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jacksplace chooses Pressalit Care bathrooms for independence and comfort

jacksplace, a purpose built hospice for young adults, has chosen specialist bathrooms from Pressalit Care for its new, state of the art facilities. Part of the Naomi House Children’s Hospice in Winchester, jacksplace provides palliative care, including respite, terminal and bereavement care to young adults and their families from central southern England.
Recently opened by the Countess of Wessex, jacksplace has six bedrooms for residents, each with its own en-suite bathroom facilities. The bathrooms, which include a range of Pressalit Care products, have been designed and fitted out to meet the hospice’s ethos of offering its residents a comfortable, caring and supportive home-from-home.
The bathrooms were designed following a visit by Naomi House staff, and architects Architecture PLB, to Pressalit Care’s test facilities at Brunel University. Here they were able to look at different layout and product solutions and see how the products are able to adjust both horizontally and vertically to adapt to different user situations.
With over thirty years of designing specialist products for bathroom applications, the Pressalit Care range is the result of extensive knowledge gained from working closely with residential and health care clients across the UK and Scandinavia. Its portfolio of bathroom furniture and fittings combine the importance of functionality and ease of use, with a clear focus on quality, aesthetics and comfort.
The innovative track system, for example, allows a height adjustable basin to be moved horizontally to adapt to different user situations, allowing for wheelchair access or giving a carer sufficient space to assist.
Each bathroom at jacksplace has been installed with Pressalit Care’s track mounted, gas assisted basin brackets; track mounted height adjustable toilet support arms; track mounted shower chairs; Aquaclean bidet toilets; track mounted shower taps; and opening shower curtain rails for hoist access.
Ray Kipling, chief executive of Naomi House says,
“The new bathrooms form a valuable part of the amazing new facilities at jacksplace. Having a bathroom that is designed to offer such a high level of independence for our residents means that they retain their self-esteem and dignity, which is so important for the young people who find themselves here.
“Where our residents need the assistance of a carer, the horizontal and vertical tracking mean that items such as the basins and shower chairs can be easily adjusted to provide a safe working environment.”
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Naomi House and jacksplace are hospices for children and young adults that provide palliative care to children and young people. Since Naomi House first opened in 1987 it has helped nearly 600 families from Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, Surrey and Wiltshire.

Pressalit Care is a leader in furnishings for people with physical disabilities. Pressalit Care believes that the environment should compensate for physical limitations and this fundamental idea is included in the smallest detail throughout its solutions.



For further information, contact:
Andrew Lowndes, Pressalit Care, Tel: 0844 880 6950
Penny Adair, PR Consultant, Tel: 0117 9040173