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How to Get Active and Keep Your Body Moving As we get older, we may use our bodies less or take part in fewer sports and recreational activities. However, as you age, it’s even more important to ensure you keep your body moving and stay active. After all, our bodies are meant to move and…

How Stairlifts Can Support People with Dementia If you have a friend or family member with dementia, you may be wondering how you can better assist them during the stages of dementia. There is a range of ways to care for and look after someone who suffers from this illness that can help ease some…

There are a wide range of conditions that may require you to install a stairlift in your home. These can range from arthritis to osteoporosis. While it varies case by case, muscular dystrophy is a condition that can severely affect a person’s mobility. It is estimated that 70,000 people in the UK suffer from some…

Osteoporosis is a common disease that many older people may not even know they have. However, weakened bones can cause the sufferer to experience fractures easily. This can make getting around difficult and uncomfortable because of the pain or loss of mobility. While the disease does not directly cause reduced mobility, someone suffering from osteoporosis…

A stair lift is an efficient as well as affordable way for people with limited mobility to move between the floors of their home. It offers not only convenience but it can restore independence for those who stopped using the stairs as well. To ensure that you get a good understanding of how stair lifts…

Losing your life partner is a devastating time and it can feel hard to keep going. It’s something that many people face in their lifetimes but regardless, still makes you feel alone. You spend your entire life with somebody else to one day be left single. Between your grieving emotions, you have to learn to…

At Alfix, we will be able to help you discover the right kind of stairlift for you. It really is as simple as measuring your stairs, and your height, to see which model will fit your staircase giving you enough room to be comfortable. Make no mistake, there are stairlifts for narrow stairs, curved or…

If you’ve come to the decision that you require a stairlift to be fitted into your home, you are probably weighing your options around how to pay for your stairlift. It is often a pricey investment, but a necessary one for many people. We will discuss the various options you may have to help you…

The stairlift is a common piece of machinery used on a daily basis by many, many people! However, its easy to bypass these wonderful pieces of machinery which are an all too common sight in our day to day lives. However, stairlifts are really rather exceptional inventions and we have a few surprising facts for…

Stairlifts are a great addition to your home to help improve your mobility around the house and increase safety. But just like many other pieces of equipment or furniture in your home, you’ll need to keep it clean. As a mechanical piece of equipment, in order to make it last longer, you’ll need to make…