Bagel- the simple way for unrestricted support in the water. Makes bath-time safe and fun.
One of the biggest restrictions for anyone with limitations- and their carers- when bathing or participating in aqua therapy is achieving strain-free support in the water.
AAT’s Bagel removes that restriction.
It restores the person’s ability to free float without any risk of head immersion by stabilising and supporting their head above the water without restricting their body.
Utilising innovative vacuum technology, you can precisely and infinitely mould the core cushion to each user. Hook and loop straps secure the cushion in place, thereby positioning the buoyancy on the chest and torso. This relieves pressure on the neck and head, ensuring safe, proper stability and relaxation whilst immersed in the water.
As a result, it enables all areas of the user’s body to be easily reached and cleaned during bathing, and allows full movement and thus flotation benefits of hydrotherapy to be enjoyed.
"Bagel supports all involved to get the most out of basic ADLs such as bathing or aquatherapy.
It ensures the client receives the full benefit of their hydrotherapy or bath experience, by having the safety and freedom to free-float.
“As importantly, it relies the carer of the physical strain of having to support them- particularly an issue in bathing, when you’re trying to balance properly supporting the head above the water, over the side of the bath, and perform the hygiene routine.”
Peter Wingrave, AAT Director
Find out more and book a free, no obligation assessment here:https://www.aatgb.com/bagel/
Bagel is just one element of AAT’s innovative support solutions to help with water-based scenarios. Details of the full range of options are available here: https://www.aatgb.com/bathing-solutions/
We are proving we're not just the stairclimber people, but experts in other specialised areas too.
We developed Aqua Liberty as a supported bathing solution, working with Occupational Therapists to devise the system.
Now we are now pioneering a scheme to support OTs in fast, appropriate, practical prescription.
Aqua Liberty is the first- and to our knowledge only- supported bathing system that fits any user and any bath.
It means the client gets the full hygiene and therapy benefits of body immersion in the water, correctly supported and stabilised in the water without pressure points.
It delivers a fast solution that means no need to change the bath, with all its associate cost and disruption.
Social care support and involvement can be reduced or eliminated. It makes the bathing process is less stressful for the care giver.
Other family members can also continue to enjoy bath time.
Its comparative low cost means it can often be funded without the whole Disabled Facilities Grant process involved in bath replacement.
To help OT teams prescribe more efficiently, we are equipping them with all the resources and support necessary.
By training either a member of or the whole team, and providing them with the kit needed, we are empowering OTs to be able to exactly configure equipment to the client’s individual needs, prescribe and order it.
In this way, supported bathing is achieved within days rather than months.
Occupational Therapists are already welcoming the scheme, with our team demonstrating the Aqua Liberty system, and training OT teams every month.
“We are all aware that the delay in organising funding for bathroom adaptations is one of the biggest issues facing OTs and their clients. The development of Aqua Liberty as a supported bathing product, and our OT programme, means that delay, in appropriate circumstances, becomes a thing of the past.
Peter Wingrave, AAT Director
The Aqua Liberty programme builds on a similar scheme we have been operating successfully for more than a year with our Gravity Chair foam positioning system, for children and young people with severe and complex motor and sensory disabilities. Particular success has been achieved in Sefton alongside Alderhey Children’s Hospital, because of the Chair’s effectiveness, simplicity and practicality in prescription.
To arrange an initial demonstration and discuss becoming part of the Aqua Liberty programme, contact our head office via sales@aatgb.com, or telephone 01978 821875.
