Free2Pee
About this project
Makers designed a sling to help transfer and use the toilet. The person is lifted off the wheelchair on a sling with a hole in it. They then move in a channel to transfer the pee into the toilet.
The challenge
Women with disabilities, like all women, need to pee. But wheelchairs are designed as if the female and male bodies are the same. Disabled males don’t need to transfer out of their wheelchairs to pee, but women and girls do, which is difficult to do independently. Power wheelchairs don’t have a feature that makes it easier for people who can't get out of their wheelchairs to pee. Many women with power wheelchairs don’t work only because there is no easy way for them to use the bathroom.
Who it helps
The need knowers are female wheelchair users.
Project details
- Stage: Concept
- Built by the Bay Area community, Bay Area, United States of America
- Category: Daily Living
- 18 downloads
The build files for Free2Pee are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.
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