Camel Lifting Cushion for Senior Living
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Camel Lifting Cushion
The Camel is an emergency lifting cushion designed to provide a safe, dignified lift and is recognized as a unique manual handling aid for professionals in a variety of settings.
Benefits of the Camel
The Camel has been designed to lift a person from the floor with the help of one person while reducing the risk of injury to both the medical professional and the person who has fallen. The inbuilt backrest gives a re-assuring chair-like quality and offers a fully supportive lift for a person weighing up to 700 lbs.
Who can use it?
The Camel lifting cushion is ideal for senior living personnel providing a key aid in aid for lifting in a pressurized environment. It is suitable for injured and non-injured individuals including:
- The elderly – 30% of adults over 65 will fall at least once a year. This rises to 50% in the over 80s.
- Residents with neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke, Alzheimer’s and dementia and Huntington's disease.
- Individuals with physical disabilities such as limited mobility or amputees.
- People with complex needs – the Camel is ideal for lifting anyone who may move around during a lift.
- Plus size or bariatric residents who face daily mobility challenges and will often find it difficult to get back on their feet when they fall – even though they are uninjured.
Special features
- With an inbuilt backrest, the Camel offers a fully supportive lift for a person up to 700 lbs. with minimal moving and manual handling requirements.
- Lightweight (weighing only 14.3 lbs) and can be used inside or outside in situations where many alternative lifting devices may not be suitable.
- The Camel is inflated using battery operated Airflo compressor.
How To Transfer A Fallen Resident On To The Mangar Camel
Our safe patient lifting range for senior living homes provide fast, dignified assistance for your residents and only require a single carer.
Camel Lifting Cushion for Senior Living
The Camel lifting chair will both sit up and lift a fallen person. With an inbuilt backrest and internal ring construction, the Camel offers a fully supportive lift that can be carried out entirely independently by the faller.
This product includes the Airflo 24 compressor.
| Max user weight: | 700lbs |
| Inflated Seat Height: | 21.5″ |
| Inflated Width: | 28″ |
| Inflated backrest width: | 24.5″ |
| Inflated seat depth: | 19″ |
| Inflated backrest height: | 32.5″ |
| Overall inflated length: | 44″ |
| Deflated rolled dimensions: | 30.5″ x 8″ |
| Weight: | 14lbs |
