Able Life Universal Stand Assist, Chair Lift-Assist for Elderly, Grab Bar Standing Aid for Seniors, Daily Living Mobility Aid, Brown

Caregiver for elderly family member. Mobility issues. Even a new couch which was higher and firmer than prior - had difficulty pushing off to stand. This product's below couch cushion structure with the legs - are 100% sturdy!It has been extremely helpful. Highly recomend. Easy to assemble, and adjustable heights and such.Great product

Part of the stand includes a metal bar that runs from the right side to the left side, passing behind the coccyx when you're sitting down, and I'd like to address that concern. For our couch, the seat-back pillow on the couch is about six inches deep and removable. When placing the stand onto the couch, the bar lays on the seat and slips under the bottom of the seat-back pillow. Make sure the bar is as far away as possible from the coccyx, deeply recessed behind the seatback pillow, and the seatback pillow is completely in front of the bar. Make sure the bar is hitting the back of the couch, then put the seatback pillow in front of it. When my mom drops into the couch, her coccyx only hits the full depth of the pillow, not the bar. Further, she also uses a small pillow for lumbar support in front of the seatback pillow, so that puts even more distance between her and the bar. She's about 190 lbs, and her coccyx has never hit the bar.There is a locking adjustment so when the bar is flush up against the back of the couch as far as it can go, the handles extend just beyond the front of the couch cushion. That puts the handles in the best position for standing up. You have to slide forward so your shoulders are above the handles, then you have the best leverage for pushing down while you're standing up.The stand works fine for her. Handles on the right and left to push on when she stands up. The handles are easier than a shaky cane on one side that's too high when you're sitting, and the couch-arm on the other side that isn't really intended to help you stand up. The handles on the stand are a strategic inch lower than the couch-arms, and are better situated to help while standing up. I'll see if I can add a photo to the review.When sitting, she has the couch's armrest on one side. For the other side, she has a tube-shaped pillow that I put over the exposed bar that she can use as an armrest for that side.No degradation of The Stand noticed after a year. I checked the bolts for tightness a few months ago and they were all still as tight as when I assembled the stand. I kept the large allen wrench in a drawer. The bolts have socket-heads which accept the allen wrench, and they are easy to manipulate. At once point, you will have the floor filled with large sections of railing before it's all put together. It's been a while, but I remember the assembly directions were sufficient.

Of course, measure your own recliner chair seat width and depth, plus foot rest width carefully to be sure it will work for your recliner, but this fits fine & easily over the top of the seat cushion of my La Z Boy recliner and it can also be removed just by lifting it back off, once no longer needed. I don't feel the rear part of the assist on my back when I sit down, but you can always add a pillow if you do. My chair can still revolve, rock and recline but this device also holds the chair still and steady, with bars reaching to the floor, when seated upright, with other padded attached bars acting as hand grips for when you want to get up out of the chair, or for sitting down in it. The leg bars of the device lift up, when you recline your chair and go back down to the floor when you move the chair upright. You can choose to attach the hand grips facing outward instead of in, if you don't want to reach behind you when you stand up.This assist device provides the steadiness I will need to get in and out of my recliner during recovery after knee surgeries, but also make it so I will be able to rest in a comfortable chair and not have to settle for the misery of hard, straight chairs, typically advised after such surgeries. Worth every cent for that, alone!

Works well on couches

I installed this on a recliner. The shape of it was better for a recliner than simpler products that need a crossbar at the front. This one tucked around the sides of the cushion, so as not to interfere with the recliner mechanism that covers the front of the chair. It took a fair amount of pushing and pulling to get it in, but it is a great aid to my mom for getting out of the soft recliner. I also added a pad made for wheelchairs to make the cushion less of a sink hole!

It works on a Lazyboy recliner chair. It could be set wide enough to allow the footrest to pass. I needed to add a belt as a tie down behind the seat cushion to the back of the chair frame. It’s feet do help to stop the chair from tipping over forward when you slide to the front to get up. I fixed that with blocks of wood screwed to the frame as well. The handles do not stick up any higher than the arms of the chair, but they are easier to grab than the overstuffed arms. My mother was too weak to push up on the handles. So I mounted them pointing forward from the chair where she could pull on them.This product did not work on the couch. It could not be adjusted to fit the low height and there was no way to tie it down or stabilize it.I ended up putting it on the bed tied down to the frame up near the bed stand to be out of the way of swing legs—just as a handle to aid sitting up and sliding around.One unit came with an extra bolt, but short one nut. They are specialized and not likely to be found locally. I had to use an over length bolt that now sticks out.

Easy to put together. Sturdy. Great product!