Innovative Seating Solutions design to prevent falls and reduce the physical demands of caregivers

What's Missing?

The kitchen is the heart of the home. Today’s home modifications focus on the bathroom, bedroom, living room, and kitchen.

Unfortunately, one area overlooked in the kitchen is the importance of the kitchen table.

Question: How does a seated person get moved up to the table without risk of injury to the family caregiver?
Push, Pull, Shove, and Twist

In the kitchen...a family caregiver’s daily struggle includes pushing, pulling, shoving, twisting each time mealtime assistance is required.

Innovations designed to prevent falls and reduce the physical demands of caregivers include:

Innovation #1: Prevent Falls
Move the Chair...Not the Person

Innovation #2: Reduce the Physical Demands of Caregivers
Eliminate Table Interference

Innovation #3: Chair Caddie (Retrofit)
Attaches to the Base of Mom's Favorite Chair

The Trip Zone

The ‘Trip Zone‘ is the area around the front of table into which a person needing assistance must navigate. Trips and falls occur often in this area as both the senior and caregivers are expected to:

(1) shuffle sideways
(2) step backwards
(3) lean on the table

for balance as they are helped into the chair.