When it’s time to consider a stair lift for a senior you care about, it’s important to watch and steer clear of high pressure sales tactics—you know, the ones that half scare you out of your mind and make your favorite senior even more frightened to climb the stairs? There’s no need for that level of pressure.

If a chair lift company has a good product, has been around a long time, has an excellent standing with the Better Business Bureau, then they don’t need high pressure salesmanship to get their product in the door. You certainly don’t need to spend time listening to it either!

At Stannah Stairlifts, our company has been around since 1867. That means we’ve been helping people stay independent and safe in their homes for well over a hundred years. Our A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau is something we’re very proud of as well.

The stair lift you install in your home, or in the home of someone you love, is a product that is used every day, so it’s critical that it has to be a reliable and durable product. It’s important to choose a chair lift company that you can believe in, but it also helps when they offer excellent customer service.

Contact our team today for an in-home demonstration—not a high pressure sales pitch! You’ll see the difference immediately. Our employees are carefully chosen and trained to answer your questions and show you, and the one who will be using it, how a stair lift can improve your lives.

When someone is struggling with health or mobility issues that keep them from easily accessing other floors of their home, their enjoyment of their home and their ability to live independently is compromised. A stairlift can eliminate that sense of isolation and struggle and give a senior back their independence. Plus, you’ll know that they are safer navigating the house and our stairlifts even work during a power outage because they are equipped with a built in battery backup system.

If your senior lives in a home with narrow or curved stairs, we’ll manufacture a custom rail that works with the exact dimensions of their staircase.  The unique two-way swivel means that the senior can easily get the chair in the safest position at both ends of the stairs. So, if your senior has a classical, older home then you can rest assured that the Stannah team can fit a stairlift without any constraints, even if the area to work in is limited.

Contact our representatives to request a free brochure or to get a free, no-obligation quote and discuss installing a stairlift with the senior you love today. It’s a great gift for both of you because you know they are safe and they can regain some of their lost mobility.

As seniors and those who love and care for them work to recognize their current health risks while allowing for a gentle level of physical activity, it’s important to recognize that the stairs may simply prove too much. If climbing stairs is inhibiting your senior’s ability to get to their own bedroom, the bathroom, or another important room, then it’s time to eliminate that issue in favor of keeping them more generally active, and their heart healthier.

Installing a stairlift can remove the barrier that reaching a second floor room currently presents for your loved one. The installed stair-lift will not inhibit the ability of others to enjoy the same home and that stairway. A stairlift is installed on the stairs and provides a comfortable and safe solution ensuring that your senior still has access to all the benefits of healthy, active living.

Give our team of experts a call today for an in-home demonstration of how a stairlift can keep your seniors active, healthy, and living happily. With the stair problem out of the way, your senior can get back to the active things they love.

At times, however, age-related health issues such as failing eyesight, arthritis, heart conditions, and reduced muscular strength, can cause them to feel less than confident navigating the stairs. This is particularly the case if those stairs are narrow, curved or not well-lit. In these situations, it can be damaging to their sense of self-esteem if the house they live in has stairs that seem to conspire against their independent mobility.

There is an easy answer to the problem and it will get your senior back on track, climbing their stairs to their hearts’ content. Installing a stairlift can quickly restore a senior’s independence and their ability to safely enjoy their home again.

If you think your senior may need a little convincing (they may not), send us an email and we’ll put a free DVD in the mail to you. This DVD explains how a stairway lift works as well as provides examples (indoor and outdoor). You and your loved senior will understand how easy it is to operate, thus removing any hesitation about having to learn something new and complicated.

If you’ve noticed your loved senior having trouble navigating or climbing the stairs in their home, think about giving them a special gift this Valentine’s Day—a versatile stairlift to help them safely navigate to all floors of their home.

Because a stairlift is something they will rely on each and every day, and because you care about how people treat the senior you love, it’s important to choose a stairlift company you can honestly trust. You want to be sure that you are getting a high-quality product, reliable and friendly installation, and excellent customer service.

The fact is, Stannah Stairlifts are designed with excellent craftsmanship and we have more types of stairlifts than other providers. For example, our stairlifts are designed with a slim rail so that everyone can access the stairs, even narrow ones, with great ease.

Growing numbers of seniors are looking for active living programs that recognize their current health risks while providing an appropriate level of physical activity to challenge and work their bodies. Exercise serves as preventative care that helps reduce the common risk factors for heart disease, including elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It also works to reduce the risk of diabetes because the human body doesn’t have to produce as much insulin when the body is active. As a result, regular exercise reduces the body’s need to produce insulin just when the body’s ability to produce insulin may be compromised due to aging.

Regular exercise also reduces the risk of depression, and many seniors enjoy group fitness activities that are also social, such as heart-healthy walks with friends, local aquatic programs, tai chi, dancing, and yoga. All of these activities are good for the brain and help inspire feelings of well-being, quickly working to banish feelings of depression.

Keeping your senior active and involved in the community may sometimes involve a little home renovation. When seniors can get safely around their home, they have access to all the benefits of active living. Call our team of experts for an in-home demonstration of how a stair lift can help keep your seniors active, healthy and happy.

Family members may struggle as they watch a beloved parent, aunt, uncle or other family member who is affected by aging and want to keep them as safe as possible, but these needs may be in conflict with what the senior wants. If you notice that the senior you care about is struggling to move freely at home, to access upper and lower floors they used to inhabit often, then it’s time to consider giving them back the freedom of movement within their home.

A stair lift can be installed inside or outside the home and can give the senior an easy way to safely get to the other floors. It means that the senior can sleep in their own bedroom, even if that room is upstairs. It means they can do their own laundry, even if the washer and dryer are in the basement.

Contact our advisers to request a free brochure or to get a free, no-obligation quote. Installing a stair lift can ease your fears about them falling, and give seniors access to their entire home again. It can help keep them living independently, which is often their foremost desire.

When a relatively healthy senior who is otherwise capable of taking care of himself / herself suddenly has trouble with stairs, installing a chair lift can ensure safety and they can continue to live in the home.  If you suspect, but aren’t absolutely certain, that the senior in your life is struggling with climbing or navigating the stairs in their home, look for the signs. She or he may be unwilling to talk with you about it for fear of being encouraged to abandon their home for an unfamiliar living facility.

As they say, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. If you are concerned and want to discuss the topic of installing a stair lift with your senior, send us an email. We’ll mail a free DVD that will explain how the stairway lift works. Our video will show indoor and outdoor examples of the chair lift and show you and your senior how easy it is to operate.

It’s important to understand that your children may not be ready for this talk. They may choose to ignore the signs and be unprepared for the responsibility. Nevertheless, if you feel it’s time, then it’s time. Get in touch with your children and set aside a time when you can all chat together.

Next, prepare a list of notes ahead of time, and start with something small they can accomplish easily like working on a list of your medications and dosages and typing up the name of your doctor (or doctors). This way, if a medical emergency happens, they will be prepared to help the medical team as quickly as possible.

If you are finding it difficult to navigate to different floors of your home, talk with your children about the options available to you, including installing a stairlift. They can call us today for a free in-home estimate and be there to discuss the options, ask questions, and understand how it will work, so you have the support you need when the lift is installed.

Just as you guided your children and mentored them into adulthood and relative independence, as a senior, you may have to take them in hand and speak to them about your needs as you age.

The blues, or mild depression, is something nearly everyone fights at one time or another. Of course, mild depression in older people can often be missed, even by devoted caregivers. For seniors who are struggling with mobility issues or health problems, the struggle to move about the house can be a trigger for depression.

What works to cure the blues for one person may not work for another, but the following are some recommended tips for coping with senior blues:

1. Take care of yourself: get some exercise every day, eat the right foods, and get a little sunshine.
2. Spend a little time in your day doing the things you love. Love gardening? Even if it’s winter-time, you can start a small indoor garden and tend to it.
3. Call a good friend. Friends are important and they can often pull us out of a funk quicker than anything else will!
4. Remember your caregivers—especially around the holidays because doing nice things for others is often a great boost to how we feel.
5. Get busy and try something new. Cook a nice meal, try a new class, shake up the routine!

It’s important to understand that there is no single cause for the blues. Everyone is different, and for some a single event can bring on the mood change. For some people, different times of the year have different meaning and can shift their mood south. Being able to get around easily in your home with the help of a stair lift can go a long way to keep your spirits “uplifted”!