Hi,

When there are medical emergencies that affect you or a family member, it is always good to have medical information available to help the attending physicians. Such information could include medical history, allergies to food and drugs, medications, and other details that would guide health professionals. You can now carry such important, potentially life-saving information — and much more besides — everywhere you go and have it readily available, literally at your fingertips. This is possible with the IdentaKey.

IdentaKey

You can store vital information in the IdentaKey, a portable USB drive, for up to eight individuals. That should be more than enough for everyone in the family. In addition to medical records, you can store physical descriptions and identifying characteristics, four different pictures of each individual, contact information, and details about school, family and even your child’s friends. The device uses username and password protection to restrict access only to those you authorize. In addition, all medical information will be specially encrypted for added security. IdentaKey comes with its own software, so nothing gets stored in your computer and you’re assured it will run on virtually any computer.

The other aspect of emergencies where IdentaKey is able to help is in case someone in the family goes missing. IdentaKey has a feature that spreads the information and distributes posters about the missing member. You can lend the flash disc to law enforcers so they can retrieve reports about the missing family member. If necessary the ID key can produce print reports, such as a complete profile and a fingerprint card. You can even print ID cards and identification tags for bags.

IdentaKey helps you put technology to work keeping and protecting vital information and having it readily available when you most need it. This is one safety product that you will treasure. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living,
Yovette Mumford

Hi,

As we think about safety products to gift those whom you care about this holiday season, let us remember the seniors in our family or those who need to be physically supported as they go about the daily routines that we all take for granted.

While seniors and those who are on the road to recovery know that they sometimes have to depend on others to move around, they still value their independence and will cherish every chance to exercise it. It helps if the furniture around the house has good stability to help seniors maintain steadiness of their body. One of the most worrisome and difficult moments is going to the bathroom. They have to be careful because things are more slippery in the bathroom and the tasks require so much shifting of weight it is easy to get off balance.

Toilet Seat Safety Support

For safety in the bathroom, the toilet seat needs to be made of firm materials secured firmly to the toilet base. Sitting balance can sometimes be a problem, so you may want to give them a Toilet Seat Safety Support to help them keep their balance at these critical moments. This is a free-standing frame that provides support on either side when they sit down or get up. The conveniently located handholds allow them to transfer weight from the feet to the hands and help prevent them from falling when they get on or off the toilet seat. If you click the picture, you will see how the toilet seat safety support looks and get an idea of its features. As an extra, there is a magazine rack for keeping stuff they like to read.

This simple frame helps our beloved seniors or recovering patients keep their privacy and exercise the independence they so cherish — and need. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living,
Yovette Mumford

Hi

In this series of blogs about safety products as gift ideas for the holiday season, we thought about the seniors in our homes or those weakened by a major illness and are still on the road to recovery.

Who would have thought that those in their 50s and 60s today would become caregivers to 80- or 90-year-old parents? The Family Caregiver Alliance estimates that “unpaid caregivers” — meaning younger family members — will total 37 million by 2050, which would be almost double the 20 million estimated in 2000.

Safety Bath Seat With Back

We can help the physically weakened members of the family keep their independence in taking care of themselves by making the bathroom safe for them. A tub chair, like the Safety Bath Seat with Back rest, is a sturdy chair meant to be placed in the bathtub. Being of molded high-density plastic, it is water resistant; having rubber tips at the end of anodized aluminum legs, it is slip resistant. The seat and back rest have drainage holes to make sure the plastic does not become slippery. The chair will enable seniors who cannot get down into a tub or a recovering person who is too weak to stand in a shower to bathe in the tub rather than in bed. If you click the picture, you’ll get more details on the features of the Safety Bath Seat with Back rest.

Think of the boost to their self-confidence (and the greater satisfaction that results) when they can get a proper bath in the shower by themselves instead of the sponge baths we give them in bed! To make it even safer for them, we can install safety bars, or grab bars, in and near the tub to give them a handhold when they change positions.

These gifts will surely be appreciated by those who will use them. They will feel empowered, even as they feel a lot fresher. Look around in our website for more safety products you can give in this holiday season. There’s one for every member of the family. Life has no reset button, think safety.

Safe living, Yovette Mumford