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How Living Aids can Improve Mental Health
14 October 2025 - by Matt Stanfield

For this blog article about how living aids can improve mental health for their users, it’s important to quickly touch on terminology. “Living aids” and “mobility products” are two sides of the same coin. The primary difference is that mobility products are designed either to be used for getting from place to place, e.g. wheelchairs; are motorised, e.g. riser-recliners, or are both, e.g. power-assisted rollators.

Where are Living Aids Normally Used? NRS Healthcare Garden Kneeler - Improve Mental Health Blog

Meanwhile, “living aids” can be considered as complementary to mobility products. They are more likely to be tailored for use in and around the house. For example, they can include products to make gardening easier. A couple of living aids for the keen gardener which Lifestyle & Mobility sell are the Invisible Creations outdoor plant pot grab rail, and the NRS Healthcare garden kneeler, shown to the right:

Whilst something like the garden kneeler, an adjustable gardening stool/chair, may look humble, there’s more than meets the eye. In fact, living aids are often understated to look at. For the most, they are all about the functionality. That isn’t to say that form never comes into it, however. After all, life has many different facets.

Designer Living Aids?

It hardly needs saying that a visually pleasing environment is good for mental health. Consider how it feels to wake up in a messy room, relative to a tidy one, just for one example. Tidiness, cleanliness, and a general sense that effort has been put into your surroundings, all improve mental health.

For this reason, let’s take a quick look at living aids which combine useful functions with attractive forms. These could be high-powered, high-efficiency home lights, ideal for those with sight impairments. Or, they could even be a small, lightweight piece of furniture, such as the twin-top Drive Devilbiss Deluxe Overbed Table.

Ultimately, though, in order to truly appreciate the transformative effects of living aids on health and wellbeing, it’s best to explore them in depth. Lifestyle & Mobility are proud to offer a huge range of these products both on our website, and at our various showrooms – find your nearest store by following this link – we look forward to welcoming you soon!

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