Adapted bathrooms

[whataboutbob]

My father has Alzheimers, he lives with my brother in his own home. Lately as his illness has progressed we have had to face a new problem: helping him out of the bath. He gets in OK but just will not come out. Yesterday i had to step in the bath and lift him ,while my brother pulled him up which wasn t ideal, apart from potential back damage to me/ bro, it was probably painful for him.
Dad has carers everyday and they are starting to say they can't bathe him anymore. Baths are important as unfortunately he now has night time incontinence.
Has anyone experienced converting a bathroom with bath to walk in shower? Or had an adapted bath put in? what are the costs? The space really is small, there's just room for a standard bath, a sink and a loo it's maybe 6 foot square. As my bro also lives there, he'd rather there was a bath than just a shower.We don't really have thousands to spend though. Thanks for any advice/ insights.

DH's aunt had a hoist fitted to the bathroom - and it was done via social services. It is a battery operated one.

You either need a ceiling hoist as mentioned by PP - which would depend on where the joist were above the ceiling or one of the many designs of bath lift seats may help:
www.careco.co.uk/item-s-BA01007/ba-ba01-bath-lifts/bathing-cushion/?gclid=CMS4r_7el8gCFdUaGwodRKQGYAA

A bath lift seat would raise your father to the top of the bath and enable you to swing his legs around and help him get out without the need to lift him.
Sounds like he needs an assessment by an Occupational Therapist.

We had my DMs bath ripped out and replaced with a walk in shower. Just got a plumber to do it rather than a specialist firm. It cost £2000 (including some electrical work that needed doing) but there is just her in the house now so no need for a bath. (She doesn't have dementia though but was too infirm to get in and out of the bath.)

Thanks both for your very useful advice. I have just emailed Dad's key worker at the dementia team, who is an OT so i'm hoping he'll be able to offer some good advice.