If you have room and available funds, I would suggest a shower with a very low lip with the ability to push a shower chair in the door. You may want to search out some aging-in-place certified contractors as they would know much more about this. Contractors that are familiar with ADA (American Disabilities Act) requirements might also be a good resource.

Hopefully, we’ll get some answers from other users for you.

~ Shelley

Andy

I would just advise that you visit a showroom where she can stand and sit in order to test it out and that you bring your bathroom’s measurements with you.

Best wishes,

Shelley

This walk-in tub post is the #1 searched and read post on my site so if a more accurate representation of this tub can be shown, then all the better.

It is expensive, complicated, claustrophobic, permanent and not conducive to aiding the backs of caregivers who might be assisting. The one good thing about it is it’s high side walls which help to keep elders from falling out of the shower.

My feeling is that a better choice would be a ground-level entry shower with a door wide enough for a wheelchair or shower chair to enter. Aging in place designers have some wonderful options.

Thanks again for writing, Angela. It gave me the chance to reiterate my feelings. My father has passed on now and the walk-in tub remains unused because it’s not a pleasant experience to use it.

My mom, who is *highly claustrophobic* and vulnerable at this stage of her life, has been convinced by the excessive ads that she needs one of these tubs and that it will give her freedom of some sort which is odd since she showers with absolutely no issues.

I agree that some seniors might benefit from these tubs, but we were sure from the get- go that this was not something my mother would benefit from at all. Unfortunately the ads are still calling to her and my father is beside himself, knowing she has never particularly liked baths, but afraid that she will go ahead and order it the next chance she gets regardless of his concern and the fact that it will remove the sole shower from their home and make it into an odd bathing arrangement.

I might add that she does not have dementia, but that she has recently been released from the hospital and is recovering from a major illness. Also, if it would even possibly benefit her we would both be more than happy to get one regardless of price.

Again I applaud your honesty and publication of your review to counter the dozens of sellers who have flooded the market with glowing “reviews” that are obviously planted by spammers and those who want to sell the tubs. My favorites being from concerned “children” who did not have to put their aged parents into a senior home because this product gave them complete independence and relieved all their worries.

Sincerely,
Angela