CPD Presentations

Design Advice From the Accessibility Experts

With over 40 years’ experience designing accessible bathrooms and kitchens, we’re proud to offer free CPD seminars at your choice of location, or at either of our Worcestershire or Cheshire showrooms.

Complete our contact form and we’ll get in touch to arrange the details.

 

Designing Accessible Kitchens

This CPD presentation focuses on key design principles and considerations to design an accessible kitchen. We walk you through step-by-step of how to put the individual client at the centre of the design process, giving an overview of what needs to be considered and emphasising that design must focus on use rather than space.

Level-Access Showering

This presentation focuses on delivering learning about how level access can be created in the bathroom to enable people with mobility needs to access showering area safely and freely. The presentation gives details about the benefits of creating level access with a wet room formers as well as shower trays and what key considerations need to be taken into account when specifying these solutions.

Dementia-Friendly Bathroom Design

A presentation focussing on how a dementia-friendly bathroom is one where simple but careful consideration of design can reduce the barriers that people with dementia can face in carrying out daily living activities, greatly improving their safety and preserving their independence for as long as possible.

Sight Loss & Dementia-Friendly Bathroom Lighting

This CPD presentation focuses on delivering learning about visual impairment, dementia friendly bathroom lighting and most importantly task focused lighting. This presentation highlights how the bathroom is a high risk area for falls and who is most at risk from poor lighting and unsuitable flooring. Furthermore it showcases the solutions AKW provide to reduce the risk of falls and slips in the bathroom.

 

 

 

Available at your choice of location or at our Worcestershire showroom – you can book a CPD event by completing the form here or contacting us on 01905 823 274.

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