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How a Toilet Rail Helps You Sit and Stand in the Bathroom

How a Toilet Rail Helps You Sit and Stand in the Bathroom

A toilet rail is a metal frame surrounding the toilet that gives you stable arms to grasp and use for leverage when sitting down on or getting up from the toilet. 
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Best Soft Seat Stand-Assist Devices

Best Soft Seat Stand-Assist Devices

The Stand a Roo and the CouchCane are both excellent devices to help you stand up from a soft cushioned seat or couch.
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Best Hard Seat Stand-Assist Devices

Best Hard Seat Stand-Assist Devices

I chose the Carex UpLift and the SitnStand devices as the best devices for help sitting down and standing up from a hard chair.
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How a Couch Assist Helps You Stand Up from a Soft Chair or Couch

How a Couch Assist Helps You Stand Up from a Soft Chair or Couch

A couch assistance device gives you a set of arms to use for leverage when standing up. One type uses a loose cushion to hold it into place. Another type installs under a chair or couch leg. Both types give you a stable arm or two to use for leverage when standing up. 
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How a Seat Assist Helps You Stand Up from a Hard Chair

How a Seat Assist Helps You Stand Up from a Hard Chair

One type of gadget helps you to stand up from the couch, or cushioned chair. Another type of gadget helps you stand from a hard chair.
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How a Lift Chair Helps You Sit Down and Stand Up

How a Lift Chair Helps You Sit Down and Stand Up

When you sit down on a lift chair, you bend your legs less than when sitting on a regular chair. When you stand up from a lift chair, you need less leg strength than you do getting up from a regular chair. So the lift chair offers both standing and sitting assistance. Lift chairs are also recliners. Some have massage and heat. Some are “wall huggers” that don’t require a ton of room in the back to recline. Some recline to a horizontal position, and some only to about 140 degrees.
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Security for Independent Seniors

Security for Independent Seniors

Cameras, alarms and strategies to stay safe from external threats.
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Hobbies for Independent Seniors

Hobbies for Independent Seniors

Hobbies can be as simple as taking walks, and are essential to emotional and sometimes physical well-being.
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Activities of Daily Living for Independent Seniors

Activities of Daily Living for Independent Seniors

Products and strategies for dressing, eating and getting through your day when limbs and brains are not working at top speed.
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How to Buy a Pulse Oximeter

How to Buy a Pulse Oximeter

A good pulse oximeter has a Perfusion Index (PI) and an OLED display with large numbers. The PI indicates if you’re getting a bad reading but the pulse is weak. The OLED display is bright and easy to see.
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Best Vision Assistance Devices

Best Vision Assistance Devices

The best devices to enhance failing vision.
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Sleep Health for Independent Seniors

Sleep Health for Independent Seniors

The science and methods of good sleep.
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Hearing Devices for Independent Seniors

Hearing Devices for Independent Seniors

Gadgets and technology to enhance hearing and clarification.
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Fall Prevention for Independent Seniors

Fall Prevention for Independent Seniors

Falling is the most powerful enemy of independence. Aging in place experts have invented products and home layouts that reduce falls. You can help yourself too by removing bathroom rugs and using the stairwell handrail. Learn how to avoid falling to stay independent.
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Emotional Health for Independent Seniors

Emotional Health for Independent Seniors

Specific and actionable methods to deal with loneliness, depression, and self-care.
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