Patient Lift and Home Equipment Rental in Bearspaw

Going home to Bearspaw

A discharge from Foothills to Bearspaw is a short drive, but the equipment involved is often the kind that takes the most preparation. After spinal cord, brain injury or neurological rehabilitation, the therapy team may recommend a full sling lift or a sit-to-stand lift, a hospital bed with the right height range, and a clear route between them. Ask the team for the recommendation in writing, including the sling type if one is named, and send it to us before the discharge date. We will confirm what is in stock and book a delivery that arrives with time to set up and walk through the first transfer with you.

Rocky View County maintains about 1,600 km of gravel road, and its 14 graders work on three-week rotations, so if your road is gravel it may be rougher late in that cycle than just after grading. That does not stop a delivery, but it helps to tell us about your road and your lane. For home care, Community Care Access is the central intake for Calgary Zone Home Care. Anyone can make the referral with the patient’s agreement, and Home Care charges no fees for professional or personal care services.

Homes here, and what fits in them

Bearspaw homes are mostly single-detached houses on acreages; across Rocky View County, 93% of occupied homes are single-detached. Where the house is roomy, that helps with lifts. A floor lift needs space to roll up to the bed, open its base and turn toward a chair, and a big main-floor room or primary bedroom often has it. What slows things down is carpet, which makes a loaded lift harder to push, and changes of level between rooms. Before delivery, tell us the floor surfaces on the route and whether the bedroom and bathroom are on the same level.

The other thing to plan is power. Our patient lifts run on rechargeable batteries rather than a cord, so a transfer does not depend on an outlet in the right place, but the battery does need a spot to charge between uses. On the Drive lift, the unit will not operate while it is plugged in; on the Invacare Reliant, the spare battery charges in a wall station. We show you the charging routine at setup, and we check that the doorways between the bed, the chair and the bathroom are wide enough for the base.