Why Choose a Healthcare Chair?
A healthcare chair is more than just seating; it is a specialist solution designed to enable safe transfers, promote healthy posture, reduce the risk of pressure sores, and support hygiene standards. Many healthcare chairs also include features such as tilt-in-space positioning and powered recline, allowing users to find the most comfortable sitting or resting position throughout the day. Healthcare chairs can be useful when aiding mobility, pressure care needs and incontinence, playing an important role in patients with chronic conditions, post-surgery or with bariatric needs. Using a healthcare chair instead of a regular armchair also prevents compensatory sitting postures, as it can be customised according to the patient. For wheelchair users, a healthcare chair provides an alternative seat to their usual wheelchair, while still meeting their postural needs.
Choosing the right healthcare chair provides significant benefits for both patients and carers. Built for clinical use, healthcare chairs create long-lasting comfort, improve safety, and manage hygiene to facilitate easier care in hospitals, care homes, and residential homes. With the right healthcare chair, patients gain greater comfort and dignity, while carers benefit from the additional support and safer transfers.
Key benefits of a healthcare chair:
Enhances daily comfort: Healthcare chairs are designed to improve patient comfort with modular seating that provides precise postural support, optional tilt-in-space function, and ergonomic armrests. These features allow patients to feel comfortable throughout the day and provide support for users when shifting positions independently.
Personalised pressure care: Specialist cushions help protect patients at risk of developing pressure sores. Our healthcare chairs offer tailored levels of support with a range of foam, air and gel cushions designed for pressure relief. At Wheelfreedom, our experts offer tailored seating solutions for patients with clinical needs to prevent skin breakdown and pressure sores.
Manage infections and hygiene: Healthcare chairs often come with varying waterproof, wipe-clean, anti-bacterial and anti-microbial fabrics, combined with removable and washable cushions and hygiene-gap designs to ensure easy cleaning. Our range comprises healthcare chairs thoughtfully designed and manufactured to meet infection and hygiene standards in hospitals and care homes.
Safe transfers and seating: Designed to facilitate easier transfers, healthcare chairs are often designed with features such as handles and wheels. Optional features such as rise & recline, and bariatric designs can also make patient transfers safer and easier. By reducing the strain on carers, healthcare chairs improve staff safety while also providing dignified transfers for patients.
24-hour posture management: A healthcare chair can help protect your body’s symmetry, posture and mobility while you lounge indoors. As 24-hour posture management emphasises caring for your posture throughout the day, a healthcare chair can help support your posture even when you are not in your powerchair.
Wheelfreedom expertise on healthcare chairs
Choosing the right healthcare chair depends on the patient and their environment and clinical needs. If you require guidance with finding the right healthcare chair, we recommend speaking to one of our assessors and trying different healthcare chairs in our Chessington showroom. Bookings must be made for our healthcare chairs, as we would need to arrange a slot with one of our specialists and ensure we have the right healthcare chairs in our showroom for you. Our impartial consultations are designed to help you find the best healthcare chair to support your anatomy, lifestyle, environment and health condition.
Our service includes:
Product demonstrations: We offer product demonstrations, allowing you to compare different healthcare chairs and try them out in our Chessington showroom. Experiencing different healthcare chairs allows you to make an informed decision with impartial guidance from our knowledgeable team.
Expert advice: Our assessors take into account posture, pressure care, health condition and living environment when recommending a chair. Accounting for various factors ensures you receive the best solution for long-term comfort and support.
Specialist delivery & set-up: Every healthcare chair is delivered and installed by a Wheelfreedom expert, not a third-party courier. We adjust all our healthcare chairs to fit you and your environment, and provide a thorough handover for a seamless experience and delivery. Our expert will ensure you feel confident with the chair during the handover.
Try healthcare chairs in our showroom
Call 0800 025 8005 or email enquiries@wheelfreedom.com to arrange an appointment with one of our assessors, where you can try different healthcare chairs in our Chessington showroom. To make an informed decision when purchasing a healthcare chair, we recommend trying different models in person to determine which chair feels most comfortable and supports your health condition.
