Caregivers operating floor lifts need to stay focused on maneuvering and steadying the equipment more than on the user. Hands and minds of ceiling lift operators are free to attend to the user. Floor lift operation look down at the user. Because floor lifts do not position, the client in a floor lift environment needs to be manually shifted into the desired final posture. It is not possible to achieve independence in a floor lift.
Some users are able to become as self-mobile in a ceiling lift as in a wheelchair.
Access to affordable health care Public sector restraint and the graying of an informed population are causing an imbalance of supply and demand in the health care market. The imbalance will be addressed by making institutional healthcare more affordable and by increasing the role of home health care. Ceiling lifts play a key role in this unfolding dynamic. Only ceiling lifts therefore definitively and materially take cost out of the delivery of health care. Ceiling lifts free up health care worker time.