.. So almost zero use of legs. Although if he standing can use a walker a little bit. But when he falls, I have to dead lift him off the ground.. That is legs dangling in the air until he straightens them out. Looking for some sort of lift or device that will do the work for me.
Thanks for this helpful video. It helped me get my 200 lb Dad off the floor this morning! 🙏🏽
Okay, this only works if they understand what you are trying to have them do. My mother has severe aphasia with frontotemporal dementia and on the rare occasions when she does fall, she knows she wants to get up but she cannot follow what I'm saying to help her. The other thing is - this really only works for a relatively thin person. Helping someone lift their hips from deadweight to a kneeling position is very difficult, especially if the patient does not understand what you're doing.
Great video, thanks.
I love ❤️ this video . I never thought about..
This may help for someone that doesn’t have bad knees! My lady can’t bend her knees much less put any weight on her knees to crawl either. Getting her up after a fall no easy task
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This isn't a bad technique IF the person has the strength to get on his/her hands and knees. Just be sure before you roll them that the arm they are turning on is tucked as far beneath them as possible. That way, as they roll up and over it, the arm doesn't get caught under them.
What if she is overweight, with knee problems, shoulder tears and spinal problems. She keeps falling and i can't exactly just pull her up from her armpits since she yelps in pain. And i end up letting go of her. Before, i usually just pull her back up after a fall. She falls a lot of times.... And she would always chase me away since my methods are too brutish :V. Mind you, all other methods are kinda hard to implement since her arm movements are kinda not the same anymore, and her knees dont work the same either.... I don't understand though, i did the put her back on feet method easily b4 and she never complained.... Nowadays, The moment though i start putting her up she says ouch.....
The patient may have severe aphasia, or dementia, and not be able to follow verbal prompts --
We helped someone up whose wheelchair was running away by itself and the chair bumped onto the side walk and he fell onto the grass. His carer was elderly and I don't think was copi G. They asked us to help him up which we did. He was a dead weight with muscular disttopgy. We cod of easily pulled our backs. Thinking about it he should of been checked. We maybe shod of asked for ambulance? He hurt his side when he fell. I felt so sorry for him as he was young and visibly shaken.
They say call 911 if assistance is needed that means if it's dead weight call for help.
This really helped. Thank you
My mother slipped off of her bed yesterday. She is very feeble and has had a shoulder replaced and this method would not really work for her. My nephew came over and we lifted with a blanket onto her bed and that worked very well. Then I ordered an inflatable bed for $50. If she's on the floor again I'll work it under her and then inflate it. It's supposed to go to 18 inches and her bed is 22 inches, so I think it will work.
This just happened to me literally 20-30 minutes ago, and my situation is surprisingly similar. My mother has had two surgeries after breaking her left shoulder. Not sure if it was totally replaced but I believe so. She fell out of bed onto her broken shoulder side but luckily no damage to her shoulder, although she has very thin skin and scraped her elbow and chin and bled like a stuck pig... I have no experience with taking care of disabled people so this was just terrifying for me. Her legs are basically useless unless she's in a standing position or goes from sitting from a chair or her bed, but she was in a sitting position on the floor so It was just near impossible for me to lift her up as I'm not strong enough and I didn't want to hurt her healing shoulder. It was such a hassle but I got her up to sitting on her bed and cleaned up the mess and what not. I agree this method wouldn't exactly apply to her because of her only having use of one arm. I also don't have anybody else to help me. I assume you have more experience with caring for a disabled person so I hope you may have any tips for the next time this happens, because she said last time "this won't happen again, I lost my footing" and making all kinds of excuses to save some of her dignity I suppose. But I knew last time wasn't the last time and this time was even worse so I'm just terrified to leave her alone. Again, any tips would be great because once she's on the floor she's literally dead weight and I'm not equipped to effectively handle a situation like that. I hope you and your mother will have better luck in the future.
john papple After I wrote my earlier entry I ordered and received an air bed. It was a Intex Comfort Plush twin sized air bed, if you want to know. Less that $50 with free shipping. A few days later I went to the grocery in the middle of the night. When I got home I found my mother on the floor. She didn't seem to be otherwise injured. I suppose you should call the paramedics if you have any doubt if there is an injury. But if you think she is okay and you just need to get her off the floor, the air bed worked very well. I opened it up and laid it out flat and maneuvered my mother onto it. I plugged it in and turned on the built-in switch and it started to inflate. My mother didn't like the noise, of course. She was too close to the edge and it was going to roll her off so I had to deflate it and get my mother settled into the middle of the air bed. After that it worked like a dream. It elevated her to a level much like her own bed. I could stand her up and turn her and sit her down on her regular bed. My mother is not "dead weight" but I'd say she is only slightly able to help me. I imagine if my mother was totally helpless I could have had a sheet under her on the air bed and pulled her on the sheet over to her own bed. It's much easier with two people. There are helpful videos here on how to give care to the disabled. Keep looking for them until all your questions are answered. I just bought a gait belt. Look at videos about using a gait belt and see if that sort of support of your mother would work for you. I haven't really tried mine yet. If you know a place in the floor where your mother might fall you could put a cushion or a foam mat on that spot on the floor, if you don't think it would trip her up. Like along side the bed if you think she might roll off. On my mother's bed there is a handhold that has feet on the floor and is held close to the bed by bars that slip under the mattress. It is like a mini-rail that can be used as a hand-hold, and it would also stop her from rolling off the bed.
I have the same issue with my grandfather. His one arm is useless due to having his dialysis shunt in it. When he falls I bring a chair over, have him get on his hands and knees, then prop his body to chair, then I help him lift himself up by putting his working "good" arm around my neck & do a 1-2-3 UP. It's worked so far for us. It is hard when you're only working with one arm on a fragile person.
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What do you do if patient has just had knee surgery and can't crawl.
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Call an ambulance
You can also purchase a hydraulic lifting device to lift someone, but it sells for more than $400.00.
Good, helping video
The method in the video would only work if there is furniture nearby. A better way is to get the person in a sitting position, then from back put both of your arms under their arms and then lift them onto their feet. Hold them their for a minute until the regain their balance.
My 88 year old neighbor fell today with me right there and I did t know how to help her up! I am so upset I should of been
Prepared. She grabbed the sink and I helped pull her up under her arms and I have a bad back and I hurt myself now.
Luckily she is ok but I can’t pick her up with my weight cause of my back
How about someone knee doesn’t bend ? It’s hard many seniors don’t have good knees . Poor people even over weight , in hallway there is no bed or chairs , how they stand even if they fail in washroom ?.? It’s sad
ye i had to lift my great grandmother who's 98 and weights like 70kg... of course she has no strength to help whatsoever and is total dead weight... i tried to lift her from behind by hooking my arms under and around her armpits but it was clumsy af since I could only lift her up to my chest this way and it was also a bit painful to her... so she landed on the bed on her side... then it was a bit of awkward dragging... in the end i don't think she was rested comfortably... but what can i do... she has very little strength left, i don't think she will survive this year...
I just had to lift my 78 yr. old dad. Did the same arm hook thing. It hurt my heart not to be able to do it gently. I don't think it'll be much longer either. You struck a cord.
Always get the person to turn their face in the direction they're rolling. It's more natural for tjem and easier for ypu, as it shifts tje weight of their upper body to help you.
All video show putting them on their knees what about if there knees aren't good at all and can't knee?
What if they weight 300lbs and have just had shoulder replacement surgery?
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When there is dead weight it's hard to pull someone up did it several times no help at all
250 lbs of dead weight, Arthritis throughout the body. Not able to crawl, weak arms and legs.... give me a break, how do you get them up? Question: how do you stop them from falling off the edge of their bed. I once heard that a swimming noodle tucked into the fitted sheet would help. Anyone tried this?
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Bonnie Smith I recommend bringing a physical therapist or occupational therapist to evaluate and determine the most appropriate adaptive equipment for them, but a short answer is an antiroll mattress, assuming they are able to get in and out of it.
What is the person can not put weight on their knees? This method will NOT work.
What worked for me …I had two sturdy stepstools to use after I went to retrieve something under kitchen cabinet. Nuh-uh…..not today. Not enough arm strength. So…I butt scootched five feet over to basement stairs.
Voilà . Well, as long as this stairway handrail is here, I may as well use it.
Some will say, can’t butt skootch. Learn. Anyone who can turn in a bed can inch-worm along the floor.
Standing up is a lot of strain. Much easier if they raise themselves and you slide a chair in behind them. They can then drop their weight back onto the chair and get themselves comortable and relaxed, before they then stand from the chair.
I live alone and need to figure out how to get up alone if I fall. I can't get on my knees and crawl. Not even a second on my knees. Absolute excruciating pain.
Thank you.
This didn't work for me because my mother's legs, knees aren't strong enough. She also has back problems. She is 90 and seemed helpless. I had to call a male neighbor to help lift her with no help from from her. I need to get in shape to dead lift 275 lbs I guess.
My mom had the same issue. I bought a bath lift chair for $100. It is battery powered and not heavy at all. It does the same thing $2000 lifts do. But, it's also waterproof to use for a bath. I got it used from offer up.
What if the person has 2 knee replacements and can kneel on those knees because of the pain ?
I'm really strong and lifted my 160 pound mother to my shoulder, but now my shoulder is sore.
We got another muscle man here folks
What if they are unable to crawl?
Great demonstration!
Question, do subscribers have permission to use your video for their company’s training purposes?
What is they fall and the knees are the reason they can't get up
"Call your doctor, 911, the Highway patrol, and completely over-react.", just don't sue us.
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Looks easy but if the patients doesnt want to cooperate ..its difficilt to help him.
Doesn’t work with dead weight OR with someone who can’t move or bend their legs
Excellent!!
How about someone who is dead weight and can’t process instructions?
How did I get here?
This doesn't work for everyone. My mom is 96. She fell and broke her left femur in 2018 and has now has long rod and screws in it. She can't bend that leg or kneel. Occasionally when she falls, usually backwards, she needs to be lifted. I am not strong enough so have to call 911.
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200 lbs of dead weight on a person who doesn’t have much strength in there legs is very very difficult. Especially if you have wood floors and every type of furniture aide just slides away
Its better not to move for someone Who fell esp.elderly. Call 911 instead. There might be a fracture.Movement will aggravate fracture.
Hence the need for individual risk assessments. Not everyone likes them (especially in the UK) but lifting pants could prove useful in this situation.
risk assesments are fine provided that actually result in something, aside from a pile of paper. What the hell are lifting pants?
my father in law fell yesterday and he weighs 191. and I picked him up I bent with my knees and then booth of us came up together.
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Wish I found this a few minutes ago. Edit: He was dead weight. I don't have the training to deal with that yet.
Alcohol is annoying at times.
This is meant for a healthy person to lift another oerson that is close in weight tj the lifter
Wow, beautifully done.
I'm unsure about rolling someone onto their arm, surely that's going to be uncomfortable. Perhaps moving the arm on the side that the person is rolling onto might be more comfortable for them and easier for them to move the arm once they are on their front (a little bit like putting them into the recovery position). Using chairs at the head and the feet of the person maybe a good idea instead of making them crawl to a place to get themselves up (especially with arthritic knees).
Actually, if they are able to roll without pain and put their leg under them without pain and rise without pain, there's a good chance they're fine.
I work in Aged Care; if we called an ambulance every time someone fell, we'd need to have a garage...
We shouldn't move people without being sure, granted, but if they can move themselves with some guidance, then that's what we should be helping them to do.
The real world is somewhere theorists never venture.
"If the person is on their back" ?????
my classmate Saw me fall in the stair and Laugh and said to my classmate to Leave me and I cried
NEVER attempt to help an elderly person up if they have fallen. CALL an Ambulance!! Fractures and pain or other internal injuries may not be evident until the next day....even if they say they feel ok. U are not a doctor or have x-ray vision to determine whether or not ..there is an injury...but you could be responsible for making the situation worse...AND what if they fell because they had a quick mini stroke??...and you are helping them up because to U all seems well???...CALL an ambulance.
Or just get a hoist
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She wants to do more than help him up from his fall
This will never work
My mom just slipped
If they can't get themself into this position via verbal prompts only, something is very wrong.
If a person asks for help they are saying, "Can I borrow your muscles, mine are rubbish?" Hooking your arm under theirs is putting strain on these "rubbish" shoulder cuff muscles. They have already told you that their muscles are not up to the job. There is a raised risk of subluxation. Since 1982 in the UK this has been seen as an unsafe system of work and must be justified if something goes wrong.
If they have artificial knees, this is impossible!
A tutorial on what you should never do
This would work if their knees didn’t hurt and they had 2arms …and not demented. Not helpful to me, but thanks
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WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!
Placing your arm under the patient's ARMPIT MAY CAUSE SHOULDER DAMAGE TO THE PATIENT!!!
USE GAIT BELT!!!!
Nope nope nope never ever lift shift and transfer by pulling or lifting client by their arms. You’ve got to lift them by the torso and avoid breaking or dislocating arm or damaging fragile blood and lymph vessels in arm pit and inner arm. Please take down this video
One more useless video. Olderly are weak, stiff, bunch of health issues- no way lift like this. It’s a horse, no a person needing a help.
Just. Pick. Them. Up.
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Help me, I have fallen and I can't get up from all that cutteness! too cute.
Terrible advice.
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my father in law fell yesterday and he weighs 191. and I picked him up I bent with my knees and then booth of us came up together.
You could really hurt your back that way
Alright Nancy, we aren't all gym junkies like you
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