Power Toilet Aid Elevates Toilet Seats

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Elevate your bathroom experience

There are few worse places to get stuck than on the toilet.   Being able to go to the bathroom on your own is one of the first real forms of independence people develop, and being denied that ability due to injury, disability, or age can be frustrating and heartbreaking.  And not all of us have people who can come to the rescue at a moment’s notice!   Being unable to stand up and move from the toilet while alone at home can be just as dangerous (or lead to) a fall.

Fortunately there are a variety of solutions that can help people recover bathroom independence.

Sometimes, raising the toilet seat and adding grab bars is enough to give people the boost they need to get back on their feet.  Sometimes people need more help than that!  The Stand Aid power toilet may be the answer.  The Stand Aid power toilet is meant for situations where the person in question needs to be nearly standing again to get on and off the toilet.   It can lift 13” vertically to help someone back to their feet, but slowly lowers them to toilet level for both safety and cleanliness.

If you or someone you know is having trouble on the toilet, don’t be afraid to get help.  There are so many solutions that will take your bathroom experience back to the level it should be.  Share the news and share the video.

Tub Cut at Harrison Heights Senior Village

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At first, you might assume that cutting an 18” wide opening in the side of a bathtub would ruin it, but think again.  If the tub is unusable as a tub or shower because a person feels unsafe stepping over the side, or doesn’t use it for soaking because they can’t get up if they sit on the floor of the tub, what good is it?  It is a big useless waste of space!  Why not cut the side out of it, especially if you know what you are doing and you install a Tubcut™ which is strong, economical, and reversible?

This month, we visited our friend Pam Jackson, the property Manager at Harrison Heights Senior Village (402) 933-8080 to talk about her with the Tubcut™  we did for some of the people who live there. We had three major questions for her to determine if the process had been successful

1) Did the Tubcut™  improve the safety and independence of the person who had to use it?

2) Was the Tubcut™ good for helping her get the apartment filled, and for the community?

3) If the opportunity arose, would she arrange a Tubcut™ for another person who needed or wanted one?

The answers to all three questions were resoundingly positive. “[The Resident] doesn’t have to worry about falling or anything like that when he gets into the tub, but the option is also open where we have the piece and can put it back if another resident wants the full tub…Our whole office likes it.”

We are always thrilled to help out our friends at Harrison Heights, and help keep their residents safe and independent. If you know people who could use a little extra security getting in and out of the tub, but want to be able to convert it back to a regular tub if need be, share the news, and share the video. The Tubcut™ is the economical solution they need.

The RIGHT Way to Get into the Tub or Shower

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Have you ever run into someone who does a simple, trivial task so differently from you that it blows your mind? When we perform an action day in and day out for years, it becomes second nature, and we hardly realize what we are doing, much less be able to articulate why. Getting in the tub is an action like that. We do it all the time, so regularly, that we build up habits that we don’t even notice, even when they become detrimental to our health and safety.

Now, the only right way to get in and out of the tub is the way in which you are the safest. Some people will only get in at the back of the tub, others only in the front. Some will have the water running; others will only turn it on once they are settled in. As an access designer, I need to know how you prefer to move into the tub, because I don’t want to assume everyone does it “my way.” I want to be able to put a grab bar right where you are going to reach for support based on your preferences.

There are times where I will suggest a change. It is usually in circumstances in which someone’s abilities have changed, but their habits have not, or in a situation in which new equipment makes their old methods hazardous or unsafe. It’s never to try and make someone do it “the right way,” because there is no wrong way, so long as you aren’t in danger.So, share the news, and share the video. The right way to get into a tub is based on your equipment, the layout of your bathroom, your skills, and your preferences, and is always the way that makes you safest and most comfortable.