Ceiling lifts are an assistive device designed to enhance patient and caregiver safety, while providing comfort and mobility in both home care and healthcare settings. Consisting of a motorized lift system either mounted on fixed ceiling track or a gantry system, the primary role of a ceiling lift is to transfer patients from one location to another, such as from a bed to a chair / wheelchair, to a toilet, or to a bath.
Fixed Ceiling Lifts
Using an installed track system, Mackworth's fixed ceiling lifts promotes safe patient handling while allowing for mobility and caregiver safety.
Portable Ceiling Lifts
Portable ceiling lifts from Mackworth assist those with mobility challenges by allowing lifts and transfers with the use of a freestanding or gantry lift system.
Why Use Ceiling Lifts?
With the goal of safety and keeping people in their homes longer, a ceiling lift offers many benefits for a safer, more efficient, and more respectful care environment for both patients and caregivers. Below highlights several key benefits for using a ceiling lift for safe transfers:
- Reducing Risk of Injury – with the proper use of a ceiling lift, both patients and caregivers may minimize the risk of being injured while caring by reducing the need for manual lifting. Ceiling lifts can assist in the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries among healthcare workers and caregivers.
- Improving Patient Mobility – a ceiling lift may promote the safe and efficient transfer of patients, supporting those with physical disabilities or reduced strength.
- Enhancing Safety – supporting those patients that are prone to falls or other mobility injuries, ceiling lifts can be mounted to secure track systems or portable gantry systems for safe and effective patient handling.
- Caregiving Health Benefits – with the goal of promoting a safe work environment, ceiling lifts reduce the need for manual patient lifting, which allows the use of optimal work conditions, the promotion of ergonomic movements, and the reduction of physical strain on the body.
- Complying with Safety Standards – the use of a ceiling lift aligns with safety standards promoted by the American Nurses Association for safe patient handling and movement.
Get Mobility Help Today
At Mackworth USA, our focus is to make providing care easier for caregivers while their patients experience mobility comfort and safety with dignity. We invite you to speak with our team and put our 35+ years of patient handling expertise to work for you.
Who Benefits from Ceiling Lifts?
Various patients with various conditions or needs can benefit from the use of a ceiling lift with their everyday mobility needs. Ceiling lifts remain a way to maintain quality of life and keep people in their homes longer. Those who could benefit from the daily use of a ceiling lift includes:
- Those with limited mobility challenges due to conditions such as arthritis, stroke, degenerative disease, or spinal cord injuries can be safely transferred using ceiling lifts.
- Those patients who, post-surgery, need mobility assistance to avoid straining surgical sites while promoting health and healing.
- Those who due to the aging process may be unsteady on their feet or frail, which a ceiling lift can reduce falls and offer stability and support.
- Those suffering from neurological disease such as MS, Parkinson’s, or cerebral palsy and, as a result, live with mobility challenges that may require transfer support and positioning / repositioning assistance.
- Those whose body weight may challenge daily mobility where ceiling lifts designed for handling a higher weight class may support movement and special handling.
- Those suffering from chronic pain conditions where daily movement routines may intensify their pain.
- Those who may be rehabilitating and require more controlled movements and safe handling during physical therapy.
- Those caring for others that require moving and handling support.