The Inside Story | Lifting and Transferring
Homecare E-News, September 21, 2015
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Caring for patients with limited mobility tends to involve a great deal of lifting. You may need to assist these individuals from the bed to chair or wheelchair and back again. At times, you may need to help someone up who has fallen onto the floor.
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