At ComforTek Seating, we design and manufacture furniture specifically for the hospitality, convention, worship, healthcare, and assisted living markets. Early in 2014, we began developing our Titan series, a furniture line for healthcare, rehab, therapy, and assisted living, giving specific attention to caregiver needs.  Read More Why we started focusing on caregiver needs, not just user needs

The physical demands on a caregiver increase daily. Whether it’s assisting a person transferring into a bed, lifting them into a tub/shower, or moving them to a table for a meal or family activity, caregivers are constantly challenged to perform these efforts without injuring themselves.

Front line caregivers often provide high levels of care to persons whose weight may be more than twice their own weight. Unless technology is incorporated into the facility, the caregiver can provide care to only the level of their own physical strength and wellbeing. Once they breach that threshold, caregivers risk injury.

Our Titan products reduce caregiver injury, improve caregiver effectiveness, and increase user mobility in 3 specific ways: Read More Why we design aging in place products with the caregiver in mind

For caregivers, they, too, endure a sense of helplessness: often there’s nothing they can do to improve the situation for their aging loved one.

Caregivers frequently lack the physical strength to adjust or move a seated person to a place of greater comfort or enjoyment. Without some mechanical means, even the most cherished of bonding times—a family meal, an afternoon coffee or working together on a Christmas puzzle—cannot be enjoyed together, as there’s no easy way to get everyone up to the table.

Luckily, because we at ComforTek always try to be in the forefront of manufacturing innovative assisted living furniture, we’ve created innovative products, ranging from chairs to tables, that help your loved one keep their independence, dignity, and self respect. Read More 3 assisted living furniture that make caregiving easy

In today’s world, our population is aging and more people want to age in their own homes. Here are 4 reasons that create unique challenges for aging adults: Read More Why elder care today is unlike any other time

Daily challenges experienced by all family members in charge of providing care are:

1. How does a seated person move to and from the table?
2. How does a person using a walker or rollator sit at a table? With at least a measure of grace and dignity?

Unfortunately, the response most commonly expressed to both of these challenges remains: with great difficulty!

Not everyone can get to the table. What most of us take for granted is a major obstacle for others. For some, age has diminished their ability to scoot a chair forward; for others, an illness has deprived them of the coordination to perform this task. What’s needed is not more effort on behalf of a family member or caregiver but the use of technology that enables this to occur. Read More 2 daily challenges that caregivers struggle with