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[dom]

hi all
just interested in everyones thought on using 'disabled conveniences' i heard [have read] that some wheelchair users think that these provisions should be solely for their use for reasons of manoueverability etc,whilst i understand and agree with this i think it should include all people with a distinct problem with using a loo
for example a walking para with bladder/bowel paralysis should also be entitled to use this facility for the following reasons- filling up of cath bag should'nt have to be done in full view of the public [they may think its drugtaking etc], alot of 'ordinary loos don't have a receptacle for soiled gloves/caths etc and you can't put them back in your pocket
plus doing digital evacuations take time and concentration and you can't get this if you have an 'audience' outside waiting to get in, happy to have your thoughts on this dan

[Jilly]

Hi Dan... I think that anyone who has a problem using a loo should be able to use disabled toilets. Like you said sometimes you dont need an audience!

[sjean423]

I think I replied to your same post somewhere else too, but I agree, they should not be limited to wheelchair users. Anyone with a legitimate need for them whether wheelchair bound, needing extra space for a walker or needing the grab bars because of balance should be able to use them.

[Gary Anderson]

I have replied to this thread before as well.

If you are totally disabled, or incompletely disabled, you can through RADAR obtain a key which allows you access to disabled only toilets.

I do think we have the right to our own toilets compeltely unvandalised by neds.

My Mum has arthritis and she has a RADAR key. So, all you need do is contact RADAR type it into your search engine, send the money and bob's your uncle.

[mttb14]

Hi Dan,

I totally agree that disabled toilets should mean anyone with a toilet disability.

When John has to self cath, there are times when he needs me to be with him, due to spasms and co-ordination problems.

I certainly could not go into a men's toilet and I don't think too many females would want him in their toilet facilitiies.

This opens up another problem, as some places have female disabled toilets and male disabled toilets which makes life really awkward when he's male and I'm female.

Not all planning departments, or planners in general think these matters through properly.

Maybe they should spend a month in the company of a wheelchair user or disabled person.

Maria

[kanga2433]

OK, so I am in a town in Fife where tourists come in huge numbers for some sort of hitting a tiny ball round lots of green space - you know what I mean don't you? Anyway in a town know all round the world we have only one NKS toilet down on a car park quite a way from the town centre. Our town loos have just been done up and are probably very nice now and probably have a disabled loo, (though one for men and one for women) but that are only open 9 - 5.

Never mind who might need a loo, don't need one after 5pm or you are stuck! How good is that?

[Joed]

I've noticed many 'family' restrooms here in the US, where both sexes can go in. Most reststops along the interstates have these, as well as some 'off the beaten path'. I've used these on occasion when my son was younger, yet had started to resist coming into the women's restrooms with me. I couldn't let him go into the men's by himself at that age, not only for safety reasons considering his young age, but because he'd spend an hour in there playing with the automatic faucets and air dryers!

[Jilly]

If I had to go into a mens loo to give someone help I would....Our disabled loos only have one toilet in them anyway so it wouldn't matter.

I went into the mens loos at the pub a few years ago - a friend of mine had gone in and fallen asleep - standing up, propped up with one arm up against the wall ! I got nominated to try to get him out! No mean feat believe me but absolutely hilarious!!! At least he had his pants up!!! There was nothing in there that I hadnt seen before!!