A comforting hot bath at home should be a pleasant way to relax for a number of seniors in limited mobility conditions, but the fact is that there is an extremely high risk of safety connected with it.
The bathroom tile is continuously wet, the walls around the bathtub covered in moisture. A person gets in by placing one leg over the rim of the tub which leads to a very unstable condition, so slipping is common.
Bathing causes the legs's blood vessels to dilate while the muscles in turn become weaker. Getting up on the wet rim of the tub becomes a very demanding task. One step gone, slipping, falling and the resulting hard hits.
Data reveal that almost 40% of accidents in homes due to fall occur in the bathroom. The main source of bathroom injuries is slip near bathtubs. A great deal of seniors end up bedridden with fractures resulting from these kinds of accidents. They suffer long-term physical torture and impose a heavy burden on families for caregiving.
For seniors suffering from such chronic problems, CareAge develops an electric bath lift chair tailored exclusively for bathtub use in a series of comprehensive safety steps from seating down to standing up.
This electric bath lift chair needs a simple install, just place it on any tub it can fit.
Fixed solidly on the bottom of a bathtub by means of six big-sized suction cups at the bath lift chair's base, it won't move and remain firm even when the bathtub is entirely filled with hot water.
As a result, senior citizens are prevented from slipping or falling during their sitting in the bath lift chair by the chair remaining unchangeable.
Seniors are allowed to get relaxed and spend more time in the bathtubs instead of worrying about their balance or tired feet. This bath lift chair also has a very important feature, the assist-to-stand system. With it, users no longer have to strain when they get up from their bath. Just hit the lift control of this electric bath lift chair on the side and the seat will start rising at a very gentle, slow speed. The senior is lifted smoothly from the water until the seat level is higher than the bathtub's rim. Then foot landing is naturally done through the senior stepping out easily. They are totally avoiding the highly slippery tub edge area which is the most dangerous.
Packaged as bare essentials without any extraneous frills, this electric bath lift chair targets precisely the three major risk areas of falls for seniors bathing in bathtub: getting into the tub is not the easiest task, standing up can cause one to slip and it is very risky when getting out after a wash. The new tool takes care of all these problems to the satisfaction of the family members.
This bath lift chair is far beyond just being an assistive device for bathing it is also peace of mind to both the seniors and their adult children. Seniors are able to have their hot baths without fear, whereas outside workers who are their children benefit so much from not feeling worried all the time. The electric bath lift chair brings stability to the seniors' independent living through aging in place safety-wise.