Patented bathtub for the elderly who can lie down in bed

There is a door on the bathtub, so there is no need to raise your legs when you enter the bathtub; there are breathing openings on the steam room, so the elderly will not be deprived of oxygen when enjoying the sauna; . This is a toiletries for the elderly designed by Zhao Ying, the director of an apartment for the elderly, and has been patented.

Causality

Elderly bathing and falling

She decided to build a bathtub for the elderly

Zhao Ying is the dean of an elderly apartment. In the winter of 2006, when the carer in the apartment tried to lift an 80-year-old half-disabled lady into the bathtub, the old man’s arm was dislocated and fractured due to improper force. In 2007, a self-care elderly person took a bath in the room, accidentally slipped and broke his tailbone.

Zhao Ying said that from 1998 to 2007, five or six elderly people in the apartment fell due to taking a bath, and the elderly, their families, and the hospital were all suffered losses. She decided to make a bathtub specially suitable for the elderly.

'I went to the building materials market to find special toiletries for the elderly. I ran all over Zhengzhou, but it was in vain.' Zhao Ying said.

Action

Do it yourself

Make baths for the elderly

In order to make baths suitable for the elderly, Zhao Ying specializes Went to Japan and Germany nursing homes to inspect professional bathing equipment. Zhao Ying, who had a background in designing, after returning to China, he draws and buys wood by himself, and asks a carpenter to make it. During this period, Zhao Ying used transformation, manufacturing, and re-transformation. One year later, the 'Self-care Elderly Bath Steamer' and 'Disabled Elderly Multifunctional Bath Steamer' designed by her were completed.

'In the bath steaming box, the head of the old man is exposed, and the body can be washed and steamed, enjoying the treatment of the steaming room, without slipping and feeling stuffy; there are spray nozzles on the side and upper part of the bath steaming bed. , The elderly can take a bath without moving their bodies.” Zhao Ying said that since the two wooden devices were put into use, there hasn’t been an elderly person in the apartment who was hurt by taking a bath.

Hope

Every elderly person can take a safe bath

Zhao Ying realized the joy of success. She designed barrier-free assistance according to the usual needs of the elderly. Bath tools, open-door bathtub, domestic elderly open-door bathtub, steamer for disabled elderly, self-care horizontal open-door bathtub for elderly. Her design surprises the family members of the elderly. In 2010, under the reminder of the elderly's family, she applied for a national patent and obtained a patent certificate issued by the State Intellectual Property Office in 2011.

In July this year, her product won the '2012 People's Livelihood Science and Technology Progress Project Award' selected by the Zhengzhou Science and Technology Bureau and the Finance Bureau, and received 200,000 yuan in support.

Zhao Ying said that every family has elderly people, everyone will get old, patents and awards are not required, I only hope that every elderly person can take a bath safely.