Handicap Grab Bar for Toilets
The design I chose to examine that is intended to help the disabled is a handicap support rail for restrooms. This product is specifically designed to help the elderly and disabled comfortably get up from the toilet. This design is simple yet very important for people who have trouble getting up or need extra support in doing so. This design is effective in use because it provides the user with additional support for standing up or making sure they do not fall over. The bathroom is normally a very private place so this design also allows the user to perform a task on their own when they may have needed additional support from another human if they did not have access to this.
This product is designed to fix the problem and not the person by allowing the person to use the product in order to get the desired outcome (sitting down on or standing up off the toilet). This product is fairly cheap and very reliable. I believe that because of the price and how effective it is, this is a great use of resources in order to help solve the problem at hand for people who need to be using one of these. People who may be excluded from this design or have trouble using it would be people who need more additional support than this and may not be able to lift themselves on their own power. In this case, this design is not fully effective for the user, but it still is in the same category as what that person may need to be using. I think this design is very smart in keeping it simple, sturdy, and safe so that the user can get the desired outcome without much strain. Because of this, I think that this design was used really well. I think that there can always be improvements on design but this one does not need more because of its simply goal. For the purposes of helping elderly or disabled persons up off the toilet, this design is effective and beneficial for all who use it.
