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It’s not always practical to allow care home residents total independence, especially when they need help visiting the bathroom. Clos-o-Mat tells Tomorrow’s Care how its range of toilet aids could change that.


Care home owners could potentially increase their profitability while simultaneously improving conditions for both residents and staff, and ensuring compliance with industry guidelines and government recommendations.


Clos-o-Mat, the supplier of toilet aids for disabled and older people, says its research shows there is growing demand for specialist washrooms in care facilities, which can improve life for residents and staff. The research is reinforced by the ‘Behind Closed Doors: Using the Toilet in Private’ campaign and the government’s own ‘Dignity in Care’ project.


Simultaneously, the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s Dignity in Care Practice Guide 09, which applies to all in the care sector – hospitals, residential, nursing, day centres and people’s own homes – highlights the difference that factors


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such as hygiene, including toileting and continence needs, can make in retaining and enhancing dignity and self-respect. Specifically, the guide requests the care sector to “enable people to maintain the maximum possible level of independence, choice and control”.


Robin Tuffley, Clos-o-Mat marketing manager, elaborated: “There is a proven, growing need for specialist care home beds, and equally, a growing need for facilities which cater for the less able. Those facilities can range from adaptations as little as installing grab rails through to a purpose-built accommodation block with wide, level threshold doorways for wheelchair access. Theoretically, if a home has specialist equipment, it increases demand and potentially a higher rate for those rooms. Budgets are finite, but a little analysis shows that for around one room’s rent for


one month, equipment such as a bidet toilet or mobile toilet lifter can be acquired that would hugely improve independence and dignity for residents, and free staff to undertake other elements of their role.”


Conscious that care home management staff are busy, and cannot be expected to be versed in all equipment options available, Clos-o-Mat has introduced a ‘Complete Bathroom Collection’ package, whereby the company will work with the establishment to design, supply and install appropriate equipment to make the bathrooms or washrooms as inclusive and accessible as possible. The package is specifically tailored to individual requirements, from user issues to budgetary


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