New Guidance on Single Handed Care

Single handed care in toileting

Single handed care options are widening, with advances in technology balanced alongside care budgets, outcomes advised by healthcare professionals, and the desires of the client.

With regard to the toilet, such technology not only enables single handed care to be achieved in reducing care support to one person, it can go as far as empowering the client to address their intimate care single-handedly, without any support or care intervention.
 

Occupational Therapy-led guidance from Closomat

To help professionals involved in the provision of toilet adaptation equipment, be it in domestic or residential care settings, efficiently assess and specify the most appropriate solution, Closomat has commissioned an Occupational Therapy-led guidance document.

Closomat’s guidance, ‘Single Handed Care- Toilet Guidance for Professionals’, applies the PEO (Person Environment Occupation) model to address how to change the environment from disabling to enabling.

It tabulates how use of appropriate technology, from hoists to wash & dry toilets, can reduce or even potentially eliminate the need for care intervention.
 

Explains Robin Tuffley, Closomat marketing manager:

“On average we go to the toilet eight times a day. It is one of the five key ADL (activities of daily living) criteria. Choice of appropriate equipment can make a huge difference in enabling someone to deal with a very intimate activity with little or no help from another person, be it a family member or care worker.

“Our guidance aims at providing an easy to use tool for anyone involved in delivery of care packages- in domestic or residential care environments- to get the best practical solution, balancing cost of care and the client’s health & wellbeing.”

Guidance on single handed care in the toilet

The guidance is available for free download from Closomat’s website, here (external link will open in a new browser window).

Closomat is Britain’s leading provider of enabling toilet solutions. Its Palma Vita wash & dry toilet is the brand leader, the only one of its kind developed specifically for disabled people, and the only one that can be accessorised retrospectively to address changing circumstances.

The company now has an online configurator tool for the Palma Vita which allows you to add various accessories to the base unit with a click, while also producing a cumulative price.

A useful resource for anyone who struggles to visualise the way that a new piece of equipment will fit into the home and work for them – which is most of us!

 
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Further reading and resources

You can see more about Closomat’s range of toileting solutions on their showcase page

We have an area of Independent Living dedicated to assisted toileting

You can read more about the debate over double or single-handed care here

 
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