Design And Development Of Shower Wheelchair For Rehabilitation Person

Siti Amidah, Ali (2015) Design And Development Of Shower Wheelchair For Rehabilitation Person. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The purpose of this project was to design a new shower aid that can help ease the patient used by individual with rehabilitation and also disabilities person can get benefit from this unit. Design and Development of Shower Wheelchair for Rehabilitation Person is equipment that is design to ease the patient and can help the caregiver make their job easier. The need for this new design was consumer-driven. This unit have oval shape seat to give the comfortable to the patient for urinating. The special about this unit is patient can control the on off on the pipe valve of the water flow at her/him hand rest, water will flow and coming out from the shower head. This unit objective is to ease the patient and on the other hand to make the patient become more independent in daily life. Person with disabilities or in rehabilitation normally feel shy and inferiority complex to other because of their deficiency. Good equipment can make the patient improve day after day and can bring convenience to the user. This unit will improve from the existing in term of ease patient movement, ability, and can encourage the patient to bath by themselves. Design and Development of Shower Wheelchair for Rehabilitation Person can also be used by disabilities person, because it have pipe valve where the patient easy to control by its self. The special features of this unit are it have adjustable foot rest height. This unit doesn’t take much space in the bathroom. This Shower Aid used concept selection to choose batter design and material to be use.

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