According to the National Institute on Aging, 80% of the
falls that seniors age 65 years old and older experience are in the bathroom.
The bathroom can seem like it is a safe room in your home, but it is full of
hazards and dangers. So in order to make your bathroom a safer place to be,
AbleMart sells a variety of bathroom
safety products for Harrisburg homes.
Bathroom safety products can make your tub, shower, toilet
and bathroom floor safer. There are a variety of these products available for
sale at our website. In the meantime, here are a few interesting statistics on
bathroom safety and how bathroom safety products can help.
Every year, about 235,000 people slip and fall in the
bathroom and injure themselves, according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Bathroom safety products like shower and commode chairs, grab
bars, non-slip treads and more can help decrease the risk of falling and
sustaining an injury.
Did you know that women are more likely to slip and fall in
the bathroom than men? There are a few theories as to why this is the case. For
one thing, women tend to have less lower body strength than men, and women tend
to be a bit less physically active than men. Plus, women tend to have a lower
bone mass than men, especially as they age. One of the biggest problems people
can experience in the bathroom is getting safely in and out of the tub or
safely on and off of the toilet. Bathroom safety products like grab bars and
shower and commode chairs can help with this and can help decrease the chance
of slipping and falling.
Two-thirds of bathroom injuries occur while the person is in
the shower or tub. So this means that a shower or bathroom chair and non-slip
bathtub treads can be a huge help. These are a few of our most popular bathroom
safety products, and we have several different kinds that will match your
bathroom’s décor and not detract from its aesthetics.
Also, getting injured while getting on and off of the toilet
is a problem too. Bathroom safety products like grab bars can help with this.
And they can be installed quite easily, which means no need for any major
renovation work.
