An essential item in any home, especially in the bathroom, grab bars are available in a range of styles to best suit your needs.
Use them as grip rails in the toilet or bath, as support in the shower with suction cup bars, or for added versatility with support systems or right angle bars—the choice is yours! Some solutions can be used throughout the home. Feel free to call our customer service team or contact one of our sales representatives to find the best solution for your home or your customer's home.
Safety is a priority for many disabled and elderly people who want to adapt their bathroom or toilet. This is particularly important when getting up, for example from a shower chair or the toilet seat.
However, shower grab bars for people with reduced mobility are mainly used as support bars, i.e. to hold on to while standing or to help bend down. There may be a risk of falling for elderly people, but grab bars in toilets and bathrooms are also used to reduce pain in the joints.
To make your toilet safe, take a look at our toilet armrests.
To make your bathroom safe, a non-slip mat is an essential accessory for the shower, bath or bathroom floor.
Which grab bar for which use?
The 135° angled grab bar is useful for wheelchair users in the toilet, to help them transfer from their wheelchair. Thanks to its design, it is also a grab bar for people with reduced mobility, making it easier and safer to stand up.
It can be installed next to the bathtub to help users get up from a suspended bath seat or any other type of seat.
The lift-up grab bar is typically used in professional establishments to comply with PRM standards, allowing users to push the bar away when not in use. When designing PRM toilets, consider also installing a toilet seat riser.
Many bathroom bars are straight and measure approximately 30 cm. These short bars are more like grab rails for the shower or bathtub, sometimes fixed at an angle. There are also longer PRM grab bars and T-shaped bars for the shower.
The installation of a WC grab bar for people with reduced mobility must comply with standards for public buildings. The height of a grab bar in a PRM toilet must be between 70 and 80 cm. Ideally, the upper end of an angled bar should not exceed 110 cm in height from the floor. The distance from the toilet bowl should be between 40 and 45 cm.
The price of a PRM grab bar
Grab rails for elderly and disabled people come in different sizes and formats, but also in several materials and with various fixing systems. You can find small PVC suction cup grab rails as well as large stainless steel rails that can be screwed to the wall. These elements mean that prices vary greatly. The price of a grab bar can range from around £20 to £100. Some T-shaped models for the shower and other large systems for support or assistance in standing up can cost more than £150.
Choosing a grab bar with Identités
Identités offers a wide range of support, lifting and mobility solutions for elderly people and people with reduced mobility, including:
suction cup grab bars for the bathroom,
stainless steel L-shaped grab bars for the shower,
stainless steel models and modular models,
angled grab bars for people with disabilities,
and fold-down toilet grab bars.
About us
Identités is a French company located in St-Barthélémy-d 'Anjou, near Angers in the Maine-et-Loire. For more than 15 years, we have been providing solutions to improve the comfort and autonomy of elderly and disabled people in their daily lives.
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