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    8 Top Tips For Travelling With A Disability

    Here at Mangar Health, we're passionate about ensuring everyone gets to live a full and exciting life. With that in mind, we've been speaking to Rob from The Bimblers about his top tips for travelling with a chronic illness or[...]

    Single Handed Care: Practicality vs Budget Constraints

    Deborah Harrison is a Manual Handling and Single Handed Care Specialist, as well as the Managing Director of A1 Risk Solutions. With a wealth of knowledge in the industry, we thought we'd ask Deborah what the best practices are for[...]

    The Beginner’s Guide To Working In A Care Home

    We’ve been talking a lot recently about what it’s like to work in a care home as part of our #UpLiftingCare campaign. As part of that we had spoken to our followers on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn who were working in the industry to[...]

    How I Learnt To Live With Chronic Back Pain

    Here at Mangar Health, we’re passionate about finding solutions to enable independence for people of all ages. We’ve been talking to Hayley about her chronic illness and how a young person feels when pain prevents her living life to the[...]

    11 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Mangar’s Slings

    If you’re only familiar with a few of our products then it’s most likely you know Mangar Health for their inflatable bathing cushions or patient lifting devices like the Camel or ELK. We are (of course) immensely proud of these[...]

    8 Things No One Warns You About When Working In A Care Home

    We don’t think you need to work in a care home to appreciate what a challenging, though rewarding, a job it is. Care home staff do a demanding job and do it well; making sure all their residents are treated[...]

    When Should And Shouldn’t You Lift A Fallen Resident?

    A question often asked in carehomes is when is it safe to lift an uninjured frequent faller using a lifting device like the Mangar Health Camel or Elk and when is it appropriate to call an ambulance. To help answer that[...]

    How My Chronic Illness Affects Those Around Me

    At Mangar it’s our mission to protect carers from injury and support their wellbeing whilst looking after others. With that in mind, we’ve been talking to Sarah, one of the UK’s top Chronic Illness bloggers, about how her illness. Here,[...]

    Four Ideas for Keeping Active in Old Age

    Here at Mangar Health, we spend a lot of time discussing what happens after an uninjured resident falls. We’ve written several posts on the matter, including the unspoken emotional impact for those that fall and the reasons why an elderly[...]

    Case Study: When the Inflatable Lifts Replace Bended Backs

    Introduction This project takes as its starting point the fact that approx. 1,700 times every year, an elderly citizen in the City of Copenhagen falls in their home and cannot get up again without help. Employees in home care are[...]

    Case Study: A Solution To Manual Handling In The Workplace

    Below you will find the full case study of how Surrey Ambulance Service introduced the ELK, one of Mangar Health’s Emergency Lifting Cushions. It includes the evaluation, rationale and arguments for implementing the Mangar ELK. Please note it includes some[...]

    The Top Five Calls All Care Home Workers Dread Making

    Here at Mangar Health we’ve nothing but respect for the thousands of dedicated individuals working across the country in the UK’s care homes, looking after their elderly residents. Care home workers do an amazing job day in, day out but,[...]

    6 Financial Costs Care Homes Could Easily Avoid But Don’t

    Here at Mangar Health we’ve been talking a lot lately about residents falling over in care homes. We’ve discussed how a fall can have a physical impact on an elderly resident and also how it can have an emotional/psychological one.[...]

    The Unspoken Emotional Impact Of Falling In Old Age

    Elderly residents falling in care homes and hurting themselves gets discussed a lot within the care industry, the immediate physical harm a fall can have, the damage that can be done from being left on the floor for too long,[...]

    6 Reasons An Elderly Resident Should Never Be Left On The Floor

    If you don’t support a loved one living at home or work in a healthcare environment, such as a care home or hospital where you interact regularly with people over the age of 65, then it’s unlikely you’ve had to[...]

    A Proper ‘Cuppa’ Proven To Reduce Dementia Rates by 50%

    Could staving off dementia in old age really be that simple? Recent research has revealed that the simple act of drinking a daily cup of black, green or oolong tea could reduce the risk of cognitive impairment in old age[...]
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