Dad just moved from a large unit on the assisted living floor to a much smaller room memory care. He will be benefiting from the higher ratio of staff to residents and more appropriate programing. However , he seems to be getting trapped by his walker as he attempts to open the door. Even if he does manage to open the door, it falls back on his arm as he walks put leaning on the walker. His skin is fragile and bruises and bleeds easily. The facility want to solve the problem by propping the door open. But other residents are wandering about disoriented, so this doesn't seem like a good long term fix. Any ideas?
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The facilities manager needs to have a look at the swing arm that goes on the top of the door and controls how quickly it shuts. Oo, now, what are they called, those things?
But I agree with Captain that you need to handle this diplomatically. First of all sit down and closely watch your dad as he opens the door and walks through. Where exactly are the rubs? Then get back to the internet, look up door fittings for commercial buildings, and see what might help.
Oo 'eck! They're called swing-door operators and there are 1,420,000 of them on Google. Happy hunting!
i say listen to staff . what they do is a science and you can become an annoyance real quickly if you question them or argue with them much .
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