Helping Elderly Parent Up Stairs When Visiting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could have a stair lift installed. Or you could get a manual wheelchair and slowly bounce him up/down the steps. You could do this pretty easily with two people helping, one above and one below. You slowly roll/bounce up one step at a time.

This sounds like a REALLY, incredibly bad, idea.

My father and my uncle (both very fit) dropped my 87 year old grandfather doing the stair bouncing thing. I wouldn't try it!

Miraculously, grandpa was completely unharmed - but I would NOT try this.

[Anonymous]

How did the visit go?