toilet cistern lever disabled elderly children front flush handle chrome on metal WC new 39

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Consider how you can maintain your independence, for example by installing equipment to help with transfers on and off the toilet; by positioning grab rails in strategic places; or by using a sanichair (see below). Additional pommels at the front are also available to help with positioning or reducing accidental spillage. Some commodes can have armrests that can be removed, dropped down or flipped up to make a sideways transfer possible. If you have to lean sideways or forwards to reach any rail, it will not provide sufficient support and may put you at risk of falling. Please note, there can be variation in the range of equipment available and criteria for provision, depending on where you live.

If your carer has never received any advice on helping a person to transfer, ask to speak to a physiotherapist, occupational therapist or a community nurse.

These are shaped to support the buttocks but is also raised slightly at the centre front to help keep the legs apart and to provide better support for the thighs.

Ideally, when seated, your hips, knees and ankles should be at 90 degrees or a right angle, with feet flat on the floor. These toilets incorporate a macerator that pulps the solid waste to make it small enough to pass through small bore piping that will eventually link up with the main stack. You may have an equipment demonstration centre near you that you can visit to view different equipment. Fix your wc by choosing a flush handle from our wide range of front and side levers, concealed extended long reach levers, disabled levers and many more. If you know and understand the difficulties that you have and the reasons for them, you will be more able to select the right equipment to meet your needs.They may be too low to sit down on if used on their own, but they can be supplied with a frame that includes a platform on which to place the toilet and support rails either side. A versatile handle assembly, suitable for hinged/swing or sliding doors offering easy access with a simple lever operation. Consider having facilities both upstairs and downstairs, so you have easy access throughout the day and night. Anxiety about access to the toilet and managing activities associated with toileting when out and about can spoil a person’s enjoyment. If the assessment was made by social services, and is considered necessary and appropriate, they will also assess your financial status to see if you may be offered a Disabled Facilities Grant towards paying for the work.