Solutions

Here you will find an archive of many previous REMAP solutions. These may be pieces of bespoke equipment or adaptations that have been made by REMAP volunteers. To find out more about an item, please click view details.

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Shower control lever

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The client, who has Parkinson’s disease, found the controls on his shower difficult to operate. The controls were cylindrical and smooth, meaning that there was little for him to grip.  A simple lever was clamped onto the control, making it... View Details

Long-reach shower controller

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The client needs to be seated when showering and, because of the configuration of the shower cubicle, is too far from the shower controls to reach them. A simple arm engages with the control knob and allows it to be... View Details

Shower chair comfort and safety modifications

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The client has a form of Cerebral Palsy called FOXG1 which results in regular random movements of the arms and legs. Although showering is carried out in a specially designed shower chair, the hard surfaces of the shower chair often... View Details

VitrA Shower Control Adaptation

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A 3D printed lock-on handle to assist a gentleman with reduced hand function to operate one of the controls on his VitrA shower mixer. View Details

Brake Modification on Shower Commode Chair

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The client uses a T70 shower commode chair for toileting and showering. As he lives alone without careworker support, he needs to operate both brakes by lowering the left lever, which needs to be higher and longer than the original.... View Details

Shower control adaptations

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3D printed control adaptations for a difficult to use shower for a lady with arthritis, to improve grip and leverage. View Details

Custom Bathboard

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The client required a bathboard to assist their access to bathing facilities in a care home. View Details

Securing an Otto Bock Robby bath frame

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Our client is a teenaged girl hoisted into a large/deep electrically adjustable bath, onto an Otto Bock "Robby" adjustable bathing frame shown below, set precisely to her support needs.   However, our client is inclined to move around a lot and... View Details

Changing mat guard rail

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The client uses a changing mat that fits over their bath. The mat folds up out of the way during bathing. This active child has learnt how to roll off the mat very quickly. The bath manufacturer makes a guard... View Details

Rising Shower Chair

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The client, a man in his early 70s, has a rare late-onset progressive muscle disorder (inclusion-body myositis). He currently is wheelchair dependent and relies on a full function powered (“Quickie”) wheelchair. He has almost no extension power in the knees... View Details

Shower step

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To help an elderly gentleman access the shower. A particular requirement for this step was that it should be small and light enough to store within the shower cubicle when not in use. View Details

Wash – Shampoo hair independently

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The challenge was to create an aid which would enable a young woman who is unable to raise her arms above shoulder height to wash, shampoo and condition her hair independently. View Details

Help for children with dwarfism

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Young girl with dwarfism was just starting school and required a way to reach the school wash basins and toilets View Details

Prop for enabling hair washing

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MsA is a wheelchair user and has a right hemiplegia. Following a head injury her scalp is very sensitive and she likes to wash her own hair, with help. Sitting in her wheelchair, she bends over the side of the... View Details

Shower Chair Headrest

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The referral from the Occupational Therapist said: "This child has SMA type I/II. She has really reduced active movement and is dependent on adults for all changes of position. She uses a specialist wheelchair and requires a high level of... View Details

Shower step

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The client has to step up to get into her shower (which she can manage) but stepping down to get out again is difficult for her. We agreed that she needs an intermediate step in front of the shower to... View Details

Chair for child washing at basin

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Jacob could not stand at the bathroom basin to wash. He could not bend his legs to sit in a standard high chair View Details

Bath transfer aid

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A young man with severe cerebral palsy and spasms was being lifted by his carers into and out of a Lecky bath chair for bathing, affecting their backs. The usual solution of a wheeled hoist was not suitable because the... View Details

Net curtain raiser/lowerer

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The client is having increasing difficulty removing her net curtains for washing and subsequently re-fitting them. Balancing on an unstable chair is no longer an option. View Details

Shower chair footrest

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The standard footrests of John's showerchair made it difficult to manoeuvre around the narrow doors and landing of his home. Removing them make the chair both narrower and shorter, but meant that the only way of moving about was to... View Details

Improved shower knob grip

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The six scollops of the client’s shower control valve knob were too shallow for our client to grip and turn as she has arthritis in her hands. View Details

Neptune bath lift control replacement

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Our client is in her 90's and a little frail and with arthritis. She was having difficulty pressing the thick rubber membrane covered switches to move her bath lift up and down. View Details

Short child’s access steps

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Fold out standing platform

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Margaux has skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism) and struggles to use bathroom facilities, particularly the washbasin, as a result. Her parents have tried various steps but they are very difficult for Margaux to use and lack sufficient stability. She really needed a... View Details