Anne S. Royer & Robert W. Royer Founders of Meal Lifter®
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Anne S. Royer & Robert W. Royer as guests to the show.
About Anne S. Royer:
Anne's background and interests have included family, volunteering, and her love of art, painting and photography that began while living in Santa Fe and continues today.
About Robert W. Royer:
Robert is a semi-retired real estate developer specializing in residential, mixed-use, and resort properties.
About Meal Lifter®:
The Meal Lifter® eating aid was created to assist individuals suffering from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dementia, Cerebral Palsy, Essential Tremors, autism, strokes, injuries, learning disabilities, and age-related conditions that make it difficult to eat independently.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.7 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.9 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:37.8 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome two remarkable guests, |
| 0:43.9 | Anne and Robert Royer, the co-founders of Meal Lifter. Welcome. How are you guys? Thank you. We appreciate |
| 0:51.8 | this opportunity. Very well, thank you. |
| 0:55.1 | It's our pleasure. You know, I introduce you guys as the co-founders of Mealilifter. |
| 1:01.5 | For those that may not be familiar with what Meal Lifter is, Ann, would you like to kind of describe it and help people understand what its purpose is and how they can use it to help their |
| 1:12.9 | loved ones? |
| 1:14.4 | Well, the meal lifter is just a simple platform that raises a nine-inch plate to a height of about |
| 1:23.7 | four and a quarter inches. |
| 1:26.1 | It is no more difficult than a spoon or a fork from the |
| 1:31.0 | standpoint that all it does is enables all, it enables the individual to have their food raised |
| 1:41.8 | at the height where they can just put their elbow on the table, |
| 1:47.0 | pivot with their utensil from the plate to mouth, they can maybe grasp around the side of the meal lift or pull it closer to them, |
| 1:57.0 | and people with any kind of neurological issues that prevent them from raising their arm comfortably |
| 2:05.7 | can eat and I would say dine with grace and dignity. |
| 2:11.2 | Okay. |
| 2:12.3 | You know, and I know Robert, you were very instrumental in the creation of Meal Lifter from a personal experience. |
| 2:20.2 | Would you mind sharing for our viewers and listeners the story behind Meal Lifter? |
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