I bought a transfer bench for my Mom to take a shower. The shower is a full bathtub/shower combination. She was sitting on the side of the tub and swinging her legs in, then standing, but we're hoping she can sit and shower, now.
I have the bench in the tub with it right under the shower head and I realized that I don't quite know how to arrange the shower curtain.
With the transfer bench, there, I can't pull the shower curtain along the tub to keep the water in as we did when Mom just took a shower.
Or, to soak it up from the floor? Or, whatever ideas you have on this are helpful.
Before someone suggests a fancy bathtub, this is what we can afford AND we need something, right now for her. So, waiting to install a fancy tub isn't ideal plus there's just not the money for something like that.
Also, now that we've had the transfer bench for awhile, Mom loves it, plus her occupational therapist thinks it's the right choice for her, so we really do want to make it work in every way possible. It allows her to shower 100% independently. It took a visit to the occupational therapist to get it out of her how she washes her bottom as she doesn't like to talk about it, but she kind of scootches around and pushes her butt up a little by grabbing her bench.
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