PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bathtub for nursing care allowing a bather to easily sit in a bathtub and a caregiver to approach to the bathtub and facilitating the nursing care by securing a space for inserting the tiptoes of the caregiver and the heels of the bather.SOLUTION: This bathtub is characterized in that the base of a bathtub body is provided apart from a floor face, a swing device for opening/closing by swinging a door wall is provided, the door wall, in a state of opening the opening part, is stored between the lower part of the base and the floor face with a clearance formed open to the opening part side and, even in a state of closing the opening part, the clearance is secured.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】介助者のつま先や入浴者の踵が入り組むスペースが確保されており、入浴者が浴槽内に腰掛けやすく、介助者が浴槽に接近して介助を容易に行うことができる介護用浴槽を提供することにある。【解決手段】浴槽本体の底面が床面から離間して設けられ、扉壁を扇動させて開閉するスイング装置を備え、扉壁が、開口部を開いた状態で、底面の下方と床面との間に、開口部側に開放された空隙をもって収納され、扉壁が開口部を閉じた状態でも、空隙が確保されていることを特徴とする。【選択図】図2
