Video - Introducing the Komodo Chair

We see too often that older people are taken into hospitals or care homes when they begin to struggle with everyday tasks and consequently fall into ill health, no longer able to manage looking after themselves on their own. However, assistive technology can help the elderly maintain their health and remain in their own homes for as long as it is possible and safe to do so.

Over a six week period in November and December 2019, we were asked to introduce a new and novel “assistive technology” into the day to day running of our busy, 58 place residential care home. 

Using the bathroom is one of the most potentially dangerous tasks we undertake in daily life. Figures indicate that more accidents and falls happen in the bathroom more than any other room in the home. Specifically, getting in and out of the bath and shower and getting on and off the toilet. Yet so little thought actually goes into providing the appropriate support equipment which can reduce that very risk and make it a safe haven, for both the user and their carer.