The washroom in your house needs to be a safe place for more than one reason. Be it the hyperactive kids at home, the incapacitated elderly member, or a bedridden patient – the safety aids are crucial for your bathroom. You only need to place a watchful eye inside your bathroom and demarcate the unsafe corners for the naughty ones before deciding but you need to do some research to make a list of bathroom safety aids for seniors!
Grab bars within the shower
Grabs bars are of 2 kinds – the ones that are anchored to the walls permanently and the type-2 that has suction cups fitted on both ends of the handles. Whichever you go for, make sure that they are sturdy enough to support the full bodyweight of an adult.
Talking about the suction bars – are you uncertain about how strong and safe they’d be? Well, you can rest assured that they are as good as the fixed ones!
A shower chair
A shower chair is a must especially if the bathroom is regularly being used by a patient or some elderly member at home. The user is far from accidental slips and falls, especially, when the balance is a challenge for him or her! The chair should be complemented with a hand shower (instead of the traditional overhead showers)!
Taking a shower no longer remains a challenge for the physically feeble and physically challenged persons!
Remake the bathtub area
You could either replace the bathtub with a walk-in shower chamber. Bathtubs are not much of an option for persons with physical challenges. If you still want to hold on to it (in case the bathtub is one of your favorite relaxing corners), you could go for a walk-in tub, the ones that are commonly used in spas. Similarly, quite like the walk-in tubs, walk-in shower chambers also come with in-built seats!
Bathroom safety aids are not only about installing special types of equipment. You cannot miss out on one thing – the flooring! You might need to place those special anti-slip bath mats and they shouldn’t create a tripping hazard. One such makeover inside your bathroom makes it a safe place to walk in for all your loved ones at home.
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