Dignified Spaces: Bariatric Design Requirements for Care Settings
4 March 2025
Episode S5E3:
Bariatric care is a crucial consideration in care settings, and specifically addresses the needs of plus-sized individuals. TAD host, Lori Pinkerton-Rolet, talks to expert Tracy Carr, of Fat Lot She Knows, to explore essential design solutions, including supportive furniture, wider spaces and staff training to create safer, more inclusive spaces that cater for higher weight needs. This month’s Innovation Spotlight shines a light on a robust, yet impressively compact, mobility scooter that offers individuals with limited mobility greater comfort and independence.
- Guest: Tracey Carr, Fat Lot She Knows
- Bariatric beds – wissner-bosserhoff
- Ultra-low bariatric beds – Innova Care Concepts
- Bariatric Room Solutions + link for Clinical Focus Guide for Architects and Planners – Arjo
- Innovation Spotlight: ATTO Portable Mobility Scooter – Moving Life
About Tracey Carr
Tracey Carr is a leading advocate for the better care and understanding of larger patients. Working through her consultancy, Fat Lot She Knows, she is passionate about enabling larger people to live their best lives at any size. She aims to give healthcare professionals insight into creating the positive changes that are needed to ensure equity of care.
Tracey works as a consultant to a number of leading healthcare companies and as an advocate for better outcomes for plus sized patients. She has developed seminars on maintaining dignity, and on improving communication for people of size, which she has delivered at a wide range of hospitals and clinical training establishments across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and most recently in the U.S.
In addition, Tracey works as part of a team delivering training in the moving and handling of plus-sized patients. She also advises a number of leading companies during the research and development stages of bariatric product manufacturing and bariatric facility design.
Tracey’s enthusiasm and honesty, along with her willingness to share her personal experience of navigating life as a person of size, make her an engaging and thought-provoking speaker.
