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- Single handed care- new guidance published
- Accessibility moves into a new level
- “Life-changing” trip to the doctor
- Therapy technology
- Eshcol House Nursing Home
- Changing design perceptions
- Core solution for disabled needs ‘away from home’
- Appropriate toilet specification can help meet special needs
- “Enjoyable” shopping experience delivered for everyone
- Changing Places at Morrisons
- Accessible or universal when away from home?
- Paediatric Bathroom Design in a Family Space
- Accessibility is riding high
- Preparing the ground for independent living
- 21st Century physics equip to answer basic needs
- Forward-thinking – through to inclusivity
- “Life changing” diagnosis inspires new vocation for championship footballer
- Access to toileting and sanitation as a basic human right.
- Adapting to help the whole family deal with arthritis, inclusion body myositis in London
- Toilet helps Margaret keep as healthy as possible
- Self-help extends right through to ‘spending a penny’
- Moto helps improve access ‘up north’
- Heading to the toilets improves accessibility of harbour facilities
- War of independence or: how a toilet is helping the fight against MS
- Torbay offers changing places on the English Riviera
- Leicester champions disability access
- Five star holiday access
- Bonaer Nursing Home
- Glenashling Nursing Home
- Motorway inclusion arrives at Gloucester services Southbound
- Wheelchair users’ accessibility enhanced
- Wetherspoon’s Lifeboat to the rescue for special needs
- “Air bnb” style venue for disabled holidays in Fife It even has ‘smart’ Closomat toilets
- Rising to the challenge of 21st century learning
- Heritage venue demonstrates best practice in putting people first
- The icing on the cake
- Theatrical approach to total hygiene
- Going large…
- Access the tools to adapt for change
- Centre of excellence extends support…
- Adapting to realise vision of optimum independence
- 21st Century learning environment fit for all….
- Copthorne extends luxury to all
- Changing a toilet brings independence and dignity
- Hospital goes to the toilet to help optimise outpatient user-friendliness
- Delivery of great brands on the motorway heads south
- Total approach to delivering quality respite care
- ‘Total’ approach to hygiene helps makes lifetime homes a reality
- Unique location for changing places
- Coasting to optimum housing accessibility
- Dundee council uses the toilet to improve education resources
- ‘Next generation’ Changing Places for shopping & leisure
- My toilet? It’s a godsend!
- “Beautiful” adaptation
- How to open up accessibility and inclusion
- Changing places riding high
- Total approach to a new generation of independence…
- Innovative provision for the disabled
- Getting in tune with limitations
- Leaving home when you’re disabled
- Best equipment for independent living
- Having the choice on how to deal with good days and bad days…
- Standing transfers – technique, strategies, and adaptations
- Teamwork in bespoke ‘tech’ specification helps restore couple’s dignity & independence in the toilet
- Wet ‘n’ wild changing places
- Giving vulnerable adults confidence – right through to personal care
- The best bathroom in the world..?
- Opportunity for thousands to go solo…
- Changing Places at the NEC
- Hospice turns to tech to deliver dignity and reduce dependence
- Becky’s innovative solution to dealing with IBS
- Award-winning destination demonstrates how to stay ahead of the competition
- Client toileting assessment needed? Closomat has all the answers.
- Older People: Falls prevention through bathroom design
- Future-proofing: Challenges and opportunities
- DFGs- optimising delivery and effectiveness
- The use of language in occupational therapy
- Accessible or universal?
- At your service…
- Webinar: Proportionate handling – environmental factors to meet the need
- Webinar: Grading bathroom activities for age appropriate occupations
- Webinar: Parkinson’s Disease and Housing Design
- “Outstanding” education includes addressing pastoral needs
- Holistically enhancing hierarchy of needs for pupils
- The Period Poverty that Nobody is Talking About
- Adapting to deliver ‘fantastic’ independence
- Webinar: Older People – Accessible Bathroom Design to Support Independent Ageing. 23rd February and 7th March 2023
- Webinar Bed-blocking and Occupational Therapy: Part of the Problem or the Solution? 27th Apr and 10th May
- DFG Waiting Lists, and Impact on Occupational Therapy Practice
- Webinar: Older people – Accessible bathroom design to support independent ageing, 23rd February and 7th March 2023.
- Webinar: Bathroom Design for Children and Adolescents – Planning for Adulthood
- Webinar: The impact of language – resilience et al. Sept 26th, 28th and Oct 9th
- Morrisons
- Lack of Changing Places toilets makes socialising incredibly difficult for disabled people
- Healthcare settings disabling patients through widespread lack of Changing Places toilets.
- Cinemas are not making the cut for disabled people because of lack of Changing Places toilets.
- Parent-carer publishes new toilet selfies to raise awareness of need for Changing Places toilets
- Wheelchair Rugby European Championship enjoyed by hundreds of disabled fans thanks to access at Principality Stadium
- NEC Birmingham
- Network Rail – London Victoria Station
- Changing Places specifications: what you need to know – part 2
- Changing Places specifications: what you need to know – Part 1
- Changing Places – a personal perspective
- Changing Places – Campaigner views…
- Changing Places and occupational justice
- Lack of Changing Places toilets makes Christmas period difficult for disabled people
- Ullapool Harbour Trust
- Government funding for Changing Places: where next?
- Why Kerrie is desperate for Changing Places in theatres
- Ikea – Gateshead
- North Norfolk District Council
- Form and function for optimum wellbeing
- Facilitating Safe and Independent Toilet Transfers
- Big, hidden toilet troubles
- What is 'independence' and is it relevant to occupational therapy in practice?
- Occupational therapy tips for toilet training
- Bathroom Adaptations Technical Training Tour
- Developing gross motor skills to assist with toilet transfers
- Tool to help determine living aid requirement
- Posture – Hints and tips for bathroom design to support long-term need and reduce care costs
- Is activity analysis, through objective assessment, a challenge to the application of future-proofing? – A professional reflection
- Impact of neurological trauma on bathroom activity
- Paediatrics – Common conditions and the impact on bathroom activity
- How ‘tech’ can help living with Multiple Sclerosis
- Paediatrics Common Health Conditions and the Impact on Bathroom Activity
- Rebecca's Congenital Condition and her Growing Independence meant her Toileting Needs Required a Rethink
- Steve's Story of Improved Wellbeing due to Bariatric Palma Vita
- Considerations in working with plus size (bariatric) people: Design, independence and dignity
- Learn at lunch: Future proofing to accommodate changing needs
- Reflection on meaningful occupation within toileting activities – the role of culture and cultural heritage
- Hints and tips for bathroom design: development stages
- Strawberry Field – Liverpool
- Carers Week 2023: our voices still desperately need to be heard.
- Cadbury World – Bournville, Birmingham
- Alton Towers Resort
- Post-stroke adaptations – rehabilitation and compensation
- Neurological – Impact of neurological trauma on bathroom activity
- Hints and tips for bathroom design: Spina Bifida
- Network Rail improves everyone’s ability to spend a penny (but it’s not charging for the privilege!)
- Tamworth Borough Council
- Changing Places by Closomat arrives on RIBA’s NBS service
- All going to the zoo
- 191 Local Authorities Win Share of £23.5m Fund to Install Over 500 Changing Places Toilets
- Could you hold it in for over nine hours to watch live music?
- Hints and tips for bathroom design: sensory needs
- Disability- the growing issue and how to accommodate it
- Neurology and Bathroom Design
- Reflections on holistic assessment within bathroom design
- What does the Health and Social Care integration white paper (2022) mean for occupational therapy services and their communities
- Considerations when hoisting a child in a bathroom
- Managing your independence
- Penny for your thoughts…
- Is it time to wipe your hands of toilet tissue?
- Adaptations and energy conservation – a strategy for independence
- Meeting current health and social care demand
- Toilet training with sensory processing difficulties
- Toileting and cerebral palsy
- Learn at Lunch: Plus Size Clients and Wash & Dry Toilets
- Giveaway for Changing Places Awareness Day – Free tickets to one of 15 top UK attractions (with a Changing Places toilet by Closomat)!
- And the winner is…
- Webinar: Adapting to Long Term Health Conditions – a Reflection on Bathroom Design
- DFG Waiting Lists, and Impact on Occupational Therapy Practice 8th Dec 2022
- Learn at Lunch Webinar: Plus Size Clients and Wash & Dry Toilets
- Opportunity + choice = justice: WORLD OT DAY 2022
- Legoland joy for family from Devon
- On the move…with his toilet!
- Rob Cain – disabled Royal Fusilier with fibromyalgia
- Jane's Story of Managing her Neurological Degenerative Disorder
- Toilet gets seal of approval from disability campaigner
- Swansea Station
- Stoke Bus Station
- Comprehensive approach helps deliver ‘best practice’ in accessibility
- ‘World-class’ facilities enable health & wellbeing
- What’s the story? A full house (of toilets)…
- Accessibility is no secret in Bletchley
- Changing places at Scotland’s biggest shopping centre
- ‘An inspiration’- in more ways than one
- Ask and you shall receive…!
- Lost Gardens of Heligan
- Extra accessibility on the motorway
- Regaining independence…
- Setting the standard in university inclusivity
- Marilyn Carr
- Extra care in helping people be independent
- Ulem Grant
- Independence restored!
- Lifting support
- Learn at Lunch: Who would benefit from a wash and dry toilet including how to get the best results?
- Growing need for adaptations
- Adapting to Long Term Health Conditions – a Reflection on Bathroom Design
- Adapt to the needs of ‘generation rent’
- Bathroom model to support “ageing in place”
- Warranty Vs Service Contract: Protecting your Wash and Dry Toilet
- Cardiff rises to the challenge of inclusion with support from Closomat
- ‘Outstanding’ special needs provision now extends to personal care
- Take a moment to manage change
- Expert accessibility
- Election pledge? Changing Places!
- The role of assistive technology in addressing social care funding for all ages- break with tradition
- Practical help to ‘tick the boxes’ in adaptation good practice delivery
- Think about toilets as part of tourism sector deal
- Choice of WC can achieve positive health outcomes- for life
- Call to improve public toilet provision
- Provision of equipment optimises social care budgets
- Zoo’s all inclusive
- Changing Places; an answer to Occupational Deprivation
- Improve facilities, attract customers – and get Government support
- “Better than a throne!”
- Accessibility gives students a lift
- Coping with a ‘life-changing’…
- A brilliant idea…
- Enabling toilet tech
- Having a lift!
- Holistic approach enhances quality of life
- Rural sophistication!
- Mental & physical health improved
- Holistic approach to toilet needs eases transition from home to school
- Video GTM
- Help patients spend a penny- free!
- How to make sure it is convenient for ALL customers to spend a penny- for less than 60p/day
- Moving & Handling – Facilitating Safe and Independent Toilet Transfers
- UK Wash and Dry Toilet Manufacturer, Closomat, strengthens its educational offering for Occupational Therapists
- Applying the Care Act preventative agenda to bathroom adaptations, clients with long-term conditions
- Future proofing the bathroom for clients with progressive conditions
- Supporting Safe Toilet Transfers Through Adaption and Design
- Bathroom design to support adults and children with sensory needs CPD qualified
- ‘Top tips’ for a successful accessible toilet adaptation
- One man’s solution to dealing with a life-changing accident
- Croes Atti Residential Home
- Helping turn disability into a positive
- Shared solution to independence
- Don’t be “out on a limb” with personal care
- Toilet helps unblock hospital bed….
- Accessible, adaptable bathrooms
- Multi-generational living? Don’t forget the toilet
- Older People: Falls prevention through bathroom design
- Diabetes and using the toilet
- UK ‘first’ heads to the toilet to help deliver flagship neuromuscular services
- Helping access adaptable housing
- ‘MARVELLOUS’ JOB
- Optimising independent living in social housing
- Helping regain quality of life
- ‘Easi’ solution for effective wetroom
- Making a difference to quality of life
- Piles of improvement…
- Alan Billinge
- Dr Kenneth Townend PhD
- Closomat helps ease progression to adulthood
- ‘Total’ independence helps Dan prepare for London 2012
- Active lifehouse
- Stroke unit goes to the toilet to help patient recovery
- Save the date! Closomat’s Occupational Therapy webinar series is back…
- Bathroom and falls – understanding the risks
- Bathrooms design – does appearance matter?
- Occupational science in relation to clinical reasoning underpinning toileting and bathrooms
- Review of Paediatric development stages with a focus on the environmental impact on occupation
- Facilitating Safe and Independent Toilet Transfers
- Holiday venue fulfills the dream
- Tackling life-changing disability
- A new toilet at home helped facilitate hospital discharge
- To wipe or to wash? Which gets you cleaner?
- Adapting to level the obstacles to independence
- Good Working Practices
- Covid 19 Statement
- Bishop David Brown School
- LEGOLAND® Windsor resort changing places
- Changing accessibility for the better
- Roadchef raises the standard in accessibility
- Pier Head – Liverpool
- Cherwell Valley
- East Midlands Airport
- Birmingham Airport
- Toddington Services
- Paddington Station
- Gatwick Airport – North Terminal
- Bournemouth Gardens
- Marwell Wildlife
- Rock and River
- The Lookout
- Calderstones Park
- Improving patient quality of care…
- Finchley Memorial Hospital
- Accessible Leisure
- Morrisons unveils its first Changing Places for disabled people
- Changing Places at Bullring…
- The Trafford Centre
- West Quay Southampton
- Ikea Edinburgh
- Frenchgate Shopping Centre
- Changing Places to achieve efficient ‘best practice’ delivery of youth services
- Award-winning venue expands accessibility
- Access all areas at LG Arena
- Wembley Stadium
- Doncaster Council’s Civic Office
- Manchester Town Hall
- The NEC Birmingham
- YMCA Lincoln
- Wilson Centre
- Warminster Town Council
- Heartlands
- Radar
- Trowbridge
- Apex Works
- Rugby world cup tries to extend Millennium accessibility
- Changing Places at the Orangebox to optimise youth potential
- Northcroft Leisure Centre
- George Carnall Leisure Centre
- Changing city centre accessibility
- Adding value to children’s education
- Future-proofing holistic approach to student needs
- ‘Whole life’ approach helps children realise their fullest potential
- Going to the toilet helps broaden college appeal…
- Cramlington School
- Lonsdale School
- Rose Hill Primary School
- Harrow College
- Thornton College
- King James College
- Bournside School
- Wakefield College
- South Birmingham College
- Oasis Academy
- Elmwood College
- Menai College
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