Skirt clip makes loo visit a cinch

Care staff who help elderly and disabled people with their personal hygiene and using the lavatory often find that skirts, nightdresses and long shirts that hang in the way can be a problem. The perfect solution now exists. With the new skirt clip from Helena Clip-on, skirts stay put and staff have their hands free for other tasks.

The skirt clip is an adjustable band with clips at each end. The band is placed round the neck and down under each arm, and fastened in the garment at waist height.

‘When the skirt clip’s in place, both your hands are free. The skirt doesn’t fall down and get in the way. Now you can get on with other things, instead of worrying about the garment getting soiled or hindering your work,’ says Helena Borg, who came up with the clip idea and runs the Helena Clip-on business.

Operations
Helena Clip-on sells the skirt clip throughout Sweden. Her main target groups are care services for the elderly and disabled at municipalities and county councils, but purchasers also include private care facilities for people with disabilities, and private individuals.

The business was started in early 2008 by Helena Borg, who now runs it singlehanded. Alongside her entrepreneurship, she works as a junior nurse at a special residential home for elderly and handicapped people in the municipality of Norrköping. She has worked in the care sector since 1973.

Pimm helped out
Pimm is a project in which ideas are captured from employees in public-sector healthcare and community care services.

‘I think it’s important to work out solutions to problems I run into in my everyday work. When I took part in Pimm I got the push I needed to realise one of my ideas,’ Borg relates.

‘It’s fun having creative, innovative people in the care sector who want to share their ideas. We’ve seen a great need for this product, and wish Helena all the best,’ says Anita Rosenquist, who is responsible for taking ideas forward in Pimm.