(EN) Means for lifting a handicapped or otherwise disabled person from a sitting position and moving such person to another area, as for a bath, use of a toilet or different seating comprising an open torso support (44) formed of a rigid transverse member (46), and member having an inner wall (50) adapted to fit around the person's abdominal area, and a vertical outer wall (48) from the ends of which reasonably extend planar sidewalls (56), the member also supporting a pair of vertical elements (62) spaced apart from each other and having rearwardly extending arcuate arm supports (64). The torso support (44) may be pivotally (76) attached at the lower rear corners of the planar sidewalls either to the extremities of bifurcated arms (34, 36) of a hydraulically constructed 'cherry picker' lift, or to an overhead lifting cable (88) by two pairs of flexible elements, the lower extension of one pair of which are pivotally attached to the transverse member at such lower rear corners of the planar sidewalls, and the lower extremities of the other pair of flexible elements being attached to the upper ends of the pair of vertical elements.