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My brother told me the other day that he had been in a public bathroom when a wheelchair-bound person come in to use the handicapped stall. He didn't want to offend the man, but was insanely curious how it was possible to get from a wheelchair to the toilet itself without being some crazy double-jointed left handed bodybuilder. In addition, when I looked at the bars and the space for the handicapped stall at my work the next day, I couldn't really figure it out either! Help assuage our combined curiousity?
#1 The person is not bound to the wheelchair. If they were they definitely could not use the toilet. They are a wheelchair user.
#2 A proper accessible stall has space to the right or left of the toilet to transfer to the right or left. Some people use sliding boards. They slide themselves over onto the toilet. Some can manage without a transfer board.
#3 A narrow accessible stall without the space to the right or left is more difficult. There are a few ways to do it. You can transfer onto the toilet seat sideways and then turn your body. Some can stand when they hold onto the grab bars just long enough to transfer. Some can take a few steps - and then they might just get up and use the toilet.
Grab bars are essential - to use for balance and to pull yourself.
Having the toilet paper and other recepticles placed in the right places are also essential. I have been injured several times in an accessible stall and it has always been from the same thing - the metal boxes they attach to the walls for "sanitary" products. I have cut myself on the sharp corners of them more than once.
A word about accessible stall etiquette. If there is an another stall to use - use it. If it is the only one available - go ahead - unless there is a chair user waiting. The chair user gets to go to the accessible stall first as soon as it becomes available.
Recorded on October 4, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Yes in Africain Rustlers Valley, where we had big parties, there was a toilet for just that ,
but it was a normal water toilet and the outlet was an organic solution with french drains and a septic tank
The compost toilets were just toilet housings that fitted over a hole .
and they were pre-made of a standard size
But many places do not considder wheel chairs
we did because one of the partners was in a wheel chair.
And what if the carer is female and the wheelchair user male?
I should add if a disabled toilet is not available
In most places these days you will find toilets 'For the Disabled' they are for both sexes !!!
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Im in a wheelchair and need a hoist and changing bed to go to the toilet. I've never been to florida before and was wondering if anybody could tell me if Disney had these facilities that I need.
There are definitely wheelchair accessible toilets. In fact the hotels will have wheelchair accessible bathrooms, too. Even some of the Fort Wilderness Cabins have accessibly bathrooms. You just have to ask when you book. Unfortunately though, I have never seen one with a hoist. You can always call Disney and ask though. 407-WDISNEY
You also won't have a problem with transportation. Buses and monorails as well as ferries are equipped to accommodate wheelchairs.
If you are someone's next of kin, or spouse, than you can have them committed to a facility, if you can prove to the state judiciary that said person has an inherent inability to care for themselves. This can only be done if you are the next of kin, spouse, or sometimes a sibling can do this as well. This is also true of mental conditions as well. But the main factor is being able to prove that if no action is taken, then that person is liable to do harm to themselves or others. Hope this helps.
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Why Architects Drink: Detail of the Week: a primer on ADA
I've decided to take the middle road today on the DotW and attempt to explain a bit about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which mandates that spaces and equipment must be designed so that most people with most disabilities can use public spaces without needing help from a staff member or having a helper with them. The ADA also has a book of how the spaces and equipment should be designed, called the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG). Architects also use the American National Standards Institute's space configurations (ANSI A117.1) because they are sometimes stricter than ADAAG. Recent revisions to ADAAG have made ADAAG more stringent, so we're back to using them. The ADA requires that a public facility make a real attempt to comply. There are requirements for how many toilets, desks, phones, etc. must comply with their regulations. For example, a facility with private sleeping rooms, like a hotel or hospital, is often allowed to make only one in ten rooms comply with ADAAG. (However, if your project receives government funds to be built, then all rooms must comply.) As a matter of fact, let's take a primary example of ADAAG space requirements for a lavatory and a toilet. Now, I should note that in architecture, we have sinks and lavatories. A sink is a stainless steel or aluminum basin that sits in a countertop. A lavatory is made of china, porcelain, or solid surface material that sits either in a countertop or can be mounted directly to a wall. So, we're dealing today with a basic lavatory and toilet in one room for use by one person alone. Let's look first at the requirements for a toilet: These requirements are pretty extensive. The plan shows how much space needs to be around the toilet, free from obstructions like walls, columns, pipes, anything. It also shows how the toilet need to be mounted, how high off the floor and how far away from the side wall. The elevation also show to locate the grab bars on the wall. Now let's look at the lavatory: Here again we see requirements for how big and how small the lavatory can be and how much clear space is needed around and underneath the lavatory. Lavatories with exposed drain pipes below (like the one in the elevation above) require insulation on them to protect knees from being bumped or even scalded if really hot water goes down the pipes. Now, when you put these two fixtures in a room together, there are additional requirements. A room needs to have a 30 inch by 48 inch space available for a wheelchair to maneuver into so the person can close the door behind them. Also, when the door is closed, the room needs to have a circle that's 60 inches in diameter in the floor that doesn't intersect the lavatory or the toilet so the wheelchair can turn completely around. These other requirements add even more space to a room. The hardest thing about ADAAG is that because maneuvering a wheelchair takes a lot of space, suddenly a hall that could suffice at 4'-0" wide now has to be at least 5'-0" wide. When this happens, suddenly we have a little less space that we thought we had to fit in a toilet room, three offices, and a copy alcove. Suddenly, the offices can only be 100 square feet instead of 110 square feet because the hall needs to be a little wider. This is often tough to explain to the users of a space. They say, "We don't get it; these bathrooms are huge! Here's what our existing bathrooms in our old hospital look like:" "Yes," we respond, "but your hospital was built before 1980, which is when the ADA was passed. Before then, you didn't have to hire handicapped people--they often couldn't find work because people wouldn't hire 'cripples'. But after the ADA was passed, you couldn't refuse to hire the person because of their incapacity, and you actually have to make provisions for them to work at your business. One of those provisions is making the can big enough to get a wheelchair in and around, so your new toilets have to look like this, at minimum:" ADA is a big deal these days in our litigious culture. There are ADA watchdog groups that go around to new buildings and measure clearances and will then file complaints against the facility if the clearances are even 1/4 of an inch too small. A toilet room can be off by 1/4 of an inch by a) construction tolerances (things get lost in the building of the walls) or b) because the design of the walls didn't account for the tile on them. The dimensions between the walls is to the face of the drywall, but tile adds another 1/4" to 1/2" to the face of the drywall. So, there you go--little things add up. I know of an architect whose contractor had to move all the patient room toilets over one inch after a code official came in and found that the toilets were 1'-5" off the wall instead of 1'-6". Crazy, y'all. From a legal point of view what Ted Kennedy did was really manipulative and dishonest. He should have created a law that empowered and required the code writing authorities to create the ADA standards. Instead he turned building codes into civil law to be settled in the court, rather than regulatory law that supposedly had some research and thought behind it. The ADA standards have improved over the years. The original law had no standards in it at all. All it really said was if a handicapped person cannot access your work place you can be sued. Everyone was searching for some guidance on how to deal with this law. There were all kinds of things circulating the first year. It has all finally settled down into the web site on your post. There are lawyers today who make a business out of filing hundreds of lawsuits over "ADA issues." It has gotten so bad that some lawyers have lost their right to bring lawsuits in certain jurisdictions. I am sorry that I cannot remember more details on the lawsuit situation. Remember, Congress is here to help you have better life. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said, "No one's life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session."
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