The Puj Snug is an ultra soft, bendable and adorable cover that fits snugly over the bath spout to help prevent bath time injuries.
When you learn that a friend or family member has to receive chemotherapy, your natural reaction is to want to know how you can make their lives easier during this period. You may offer rides to their therapy sessions, baby sit their kids or walk their pets, or bring over supper once a week. For those of you looking for items that can be used to prepare for chemotherapy sessions or to be used during chemo, here are 9 gifts that will be appreciated....
It's really hard for a machine to mimic a sprint. Treadmills come close, but it's hard to change pace and run all-out on a treadmill. Ellipticals confine you to a limited range of motion in your stride. However, the Keiser Air300 Runner gives you a range of motion in your stride and allows you to change your pace.
Show your tailbone a little TLC with this comfy donut cushion from Tokyo Otaku Mode designed to look like Rilakkuma, Japan's favorite cute character bear, who must have done something terribly bad in his previous life.
Simply sitting on a regular toilet to do your business doesn’t put you in the ideal position for thorough elimination. The Squatty Potty puts you in the perfect 35 degree angle to properly
evacuate your bowels.
When The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man series were aired on television, the bionics parts were still in the imagination of writers and producers and viewers. Now a bionic arm is close to becoming a reality (except for the fact
that it's not really bionic, because it doesn't have any sensory, motor
or electronic capabilities). The technology is in fact a basic pulley
system, implanted in a human hand, to allow for a more natural grasping
function while using less muscle energy.
Toyota has announced an integrated system for disabled passengers that better integrates wheelchairs with a range of its popular minivans. The “Well Chair”, introduced at the 2014 International Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition, is expected to be rolled out by the end of this year.
Mango Health just updated their app for medication adherence for iOS8, and it's worth taking a look. Set reminders to ensure you take your medication, see the side effects of your
medication, and potentially dangerous interactions between the medications you are taking, including your supplements. Win points for rewards and get notifications when you are running low.
A young scientist has invented a wearable sensor, SafeWander,
that alerts caregivers on their smartphones when their patients wander
out of bed. He invented it based on personal experiences with his own
grandfather who suffers from Alzheimer's and has started to wander.
Scientists at the University of South Florida's Byrd Alzheimer's
Institute have investigated the potential role of
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a major component of marijuana, on
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. What is most commonly known as a
recreational substance has demonstrated its potential in ameliorating AD
and other neurological diseases, perhaps because our bodies produce the
substance naturally (endocannabinoids) and have receptors that
naturally respond to it.