WALK-IN BATHTUBS: SAFETY AND INDEPENDENCE FOR SENIORS
Posted by Safety Bath Walk in Tubs on October 16th, 2017
According to the National Council on Aging, every 20 minutes, an older senior is sent to the hospital or emergency room for a fall related injury. Slips or falls on the ground or home often end up with minor injuries, but a fall in the bathroom can be serious, especially for seniors. Some common reasons of fall are slippery or wet bathtubs or floors, non-slip resistant shower chairs, or unsecured grab bars. But a simple step can make the bathroom a safer place by reducing the injury risk for seniors. Installing a walk-in tub is the best option for this. Though walk-in tubs are an investment, they will reduce the risk of falling while getting in or out of the bath tub, and more importantly, they will give seniors a chance to live independently with no worry about falls or slips. Because entering into and exiting from a bathtub are the times when 70% of mishaps occur, let’s discuss about how the walk-in bath tubs improve the safety and independence for seniors.
• Feeling of Safety – Walk-in tub feature makes showering much easier for seniors by preventing them from taking large steps into a slippery tub. Another essential feature includes anti-slip bottom, hot water jets, warm air massage jets, and gel pillow which can help them feel secure while bathing.
• Feeling of Independence – Anyone who suffers from muscle pain or any physical limitation, faces an anxiety or hardship even in completing the simple task of showering. But walk-in bath tubs can change this experience to a pleasurable one by creating a world of difference where one’s ability remains independent, and helps to maintain their self-sufficiency by improving accessibility safe and sound within their homes.
• Hydrotherapy along with Massage – Using cold water to cure pain has been proven as an age-old medical concept. Walk-in tubs are configured with many hydrotherapy features like chroma or aroma therapy and whirlpool jets. Anyone suffering with symptoms of blood circulation or arthritis, can easily get relaxed with this therapy, as it eases away the pains and aches and acts as a body’s natural pain killer.
• Relaxation and Improved Sleep – Features of walk-in bath tub provide a mass of health benefits by use of cold or hot water therapy jets to stimulate blood circulation, air therapy to rejuvenate skin, aroma therapy to stimulate senses, which naturally put the body and mind in a relaxed state which leads to a good and peaceful sleep.
Walk-in tubs are designed to fulfil the needs of seniors, disabled or anyone who has mobility challenge. So, basically it can convert your bathroom into a calming room, where you can indulge in a bubble, warm, and soothing bath that relieves your aches and stress. And this kind of investment increases the value of your home, and that you will be happy to have considered it.
About the Author:
Rory O’Brien, Operations Manager of Safety Bath Walk in Tubs
Safety Bath Walk in Tubs has been manufacturing tubs since 1992. Our tubs are made with the highest quality materials, from one-piece Fiberglass backed acrylic to aluminium door systems with auto locks. We have Walk in Tubs to fit all applications and it is our duty to ensure that we fit the right tub to the individual clients needs without any high pressure or intrusive sales people.
Safety Bath offers outward swinging doors to supply the end user with the most accessible, easiest and safest entry of all walk-in tubs that even allow wheelchair users to have a bath without assistance. The tubs can also be ordered with a matching shower surround that is both cost effective and attractive. We can accommodate any safe bathing project regardless of size from Institutions, care homes, multi residences and also individual home owners. We also offer Bath Tub conversion kits that install in hours and are very economical.
