Hoyer

Quick meaning: Hoyer is a noun meaning A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and from the floor, a mobility device (such as a wheelchair), seating, and a bed.

Meaning

A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and from the floor, a mobility device (such as a wheelchair), seating, and a bed.

Example Sentences

The disease has affected his legs and arms, and he needs a caregiver at all times, he said. His family uses a hoyer lift to transfer him from his bed to his wheelchair and vice versa.

St. Luke’s has two types of hoyers that consist of a fabric sling that is placed underneath the patient’s body and an aluminum lift that picks them up. One of the hoyer lifts is electric, while the other is manual.

Doxzon, who requires a motorized wheelchair for mobility, a hoyer lift for being transferred in-and-out of her chair, and needs assistance with daily activities such as cooking, cleaning and personal hygiene, lived in an apartment with support services from an outside company for more than a year-and-a-half.

About five to ten years ago, facilities in Europe started to phase in different types of lift devices that are just now becoming more common in the United States. […] The portable lifting devices manufactured by medical equipment suppliers are U-shaped and contain wheels and a hoyer-style hydraulic or electric lift.

Word Forms

• hoyers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include houser, hower, hayer, hough, hoose, hosier.

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