Lift and tilt chair (rise and recline)

The lift and tilt or riser recliner chair is designed specifically for people who find it hard to lower themselves into, or lift themselves out of, a regular chair.

These chairs look very similar to typical living room chairs, but there are many underlying differences that make them particularly suitable for the elderly or people with hip and knee joint difficulties.

How the lift (rise) and tilt (recline) chair works

The riser recliner chair works by using electric motors to change the angle and level of the chair's seat and backrest. The chair's movement are controlled with a hand held remote control unit that is operated by the person intending to use the chair.

The chair's function has a double action motion that works as follows when the person using the chair is already seated.

The seat and backrest of the chair rise up slowly. As the chair reaches the top of its rise it starts to tilt or twist forwards. This rise and tilt action causes the seated person firstly, to straighten their legs as they become more elevated and secondly, to find their body being gently tipped forwards and out of the chair.

By the time the chair has completed its motion the person seated in it will be in a near standing position requiring only a minimum of physical effort to complete the standing up action.

To sit down into a lift and tilt chair the standing person simply sits back into the already elevated and tilted chair and uses the remote control to cause the chair to lower itself.

Both the standing up and sitting down chair actions takes only a matter of seconds and they can remove a physical obstacle for many elderly or arthritic people.

Appearance and requirements

A rise and recliner chair can be positioned in any room provided that it has access to an electricity mains socket.

All of the different versions of the rise and recline and lift and tilt chairs are designed to fit into a typical living room space without looking out of place. They come in a range of colours with different soft fabrics and armrest profiles and many can be purchased to compliment a new or existing suite.

When in their normal sitting (at rest) position most rise and recline chairs are indistinguishable from regular living room chairs. When the chair is in its elevated and tilted position the motorised base section of the chair will be partially visible and this is the only time when this type of chair can be identified for what it actually is.

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