Transfers
Hi! My mom has been fighting ALS for nearly 6 years. The past year we have been picking her up every time she transfers (from bed to chair, chair to bed, chair to toilet, etc). She has not been able to use her legs to assist in transfers for nearly a year, nor do her arms have the muscles to assist in transfers either. She is about 110-100 lbs, but insist on still being manually transferred by us kids or caregivers. She refuses to use a hoyer lift because she doesn’t want to be dropped and thinks that any well trained caregiver should be able to lift her without issues. However, we are having a very hard time maintaining private home care staff because of dependent transfers. So in your opinion, is a hoyer lift more feasible or should we continue to manually transfer?