Bath Safety - Preventing Slips and falls in the bathroom Statistics show bathrooms can be the most dangerous room in your house. 70% of household accidents happen in the bathroom. The combination of water and smooth surfaces makes taking a bath or shower a risky proposition. Slip and falls account for more than 20,000 deaths per year in North America. It is the second leading cause of accidental death and disability after a car accident. Over 75% of deaths slip fall occur to people 65 years or older. Given these statistics, what can you do to keep your bathroom safe?
Grab
A grab bar is a safety device that attaches to the wall and acts as a handful of regular feature. They are useful toilet nearby or in bathtubs and showers to help the person to keep their balance. They are traditionally constructed of plastic, aluminum or stainless steel, and generally screw into the wall. There are also grab bars that use suction to hold onto the wall, if you do not put holes in the wall. Those aspirations are not intended to bear the weight of the whole body, but rather to act as a stabilizing influence.
Transfer Benches
Entering and exiting the bathtub or shower can be a tricky thing as you climb over the wall on a wet surface, eventually. transfer benches to minimize the risk. A transfer bench is basically a chair mounted on large vessel wall, so there are two legs on the outside and two legs inside the tub. To get into the tub, you sit on the outside and scoot over until you're sitting in the bathtub. It takes the risk of return, because you're sitting all the time. There are many variations of transfer benches ranging from those with seats upholstered with openings to those convenient for washing perineum.
Recently, transfer benches with a sliding seat became available. These bring into and out of tub or shower even easier. The benches have a seat that slides on rails and out of the tub. So instead of having to scoot over on the bench transfer, the user is located just on the seat and slides into the tub. This variety of transfer benches is particularly useful to those who have suffered a recent hip surgery because they did not move. It is completely safe and has locks on both sides to keep the seat in place. There are even varieties with seats that swivel and lock into place every 90 degrees for raising and lowering the seat easier.
Shower chairs
Help for a shower chair in the bathtub or shower allows the user to sit while they are bathing, so they do not have to worry up and may be slippery . I recommend the kind with a back and armrests, as they provide support in the defense and sit down. There are several types of padded seats for those who need a smoother surface. They have contoured chair seats, so you can wash the bottom, and they have models that fold up when not in use. The chairs are usually constructed with materials resistant to rust as aluminum, plastic or stainless steel, and are usually quite light.
Security Framework toilets
Sometimes people have trouble getting up after they sat down a framework for the toilet fits around or over the toilet and provides armrests so that the user may have something to meet their needs as they stand or sit. Convenient lift / raised toilet seats also are useful because they attach to the toilet seat so that the user does not have much to stand or sit.
Not only do these types of products ensuring physical security, but they also provide peace of mind for users and their relatives.
Posted on March 9, 2010.
