A delicate one this.
One of our bus operators wants to exclude a lady from their buses because
she regularly wets the seat. I don't think they have approached the person to
see if there is anything which they might do to ease the situation. Does
anyone have any suggestions which the bus operator could do before actually
excluding the passenger?
thanks
alan
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Yes indeed. This one needs an independent diplomatic person to speak to
that lady, not the bus driver whom this lady will have to face almost
daily, and thereby create embarrassing reminders of her incontinence. The
easiest solution is for the bus company is for drivers on her route to
supply free full-size disposable absorbent seat cushion pads anytime she
boards the bus and asks for one. Her travel pattern is highly predictable,
perhaps twice or four times a day, and her incontinence is
occassional. That is it will not require a heroic supply of pads to be
stocked on the bus. The cost effectiveness is the pads will cost a lot
less than the labor and time needed to clean up after her. I am pretty
sure the people in the places she visits will be equally grateful for the
incontinence seat cushion. The seat cushion should look ordinary enough so
that she can carry it in public without any one identifying it with her
disablilty. Hey, I think I may have just invented a disability product
with commercial possibilities.
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