Acorn Stairlifts South Africa Blog

Sadly, elder abuse is a common global issue, with around 1 in 6 people aged 60 and older experiencing some form of abuse in community sphysicaettings during the past year, according to the WHO. Read on to learn how you can prevent, recognise, and address elder abuse of your elderly loved one, keeping them safe, happy, and healthy during their golden years.

Recovering from a serious physical injury that limits your mobility and alters your way of life is no easy task. Read on to learn 5 helpful tips you can utilise to optimise you or a loved one’s recovery process and have you feeling strong and healthy again.

This International Women’s Day, Acorn Stairlifts celebrates all of the amazing women in the world that have made a difference. Read on to learn about the history behind International Women’s Day and how you can join in on celebrating all of the wonderful women in your life and all over the world.

Keeping track of your own medications can already prove to be a difficult task, but managing multiple medications for someone else as a caregiver takes even more thought and organisation. Read on to learn five tips on how to develop a medication management routine that is consistent and effective.

It’s no secret that Acorn Stairlifts has improved thousands of peoples’ quality of life that desperately needed it. In fact, every eight minutes somewhere in the world, another life is lifted. Read on to learn seven reasons how a stairlift transforms your life.

Ageing can be difficult to cope with for a number of reasons, whether it’s increasing physical and mental health concerns, feeling lonely or like a burden to others, or your independence and freedom seemingly slipping through your fingers. However, getting the help you need actually increases your independence and provides peace of mind to the loved ones that are concerned about you.

Body tremors. Stiffness. Slowness in movement. Impaired mobility. These are just a few of the over 40 symptoms that accompany Parkinson’s Disease. With the help of Acorn Stairlifts, you or your loved ones with Parkinson’s Disease will not have to be dependent on the schedules of others to start living your life to the fullest again.

Unlike other companies that install stairlifts manufactured by outside businesses, Acorn takes pride in providing customers with stairlifts straight from the source. Read on to learn why Acorn Stairlifts is the world’s leading stairlift manufacturer, exporting our products to more than 80 countries worldwide.

Although life can often feel like a steep staircase that we are struggling to overcome, it is the love and kindness of humanity that lightens our lives with the hope, strength, and courage that we need to continue climbing. This year, on Random Acts of Kindness Day, you can choose to bring light to someone’s life with a random act of kindness.

How Valentine’s Day started—the holiday that the world has fallen in love with quite literally— is somewhat murky. Many historians believe that the earliest link to the modern celebration of love associated with Valentine’s Day began in Rome, the city of romance, with the pagan festival of fertility.