Shower Seats For Seniors.

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  1. Lon Tanner

    Lon Tanner Supreme Member
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    I had a built in shower seat in the home I sold but there is no seat in my apartment shower and the seat in this picture sure helps these aching joints & bones.

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    That is one of those chairs that raise the toilet seat for people who have trouble using a regular toilet. They make shower seats with a real seat on them, and then you would not have to use the toilet seat for both the toilet and the shower.
     
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    Yeah, the last thing I want is a shower seat with wheels.

    I was trying to lead Lon into explaining what he actually uses that chair for but I guess he shied away from that.
     
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    Wrong Yvonne---This particular chair is for the shower. It keeps your butt from sitting in a puddle of water. The wheels don't slip or slide.
     
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    Lon, the water in the shower would have to come up pretty high to hit the butt. If that happens, something is definitely wrong with the draining system.
     
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    Looks like it is called a shower/commode chair, @Lon Tanner , and can be used for either purpose. I have had a shower chair before , and mine was only for the shower, and it had a bench seat as opposed to the commode/shower chair like yours is. Here is a picture of one similar to yours, and showing the container for when it is used as a commode.

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    The one difference between the two is that Lon’s doesn’t have the back-lower crossbar. That tells me that it can be wheeled in to the bathroom and backed over the commode.

    At any rate, if it gets used in a shower, I can’t imagine it being used in anything except a shower stall and not a tub.
    Also, I see that the wheels all have brakes which generally cannot be implemented by a handicapped person. They have to be put into place by a caretaker.

    And just as a mention, if I’m going to take a shower, my butt had best be getting wet.....and scrubbed with lotsa soap too. If there’s one thing worse than having a wrinkled butt it has to be a dirty wrinkled butt.

    Note: Both seats could be a Super bowl fanatic’s dream come true. Throw a TV tray in front and a couple of drink holders on the side and you have the perfect football chair.
     
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    Here's my comfy shower chair
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    Lon,
    I'm not there yet I like picking myself off the floor. :)
     
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