Changing Places

Changing Places Presentation

Importance

Designs

Promotion

How you can assist

Life without toilets•Imagine a life without toilets

• The standard accessible toilet is not functional for all people with a disability

• Barrier to social inclusion

• Options without toilets

Impact • This impacts severely on individual’s quality of life

• There are 58.2 per cent of Australians living in households with a profound or severe core activity limitation require assistance with self care

• Up to 200,000 Australians with severe or profounddisability may require a change table and hoist(AIHW, 2009)

The choice carers face everyday

Proven Solution – Changing Places toilet

• Changing Places toilets commenced in the UK in 2006.

• Extra features and more space

• This may include people with an ABI, cerebral palsy, MS, spina bifida, motor neurone disease…etc and their carers.

Each Changing Places toilet provides: • - a height adjustable adult-sized changing bench• - a tracking hoist system• - safe and clean environment• - enough space

Key Features• Additional grabrails

• A centrally placed toilet

• Room coverage hoist system

• Adjustable height change bench

• Washbasin & integrated shelf

• Waste bin

• Disposable change bench cover dispenser

• Automatic door

• Hand dryer

Changing Places campaign • shopping centres• premium train stations• aquatic facilities• major sporting and recreational complexes• major cultural facilities• civic centres• airports• hospitals.Changing Places toilets should be provided in

addition to standard accessible toilets

Changing Places website• A map with all the locations of Changing

Places toilets• Changing Places Campaign kit• Current local campaign you can join• Template letters• Changing Places information kit• Design specification• Section for developers, architects..etc• Case studies• Videos• News

www.changingplaces.org.au

Choice

• To stay or return home

• Sitting in soiled clothing

• Dirty toilet floors

Changing Places would provide me freedom to live a life with more choices about what I do, where I can go and when I can do it

Current Supporting OrganisationsAssociation of Consultants in Access Australia Inc (61 in total)Australian Physiotherapy AssociationCarers Victoria Centre for Developmental Disability HealthChildren with Disability AustraliaEastland Shopping CentreEnware Australia Pty LimitedGrocon GroupNational Disability Services Victoria Parks VictoriaVictorian Chapter Royal Australian Institute of ArchitectsVictorian Equal Opportunity Human Rights CommissionMODE DesignBKK ArchitectsHSPC Disability Access Consultancy

National SupportAustralian Local Government Association – MAVOccupational Therapy Australia Property Council AustraliaAustralian Federation of Disability OrganisationsAustralian Institute of Building SurveyorsPlanning Institute if AustraliaUrban Development Institute of AustraliaNational People with Disabilities and Carer CouncilNational Disability Insurance SchemeNational Disability and Carer Alliance

Victorian government support

• September 2014, Victorian government announced funding for six fixed Changing Places and one mobile changing facility

• Three placed at MCG, Melbourne Zoo and Rod Laver Arena

• Three to be decided in consultation with the Victorian public

• Online poll on Changing Places website resulted in over 300 votes in one week

• Most popular locations so far shopping centres, parks and gardens and sporting and entertainment facilities

Changing Places at Ringwood Lakes

Officially opened 1st October 2014

• Located close to playground which includes a liberty swing

• Convenient location off highway for access by travellers

• Accessible by Mlak key holders – extra keys held at customer service centres

Media coverage

Quote“I have to lay him down on dirty public toilet floors with his head under the pan where someone else has just peed.

I don’t like putting my handbag down on some floors; why on earth should I be expected to lie my precious son on them”

Moving into the 21st Century

• 1775 - The first patent for the flushing water closet was issued

to Alexander Cummings. 1852 first public toilet (flushing).

• Since then technology and human rights has enormous advances

• In the meantime in 2013 we have people with a disability and their

families still waiting for their first toilet in their local community

• Changing Places for a moment, imagine a community

for you without toilets