Top 5 Benefits of Assisted Baths in Promoting Hygiene and Comfort in Care Facilities

The best care homes prioritise a better quality of life for their residents. This includes implementing comfortable, dignified bathing experiences that cater to hygiene and other healthcare needs. Professional assisted baths can improve the quality of care in your facility, creating a pleasant, nurturing environment for caregivers and patients battling mobility, afflictions, or dementia.

Protec Baths’ association with the care industry stretches over 30 years. During this time, we have identified five important benefits of assisted baths.

1. Relaxation

As you age or face posture or disability challenges, daily tasks like bathing can become increasingly difficult. That’s where assisted bathing makes life easier and more comforting. By redesigning a standard bathroom into an assisted one, you can enjoy a safer, more relaxed, and independent bathing experience.

For example, many assisted baths, like the hi-lo range, feature height adjustments with hoist panels to raise or lower the bath to a height that reduces exertion on entering or exiting. This functionality reduces stress from start to finish. It is exceptionally helpful to occupational therapists for users in groups 4 and 5 who acknowledge the importance of stress-free bathing to enhance relaxing hydrotherapy.

Read: What do families look for when placing their loved one in a Care Home

2. Occupational Therapy

Most caregivers understand they have a duty of care to ensure their patients or loved ones receive the right assistive equipment to maximise care, independence, and dignity. Quality assisted baths are designed to enhance occupational therapy, and many can be customised with additional features for overall sensory comfort. For example:

• Air spa systems create soothing bubbles that help reduce muscle, joint, and bone pain.
• Chromotherapy LED lights emit soothing colour-changing light to provide a calming ambiance for the user. This feature is especially useful to individuals suffering from dementia.
• Bluetooth sound systems allow carers or bathers to seamlessly connect to soothing music or audiobooks that bathers can listen to while they soak and relax.

3. Backflow Prevention

When you see an assisted bath, you will notice an unusual feature: the shower head attached to a Shepherd’s Crook. This isn’t merely an aesthetic choice; it serves an important function. This device prevents backflow to keep water hygienic and safe. It works by stopping potential contamination from the bathwater flowing back into the clean water supply.

Read: The Importance of Backflow Prevention for more information.

4. Temperature Control

Auto-fill and temperature-control assisted baths benefit young and old users. This labour-saving technology allows you to control and set the desired temperature of the water while automatically filling the bath to a pre-set depth. These features offer peace of mind to caregivers concerned about suitable water temperature and ensure comfort and familiarity to bathers. 

5. Increased Sense of Independence

Assisted baths do more than provide good hygiene for better health. They also provide a sense of comfort and security for the users and their loved ones, knowing that a once difficult task is now made easier, safer, and more pleasurable with the help of caring professionals.

At Protec Baths, we install custom-made, quality-assured assisted baths that are carefully designed for those who cannot care for themselves due to age, illness, or disability. As a company servicing personal homes, care homes, hospitals, and other facilities across the UK, we recognise that personal hygiene is crucial for patient care, infection control, and overall wellbeing. 

Please contact us for more information: 01726 438694 / sales@protecbaths.com