Design Of An Aid To Assist Handicap/Old People To Toilet/ Shower

Muhamad Nur Arsh, Mohamad Basir (2007) Design Of An Aid To Assist Handicap/Old People To Toilet/ Shower. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, assistive devices for handicap and old people are less to be found in the market in our country. Disabled persons usually use old fashion devices which are consider non safety to them. Transferring to the toilet bowl or bathing chair is quite difficult to them according to their physical limitation. Persons with disability faced a problem in most of their daily activities which need an assistive device to improve the quality of life and make them independently. The reason for them to use an assistive aid in toilet and bathroom is to prevent an accident from happening as there are many case of accident happened involving this people through years. For the reason, a design proposal of an aid to help handicap and old people to toilet and shower is pursued in this project The project proposed a design that useful and relevant to user in assisting to toilet and shower considering ergonomics and safety factor. A detail study on disabled persons and existing assistive device are made to develop and design the aid in helping disabled persons to toilet and shower. Hopefully the concept that have been generate can assist this people and decrease accident among them during toileting and bathing.

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