Aidacare

Aidacare, provider of mobility aids and medical equipment in Australia

Aidacare presents itself as a leading provider of mobility aids, disability equipment and healthcare solutions. Its catalogue ranges from wheelchairs to adjustable beds and medical products aimed at improving users' comfort and independence. The company operates in Australia and has an online shop and telephone support.

Product catalogue for care and mobility

Aidacare's offering is organised into major product areas:

• Bathroom & Toilet: shower commodes, shower seating, bath aids, toileting aids, grab rails & bars, bath lifts and bathroom & shower trolleys.
• Bedroom: aged care beds, home care beds, hospital beds, bedside commodes, bedroom furniture, mattresses, pillows & supports, and bed accessories.
• Chairs: lift recline chairs, pressure relief chairs, day chairs and chair accessories.
• Cushions & Supports: general cushions, coccyx pressure care cushions and positioning cushions.
• Daily Living Aids: dressing aids, kitchen aids, gripping aids, cutlery, crockery and reaching aids.
• Falls Prevention & Alarms: bed alarms, chair alarms, fall mats, personal alarm systems, infrared alarms, floor mats and accessories.
• Funeral & Mortuary: lifting equipment, trolleys, trays / racks, and instrument / dressing trolleys.
• Furniture: furniture for facilities and furniture for mental health.
• Hospital Equipment: beds, mattresses, bedroom furniture, patient hygiene, patient handling trolleys & carts, patient chairs, examination couches & equipment, wheelchairs, maternity and CSSD & pan room.
• Incontinence: bed pads, incontinence pads, incontinence pants, clothing protectors and chair protectors.
• Laundry & Cleaning: linen skips, clean linen & storage, other trolleys and kitchen trolleys.
• Manual Handling: Aspire manual handling, Liko manual handling, slings, patient hoists, standing hoists, ceiling hoists, lifter accessories, slings for standing hoists, transfer aids, slings for patient lifting hoists and gantry systems.
• Falls Management: stair lifts.
• Medical Carts: procedure & medication carts, paediatric crash carts, emergency crash carts, medication sachet carts, anaesthesia carts, isolation carts and medical cart accessories.
• Mobility: electric wheelchairs, mobility ramps (threshold ramps and senior ramps), mobility scooters (small, medium, folding and large), mobility scooter parts and mobility scooter accessories.
• Paediatric: mobility aids, postural support, maternity, paediatric bathroom & toilet and pressure care.
• Pressure Care: protection - general, pressure care alternating air mattresses, pressure care foam mattresses, pressure care cushions, pressure relief chairs, and protection - skin & limb.
• Therapy & Rehab: movement therapy equipment, exercise & resistance training, physiotherapy and bracing & supports.
• Utility & Pan Room: washer sanitisers & macerators, bowls & pans, pulp shapes, detergent & deodorisers.
• Walking Aids: seat walkers / rollators, walking frames, forearm walkers, knee walkers, walking sticks & canes, crutches and walking aid accessories.
• Wheelchairs: manual wheelchairs, custom manual wheelchairs, power wheelchairs, custom power wheelchairs, power assist devices and wheelchair accessories.

Equipment hire

Aidacare offers product hire in several categories: bariatric, bathroom and toilet, bedroom, chairs, mobility scooters, manual handling, walking frames and aids, ramps and pressure care.

Application and health condition guides

The site organises resources by application and need, including: 24 hr positioning/postural support, after a stroke, back care, carer's support, dementia care, energy conservation, falls prevention, hip & knee care, mobility & access, neuro conditions, paediatric range, pressure care, travel, assistive technology, bariatric XXL range, living with arthritis and therapy & exercise.

Contracts and funding

Aidacare works with funding programmes and public and private contracts. Among the schemes mentioned are DVA, NDIS, geat2GO, Support at Home, icare, MASS, SWEP, TAC, WorkSafe Victoria, HPV, DHHS Tasmania, EnableNSW and Queensland Health. The company states that it has been a registered NDIS provider since 2013.

Technical and management services

The company provides maintenance and repair services, asset management, reissue of specialised equipment and contract services for assistive technology. It also offers warranty registration, complex rehabilitation and service requests.

Customer segments

Aidacare serves aged care facilities, hospitals and acute care, prescribing therapists, community care, individuals and private users, wholesalers and retirement villages. It has partner portals and a network of collaborators that includes health providers and aged care services.

Featured brands and products

Among the brands and products that appear in the catalogue are Aspire, Pride, Sunrise Medical and Bruno. Some examples are the Aspire Lima Medium Pull Apart mobility scooter, the Activ+ Comfort Range mattress, the Activ+ Manchester Pack, the Activ+ Zero-G pillow, the Pride Victory Platinum 4-wheel wheelchair, the Pride Go Go Mg Lite, the Pride Jazzy Carbon Max, the Aspire Active Reach tray table, the Aspire swivel shower chair, the Aidacare powered drive wheel for medical carts, the Aspire Zulu Maxi, Sierra, Oscar Medium, Odin Large and Juno Large scooters, the STERLING S800 by Scoozy Sunrise Medical and the Aspire Rembrandt X5, Raphael X5, Matisse X5, Monet X5 and Gabriel X5 lift recline chairs.

Clearance Centre

Aidacare has a clearance centre that offers healthcare equipment and assistive technology at reduced prices for hospitals, aged care facilities and wholesale partners.