Showering and Bathing Safely for Those With Disabilities Part Four

Then there is the simple fact that so many people who use the bathroom it will end up locking the door in order to keep people out. While most of the time even your most disabled relatives might be fine to shower or bath on their own, if they lock the doors they will potentially slip and fall in a situation where there is no one able to get to them and help. It is for this same reason that most of us don't want our young children to lock the doors on the bathroom when they go in either and this is a very serious health concern.

This locked door will of course be easy to break down in an emergency, however by the time that you might have managed that you could find that they are in a much worse condition than if you could have gotten to them sooner.

This then means that the handicapped are doing difficult movements and positions and standing for long periods of time, while being in a room that is slippery and has lots of hard surfaces and being locked in so that no one could get into them.