Care providers working in a community setting face a number of unique challenges when it comes to assisting clients with their mobility. This session will provide participants with targeted and relevant information and hands on practice. Topics will include:

• Principles of safer body mechanics, and discussion on why body mechanics is not always enough to keep you safe
• The difference between lifts and transfers
• Recognition of high-risk client care activities
• Responding to unsafe client handling situations and requests from others
• Opportunity to practice using a Hoyer lift, sit-stand lift, and ceiling track lift
• Assisting with a variety of manual transfers such as sit-stand
• Assisting with repositioning using a variety of techniques and devices
• Discussions on safe patient handling challenges unique to community care
• Opportunity to problem solve current patient handling situations with peers