Views: 22 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-04-15 Origin: Site
I hired a nanny to cook and clean for the old couple during the day. The old couple's pension is not small, and they insist that I not spend this money, always giving the nanny a paycheck and then specifically asking the nanny not to charge me. Although my brother lives very close to my parents' home and can go there to take care of them, I always feel a little guilty inside, especially when my son, who has just started kindergarten, calls me Dad after school every day. I always want to call my parents at home.
Last New Year's Eve, the company took a long annual holiday, so I gave the nanny an early break and prepared to go home to see and cook for my parents and take care of them, but when I got home I realized I didn't seem to know my parents anymore. My parents are getting older and their physical strength is diminishing. Usually they can go out and take a chair and crutches to sit inside the community, but now my father has to take two steps to walk from his bedroom to the living room, and he is particularly willful in not letting anyone help him. He has bought a power chair and can't push his arms for a couple of times.
As far as I can remember, on New Year's Eve 2017, my father, who had heard I was coming back for New Year's Eve, even ran to the mall and bought a bunch of groceries and beer, and laughed at me over drinks, telling me that he was as old as a young man at almost 70 and told me not to worry about the family.
In the Chinese New Year of 19, I stayed at my parents' house until the last day of my annual holiday before returning. All I could think of on the way back was my parents in their power chairs sunbathing in the neighbourhood. I happened to remember that my friend's father had a stroke last year and was unable to move half of his body. To make him happy, my friend bought an electric power chair to take him out.
When I bought the power chair, I asked the merchant to send it to my home to test it out before I sent it to my parents. I suffered a lot of pitfalls when choosing an electric power chair, so you must keep your eyes peeled, after all, electric power chairs are for people with mobility problems, so safety, quality and stability are all important.
Here's what to look for when selecting an electric power chair.
I. Tips for selecting an electric power chair
1. Price issues
I am not saying that the more expensive the better, but I am saying that those that are not much different in price from ordinary power chairs should never be chosen. I bought a few hundred dollars of electric power chairs when I didn't know about them at the beginning, but the quality was very ordinary, so to speak, and it was just a bad quality ordinary power chair that was electrified and was useless except for walking.
Safety and quality cannot be guaranteed, who can be assured that such electric power chairs can be used by the elderly?
However, it does not mean that expensive means good, we still have to select the purchase according to our budget, and the filial piety is delivered while the safety of the elderly is protected.
2. Functional aspects
In terms of functionality, the focus is on a few points: brake technology, whether the tyres are explosion-proof and anti-slip, comfort technology and body structure. Let's talk about these one by one.
Braking technology: Most electric power chairs use electromagnetic brakes, which automatically brake when the hands do not control the direction. It is easy to operate and safe.
Tyre explosion-proof and anti-skid: This is very important, explosion-proof and anti-skid tyres are absolutely necessary to select an electric power chair safety in the first place.
Comfort technology: Comfort includes many things, such as seat material and backrest adjustment. But the main thing to look at is shock absorption. The elderly will inevitably go around the park, and some parks have very uneven dirt roads, so there is no way to take an electric power chair without a shock absorbing structure.
Body Material: The body material should be carefully selected. Not only is the body material directly related to the overall weight of the electric power chair, but safety also depends on the quality of the body material. Most of the electric power chairs on the market use light aluminium alloy to reduce the weight of the body while also ensuring the strength of the body, while very few use carbon fibre material to make the body ultra-light while also achieving superb strength.
3. Some details
The details include: range, automatic folding, etc. These mainly depend on personal needs, if the elderly at home love to go out, buy a strong range, if the home is small and inconvenient to place, choose the one with automatic folding.
The selection of an electric power chair must not be random, but must be done with care to ensure safety while bringing maximum comfort and happiness to the elderly.