Toilet seat - modification of ordinary wheelchair

Toilet seat - customized wheelchair seat, facilitates bathroom visits when traveling.

Description
This modification makes it easy to deal with bathroom visits when the user travels.

A round opening was made in the seat (under the cushion) of the user's wheelchair. A plate of the same material as the wheelchair seat is attached with Velcro straps over the opening (Photo 2), but this is more for "cosmetic" purposes and is only used to prevent the hole from being seen.

Authors comments
Works when it is necessary to drain the bladder outdoors in nature, in inaccessible environments, behind a bush, over a "standing toilet," or indoors with a bucket under the chair. When she is outdoors the side support also provides some privacy.

She has had great use for this solution on many trips abroad or when visiting friends in their vacation home.

Manufacturer
Assistive device center

Idea
The user received a tip about this wheelchair seat and the modification is a copy of it.

Tip is dated from 2007

Categories for this tip
self care » toileting, travelling » self care on trips, Tips and tricks from people with High paraplegia with impaired balance (Th 2-10, ASIA A, B).