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A better mousetrap, that’s what I consider this unique walking stick for us aging baby boomers. Ever since I crossed over to the ‘other side’ of sixty, I’ve noticed an increased need for mobility medical aids. That increased need has led me on a constant search for cool mobility products that will make my life much easier. Well, I have found that such product, a versatile, but not dorky looking, walking stick. I’ve come to realize that I’m not as mobile and stable as I once was. I’m finding it harder to climb stairs, or for that matter, just to walk distances without some form of support. The walking stick I recently read about is called the Slik-Stik. This item was designed by Denise Anstey, a disabled woman who was dissatisfied with the poor ergonomics and basic function of a conventional walking stick or cane. This is not your mama’s walking stick, far from it.

     She has taken the needs and a wish list for making this a high tech mobility product for us moderately high techified baby boomers. This Slik-Stik has a foldable stem, is adjustable in height, and has a rubberized non-slip hand grip that incorporates a loud panic alarm siren and controls to operate the on-board walking white LED lights and flashing red strobe lights for added night time visibility. Whew…….did you get all that?  I know this sounds like some type of Rube Goldberg kind of contraption, but I assure you it is one slick looking walking stick. Every component is molded into either the walking stick portion or the ergonomically formed handle. This Slik-Stik can be either charge by a conventional wall outlet plug set up, or with the on-board small winder handle that uses an induction generation system inside the handle. Wind this small handle for one minute and receive ten minutes of recharged battery life to power the lights and SOS alarm, it keeps it all working until you get somewhere to plug it into a standard electrical outlet.

     And did I mention that this all folds up compactly for carrying and storage? All in one small, versatile, compact, and useful package. That is what I would call a mobility medical product for those who need a little helping hand.

     Go check it out at : www.tclproducts.co.uk/ba7080.html

Till then.

I am and you’re not.

bizbark

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A personal tracking device for the mobility medical challenged individual.

     As we get older, we somtimes forget. And others forget that they are getting older.

But then there are older folks that totally and completely forget everything, including

where they are or should be. Thank goodness a South Korean company has invented a

mobility medical product  that will keep track, in real time, of the location of our

wandering loved ones. We hear/read too often about an elderly person who has gone

missing from their home, and they just show up hundreds of miles away and don’t have a

clue as to how or why they got there. I used to call this condition ‘old timers’ disease, but

since I’ve gotten on the ‘other side’ of sixty I know now that it’s called Alzheimer’s.

My young daughter just calls me OLD, for short.  Jeesh, no respect for your elders anymore.

     This new mobility medical aid is a tracking device which can be attached to a collar/belt or

can be purchased as a wrist watch. Both device types include an emergency SOS button that

can be activated by the wearer, if needed. Both model include a rechargable Li-ion battery

that has a 72 hour life before the need for charging. The tracking part uses theFreeware

GPS tracking software from Google Maps, so there’s never a monthly fee to pay.

That’s a huge bonus for this device. Progress or location reports can be sent to a PC, PDA,

or cell phone. How convenient is that!  Here’s what this tracking device will do: follow an

individual in real time, and show you the exact location where your loved one is,

whenever you want, where ever you are.  By the use of a GPS enabled cell phone.

     You can even set a Geo-Fence to send you an alert if the wearer goes past a

pre-determined boundary. An example would be if they wander off one block past their

home , then an alert would be sent to notify you that they have crossed

the set boundary limit. It’s almost like having a 24 hour, around the clock

sentry for your loved one. There are many types of mobility aids to help us

baby boomers, and this just happens to be a semi high tech gadget that will

give you major peace of mind. Gettin’ old is starting to look better and better,

especially with these mobility medical products coming into the marketplace.

     Do you think I could attach one of these to my car keys……….

For more information, head on over to:       www.cuman.co.kr

Till then.

I am and you’re not.

bizbark

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     Mobility medical has finally gotten it’s chariot. If you are a baby boomer then you remember the movie ‘Ben Hur’ and the famous scene with Charlton Heston and the chariot races. At the time that was pretty amazing cinematography , and for that time it was considered special effects. But truth be known, the film was actually sped up to give the impression of going much faster. Let’s think about this….like it wouldn’t be fast enough if you were in one of those little chariots, being pulled by a rather spooked horse, all the while just holding on to the reins while standing up in a glorified wheel barrow. Come on. That was exciting.

     Oh, I almost forgot the real reason for this article on mobility medical products. I just read a story about a mobility product for the disabled that resembles a Segway that has a tall barrel mounted to the foot platform. The individual is able to ’stand’ in this barrel and be strapped into it, for support of the back and spine. As strange as this sounds, this mobility product actually resembles one of those chariots in ‘Ben Hur’. This allows amputees and others with paralysis of the lower extremities to be in an upright position and still move about. And wouldn’t you know it, they came up with a catchy name for this mobility medical product, the Chariot. Body movement, leaning and tilting is registered as the control commands. Plus, by being at this elevated height gives the ‘rider’ the ability to see and reach items that a person in a wheel chair couldn’t because of the low seating position. An added bonus is the ability to be at eye level with able-bodied individuals, increasing the self esteem of the disabled individual.

     Go check it out, it’s a very exciting mobility medical product for the disabled. More information can be found by searching for the Exmovere Company.

Till then.

I am and you’re not.

bizbark

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Mobility medical ideas come from many resources. Surfing the web, and I do mean surfing since I live in Southern California, I ran across a rather exciting web site. Chocked full of relevant information on mobility products, therapies for the older generation, and way cool medical mobility products to make life so much easier for those aging baby boomers, like myself.    Enjoy the site…..

Till then.

I am and you’re not

bizbark

Here’s the site :    www.asksara.org.uk

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This mobility medical site is always looking for unique gadgets for the mobility impaired crowd. Well, I found a really good one today. It’s hard enough for older able-bodied baby boomers to ride a bicycle for any distance, so you can imagine how hard it must be for those with severe disabilities to conquer a bike.

Now imagine for amoment that you only have one leg, how difficult that must be to pedal a bicycle. This ingenious person invented and designed a rather unorthodox bicycle that you actually push/glide while seated in a sling-type seat. The seat is adjustable to allow the rider to just barely reach the pavement with his or her foot, or feet, if that is the case. This mobility product just sorta looks like a bicycle, in that it has a front and rear wheel, and a typical handlebar set up. Now take away the frame that normally supports the seat post, and substitute that with a sling looking contraption. Now add a round tubular bar that goes over the bike rider from the rear sprocket to the front forks, this gives the bike the rigidity that the needed since part of the frame was removed to make room for the new type seat. This is one weird looking conveyance, but it works.

The rider simply pushes themself forward with a foot , then glides along until the foot can maneuver to the starting point again. Push, glide, repeat.  Push, glide, repeat.  Push, glide, repeat.  Push, glide, repeat.

Get it? Folks that hadn’t ridden a bike in years because of amputations are now able to enjoy the freedom of the open spaces. People with hip injuries or recent hip replacements are able to get up and out to exercise. This is a true mobility medical product to assist the injured and infirm to get much needed exercise.

If you’re interested to see one in action, head on over to : www.glidecycle.com       

Thanks for stoppin’ by.  Till we meet again.

I am and you’re not.

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Mobility medical products come in many forms, for a variety of uses and needs. I just read about a writing pen designed especially for left handed persons. How, you ask, does that constitute as a mobility medical item? Well……..what if you are normally a right hand dominate writer, and you just happen to fall and break your right wrist? What’s the chance of you having to write something while your right hand heals? Only about 100% chance, that’s all. Let’s do a little test right now. All you righties pick up a pen in your left hand and try signing your name to something. If you’re like me ,you are going to write something that looks like a first grader, at best. Would you believe that there are over a billion persons with a preference for using their left hand? That’s a huge number of people who have learned to adapt in a right handed world. The pen is regarded as mankinds’ most important tools, if I say so myself. Ever heard of the phrase, ‘ the pen is mightier than the sword ‘? If not, you have now. Not that you will ever have to fend off someone with a pen, I’ld still take the sword for that function.

The Swan Neck Pen is an amazingly simple design, which uses a patented S-bend neck, hence the Swan Neck designation. The pen is said to be easier to hold and can be picked up and used with zero learning curve. The goal of the inventor is to get the pen issued to schools as a standard piece of writing tool.

I personally thing that this new writing instrument should be made available at all nursing homes and Hospitals, as that’s where you’ll find the injured elderly in need of this mobility medical product. For those of you want to learn more about this neat new item, head on over to :  www.swanneckpen.com

I think I’m going to get one, just in case I need it.  You never know.  It’s hell gettin’ old.  They lied.

Talk to you soon.

Till we meet again, I am and you’re not.

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I found a rather unique mobility medical product that I think you should know about. Typically this site is for products that ‘us’ elderly would benefit from, but this product is marketed to parents of new born babies. Now stay with me, as I read the article about this product I immediately thought this would be a perfect product for the elderly, and for that matter, just about anybody that is facing a medical emergency.

Think back for a moment to the last time you were faced with a true medical emergency….how clearly were you thinking? Probably not very, which is typical for the circumstance occurring. That’s why I thought this piece of medical equipment was ideal for medical emergencies.

This product is called the SafetyMate, marketed to parents of new borns, that in an emergency situation could have a hand-held device that contains first aid advice that would instruct them in what to do or perform in the way of medical attention. And the really cool part of this product is that once you open the lid to this hand-held device it starts TALKING. It’s a clever talking first aid device that gives essential health advice at the touch of the button.

SafetyMate begins speaking as soon as the lid is opened. The user selects one of the eight emergency buttons and is led through a sequence of yes/no questions with the most important first-aid information provided first. The user can then follow the first-aid steps depending on the particular health problem.

The unit provides advice on eight common health problems including CPR, burns, choking and allergic reactions. The eight emergency buttons lead the user to over 30 health issues.

Retailing at USD $60. the battery-operated unit is hand-held and lightweight (approx. 12 ounces) as well as water resistant.  The unit contains a SD Flash Memory card and medical updates can be downloaded directly form the website :  www.safetymate.com

I originally found this news item on www.gizmag.com     Author, Jude Garvey

Go check this out, this mobility medical product could save a life.

Talk to you soon.  Till we meet again, I am and you’re not.

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They said getting old(er) was going to be easy. Well, they lied. At least there are numerous mobility medical products for us aging generation. I thought I had it bad, but I recently realized that I’ve actually got it somewhat better than those older than me. I visited my elder 89 year old Aunt at her assisted living home several weeks ago. She is one of the fortunate few, if you can really call 89 fortunate. At least she’s this side of the grass. My family calls her Aunt Bagel, because her name rhymes with bagel, and well, we’ve just always called her that. She gets along just fine using her little ‘mobility walker‘ that has the standard-issued tennis balls under the wheels. They just never seem to loose that alien space ship yellow color, no matter how many times I take her out for a walk. She’s not the problem, or should I say she’s not the one with the major medical problems associated with getting older. At the mess hall, where everyone feels that they have to eat at exactly 11:43 a.m., you’ve never seen so many mobility scooters, wheel chairs, and every kind of mobility conveyance in all your life. Half of them are either lined up in a neat little row, or the other half are parked in the dining room aisles like obstacles to run over. In a sweet way, it’s kind of cute.

The other jarring matter is the tone, or should I say loudness, of the entire area. If you haven’t lost your hearing before you go ther, then you certainly will once you settle in for a spell. Shout, huh, what, not now, where, oh alright…… I should set up a concession to either sell hearing aids, repair and/or supply batteries, or rent ear muffs to the truly good of hearing. I feel just a little bad when I play tricks on the elderly there, such as to ‘mouth’ my words instead of actually speaking them. Iknow, I know, someday I’ll be in that situation and probably won’t like it. But hey, it really is fun, and you know you’re smirking over this confession. Admit it.

One last observation that is glaring, or should I say odiferous? And that is the overwhelming smell of BenGay. What is up with that?! Does everbody own stock in Johnson & Johnson? There couldn’t be a more plausible explanation for that over-riding smell. But God Bless them all, if that’s all it takes to keep putting one wheel in front of the other, then I guess I could overlook that olfactory experience.

So the next time you’re confronted with a mobility medically challenged person that shouts and smells bad, just think of the alternative………..Ummm, ummmmm good.

Till we meet again, I am and you’re not.

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It was a sad, sad, sad day. And night, for that matter. Yours truly, Mr. Mobility Medical crossed over to the other side. No! Not that side. I am now oficially on the ‘other side’ of 60. Ouch.  I suppose I better be thinking that it’s the good side, you know. For years, as that moment was quickly approaching, I often wondered how I would decide to celebrate or mourn THAT day. I often thought that I would attempt a tandem skydive from a ridiculous altitude. Or possible go off on a wilderness hike way up in the Sierra’s. Or try to set some obscure world’s record, such as crawling backwards from coast to coast. Or circumnavigate the earth in a hot air balloon. Or learn Italian and sing in an opera, off key, of course. Or, or, or, or, or.  The list can/could go on for ever, at least in my mind. There was a movie recently with Jack Nicholson that he referred to his aging, to-do list as his ‘bucket list’. Well, here’s what I pulled out of my bucket to celebrate. I opted to spend the better part of the day in almost complete silence. Let me explain. I was a bachelor for most my life, as I got married when I turned fifty. Can you say ‘late bloomer’? God bless my wonderful wife, as I was getting older I had become just a little set in my ways, and she still decided to marry me. THEN, we decided (actually my wife did) to have a kid. And we did. A mean little girl, just like her mother. Nah…….not by any stretch of the imagination is my little girl mean. And neither for that matter is my wife. My sweet, beautiful, talented, and smart little girl just turned 17, errr, I mean 7 years old. Now let’s be realistic here. Doesn’t everyone who has kids think of them that way?! For once Il’d like to hear someone introduce their child as ‘my ugly and dumb kid’. Well, we all know people that have those kinds of kids, don’t we. Do you think they know it?   Anyway, back to the real story. I’ve worked in sales all my life, and I still do. So all day I talk/listen, talk/listen, talk/listen…….you get the picture. Then I come home and guess what? Talk/listen, talk/listen, talk/listen, etc.   To make this long story short, my ‘bucket’ was overflowing for want of silence. No sound whatsoever. To some that may not seem like a lot of fun, but it was heavenly. Oh, and then I took the family to my daughter’s favorite Sushi place for dinner. Then, of course, a good ol’ Disney movie to top it all off.  Ahhhhhh, to be 60 again! What started off as a sad, sad, sad day, actually turned out to be the BEST day of my life. Just don’t remind me that 61 is coming.

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Sometimes in life, reality rears up and smacks you in the face. Well, that’s exactly what is happening to me right now. I’m one of those Baby Boomers, who until recently, didn’t really consider himself getting older. It’s amazing how kind the mind is when you let it. I’m pushing 60, so close to it I’m about to be on the other side of it. It’s getting harder everyday to crawl out of bed and to do the simplest of activities. That’s whats got me  thinking about mobility medical information and products. I’ve done had the open heart surgery, the gall bladder removal, and the back just isn’t the same any more. In fact, I’m seriously thinking about renting one of those mobility scooters the next time I go to an amusement park or a State Fair. For that matter, for just about anywhere I need to walk for long distances. The plus side of that thinking is twofold: First, it appears that younger people take a little pity on the “poor old guy” in the scooter and get out of your way. Second, you get to cut in line. Is that cool, or what?! That being said, why can’t I take advantage of all the new technology and products that are being brought to this market, to address exactly my kind of needs? That’s why I decided to create this web site, to search-out all the cool new ideas, gadgets, products, and even foods that will make my “later years” just a little bit easier. After searching the web for some specific products to meet my specific needs, and not being able to find the solutions in one concise spot, I decided to put all mobility medical products in a central location. A kind of “one stop” search site. I know, to some of you 60 isn’t very old. And I suppose some of you are right, especially those of you who are pushing 100. But I guess age is relative anyway. Brain and thinking wise, I don’t seem old. Just don’t ask my body, as it has a mind of its own. It is my hope that others feel the same way and would like to contribute ideas, products, and content to this site. Please feel free to make suggestions as to what you would like to see here.

Stay tuned, much more to come.                                     

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