What Are the Best Mobility Aids and Equipment?

For many of us, mobility aids can offer welcomed support and assistance throughout daily life. Various aids, equipment and furniture that is specifically designed to help those with problems associated with mobility, whether through disability or age, can help reduce pain, anxiety and discomfort around mobility. This makes them hugely beneficial and something not to miss out on.

This guide covers some key mobility aids that you may want to explore in more detail if you have any problems with mobility. To learn more about how mobility aids and furniture can help your specific circumstances, please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team or download our brochure for more information.

Best Mobility Aids Around the Home

Our homes should be a place that make us feel comfortable and relaxed, so it’s important they are equipped to support mobility and make life easier. Luckily, mobility furniture, such as rise and recline chairs, and adjustable beds, are two great pieces of furniture to include in your home.

Riser recline chairs are designed to make it easier to get in and out of an arm chair, helping promote mobility and encourage you to move around more easily. The recline functionality also means you can change position and avoid being sat still for too long. Changing position and raising the feet can help avoid health problems such as back pain or poor circulation. Rise and recline chairs can be a simple but powerful addition to a home and help make substantial improvements to daily tasks.

Adjustable beds are also great at helping provide mobility assistance in the home. They can help encourage mobility with a click of a button and can mean those living with chronic conditions can often get a better night’s sleep. Adjustable beds come in a range of features and sizes.

For help choosing either a rise and recline chair, or an adjustable bed, discover our online brochure to help illustrate the benefits they offer.

As well as mobility furniture, there are several other mobility aids that can also make life easier around the home. Cutlery, mugs, plates and other kitchen items that have larger handles or tailored designs, making them easier to grip, can give some people more freedom again. This can often mean people become more empowered around their own home as they can grip daily items more easily. These can be small additions to the home but have a big impact on what someone can do day-to-day. Requiring less assistance or help is great for the elderly that still want some degree of independence.

Similar innovations can be seen in other products too, such as keys that are easier to turn, water bottles that are easier to hold, and adjustable handles that can make getting in and out of a car much easier.

Walking trolleys are also a great addition to a home for anyone who suffers from problems with mobility. These can make it easier to move around the home and can also help transport items. Similarly, walking frames with wheels can help support mobility and ensure someone can move around safety, without the fear of falling.

There’s also a lot of products for the bathroom that can help make it easier for someone to use the shower. Seats and supportive rails mean these daily tasks become more manageable.

Best Mobility Aids for Outdoor

As well as aids, equipment and furniture in the home that can help support and encourage mobility, there are lots of options to help support mobility outside the home.

A good place to start is with grab rails, located next to doors. These are useful to reduce the likelihood of bad falls when going up or down steps. Grab rails ensure a few steps entering the home doesn’t prevent someone who lives there not wanting to go outside due to struggling with steps. Similarly, a ramp is another option, which may be popular if someone relies more heavily on walking trolleys or frames. Ramps should have a very small incline though, to ensure it doesn’t put unnecessary pressure on joints as someone moves. A grab rail can also be placed near a ramp to offer extra support.

There are also “half-steps” that can make it easier to walk up a step by creating an additional step in front to half the size of the step. This can help if mobility around the joints in limited and someone struggles to lift their leg high enough for a certain step.

Once outside, mobility scooters or wheelchairs can help provide more freedom for those who struggle with mobility. Depending on the nature of the individual, these vary in features and price, so you’ll be able to find one that best suits your specific needs.

Walking sticks are also a popular option to provide additional support when walking. Modern walking sticks can often be adjustable or foldable. Tripod or Quadpod walking sticks can help take more weight and pressure, helping provide more support for those that may need it. This becomes particularly useful in older age, when mobility may become more challenging.

Getting Started with Mobility Aids

Whether older age or a health condition is affecting muscles, joints and flexibility and overall mobility, there are ways to limit pain and discomfort, at the same time as maximising your ability to be mobile.

Steps, inclines, uneven ground or even getting in/out of a chair, shouldn’t have limiting impacts on your day. Instead, it’s about finding mobility aids that can help provide the support necessary to overcome challenges and improve mobility.

For more information on how to get started, contact us here at The Mobility Furniture Company. We’re passionate about helping empower those who may have challenges associated with mobility and ensure they get the products and care required to live the life they want to.

Download our brochure today or contact our team to learn more.