To provide a bathing device which can be used in a bathing type or a bathing type by a single unit when bathing a person requiring care such as an elderly person or a physically handicapped person.SOLUTION: This bathing apparatus A makes it possible to take a bath with both a bathing person lying on a bedtime stretcher E and a bathing person sitting on a seatbelt chair F, comprising a long bath tub B for sleeping baths, While the stretcher E is approaching the long side edge b 1 of the bathtub B, the bathtub B is raised to a high position where the bathing person on the bed bath stretcher E can be bathed, and the sleeping bath stretcher E is evacuated And a chair loading / unloading machine D for loading / unloading a seatbelt chair F installed outside the short side edge b 2 of the bathtub B. The chair loading / unloading machine D is equipped with a bathtub elevator C which can lower the bathtub chair F to a low position where it can be lowered. Bathing persons lying on the bed linen stretcher E and bathers sitting in the chair for bathing in the bathroom B can be bathed in.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION【課題】高齢者や身体障害者などの要介護者の入浴をさせるに際し、1台で寝浴形式でも座浴形式でも利用できる入浴装置を提供する。【解決手段】寝浴用ストレッチャーEに仰臥した入浴者および座浴用椅子Fに座った入浴者の両方とも入浴可能とする入浴装置Aであって、寝浴用の長尺の浴槽Bと、寝浴用ストレッチャーEを浴槽Bの長辺側縁b1に接近させた状態で、浴槽Bを寝浴用ストレッチャーE上の入浴者を入浴させうる高位置まで上昇させ、かつ寝浴用ストレッチャーEを進入退避させることが可能な低位置まで下降させうる浴槽昇降機Cと、浴槽Bの短辺側縁b2の外方に設置された、座浴用椅子Fを搬入搬出する椅子搬出入機Dとを備える。寝浴用ストレッチャーEに仰臥した入浴者および座浴用椅子Fに座った入浴者の両方とも入浴可能とすることができる。【選択図】図1
