Private Door Openers
PO Box 367
Lombard, IL 60148
Toll Free: 1.800.249.0674
Phone: 1.630.629.1213
Fax: 1.630.629.1230 Email Us
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Independent Living Communities
A Resident's Door Should Not Be an Obstacle to Independence!
Sometimes an obstacle is not recognized,
until a solution becomes available.
Independent Living communities provide seniors with the environment and
amenities that offer a quality of life purposely intended for them. The
Private-Door Assistant promotes this lifestyle by removing the barriers
that doors are to residents who use wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and
canes. With
the Private-Door Assistant, the opening and closing of a door becomes a
simple act again, instead of a challenge. Current and prospective
residents will appreciate the effort you have taken to ensure their
accessibility to the facility's amenities and social functions when you
offer a Private-Door Assistant.
Private-Door has developed the "Independent Living Program" to assist
managers in determining how best to provide the convenience of Private-Door
with minimal or no cost to management. Click here to receive the
"Independent Living Program".
To download the Independent Living Booklet that will explain all the
benefits of a Private-Door to your residents
click here.
What Are Private-Door Automatic Door
Operators
Private-Door
automatic door openers are life-enhancing products that were purposely
designed to address the special needs of senior living. Private-Door
simplifies the day for residents who use wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and
canes by automating the doors to their apartments. Private-Door is a
signature amenity that current and prospective residents will see as an
exceptional service your organization provides to enrich their lives.
Enrich The Quality Of Life For Residents
Independent
Living Facilities provide an environment and amenities to seniors that
assure a “quality of life” that is purposely intended for them. Because a
majority of residents use either a wheelchair, walker or cane everyday,
facilities are designed to accommodate these assistive devices.
Until Private-Door no affordable door operator was available to automate a
resident's apartment door.
Private-Door promotes a self-reliant lifestyle by removing the barrier their
apartment door can be to their independence. Private-Door simplifies their
day by making the opening and closing of their apartment door a simple act
again. With remote control convenience, residents will enjoy uninhibited
access to activities and services they value most.
Enhance The Facility's Image
Concerned providers give careful and
thoughtful consideration to the
individual as well as the collective needs of the residents. They provide
specialized services, social activities, security and other amenities.
Private-Door complements these efforts by assisting the residents to be
self-reliant, enabling them to easily participate in scheduled community
events. Prospective clients will recognize and appreciate the effort taken to ensure
accessibility to their apartment and to the facility’s activities and
amenities. By automating the apartment doors of residents a major impediment
to their independence is eliminated.
Increase Revenues And Minimize Vacancies
Independent
Living Facilities require residents to be able to perform activities of
daily living with a minimum of staff support. Studies show that the ability
to enter and leave one’s dwelling is the most common activity seniors need
assistance with. With Private-Door resident dependence on staff for
assistance is reduced, freeing staff to fulfill other duties. Private-Door
may reduce potential vacancies. Current residents will remain independent
longer, extending their stay in the facility. Automating the apartment doors
for potential residents will expand the new client base to include
individuals who need additional assistance without impact to the staff.
Reduce Potential
Liability By Minimizing The Potential For Falls
Private-Door
reduces the potential for falls by residents who use walkers or canes. These
residents find the opening of their apartment door a major challenge. The
first challenge is opening a self closing door while using a walker or cane.
The second challenge is to hold the self- closing door open while passing
through the doorway. Private-Door eliminates these unnecessary frustrations.
Reduce Maintenance
Residents
with walkers and wheelchairs will unintentionally damage the self closing
doors and wall treatments as they enter and exit their apartment.
Private-Door will virtually eliminate this damage by opening and holding
open the door while they pass through the doorway.
Simple To Install and Transferable
The Private-Door is designed to be simple to install and transferable.
Maintenance personnel can relocate Private-Door to an apartment where it is
required. Private-Door requires no complicated electric strike and all
components mount to the edge of the door. No high voltage wiring is
required, power is provided by a 12-volt plug-in transformer.
Features And Benefits For The Resident
And Management
Private-Door is a unique product that provides features and benefits that
both the resident and management can enjoy.
Tenant Features
•
Free-Float System, permits normal manual operation of the door. This permits
a spouse or staff to enter the apartment without any increased resistance to
the door's operation.
• Obstruction Sensing, determines if an obstacle interferes with the door's
operation. Private-Door will revert to Free-Float and the door can be moved
manually to remove the obstruction.
• Door Check, will recognize when a door was unintentionally
left ajar after manual operation. Private-Door will sense the door's
position and automatically close it.
• Timer to Close, will automatically close the door after the
resident passes through the doorway after a predetermined period of time has
expired.
Management Features
• No complicated and involved strike release to be installed. This reduces
alterations and damage to the door frame.
• No high voltage wiring. Power is provided by a simple plug-in 12-volt transformer that can be plugged into a convenient wall outlet.
• All components mount to edge of door, not to the surface. When the
operator is transferred to another unit no mounting holes are seen on the
surface of the door.
• Portable, can be removed by the resident or transferred to another unit by
management.
• Reduces residents' dependence on staff.
A New Revenue Stream With Private-Door
No
one method of evaluating how, or if, to recover the initial investment in
providing Private-Door can be applied. Each organization places its own
value on goodwill and the amenities necessary to fulfill their mission to
serve the resident. Where one organization may choose to purchase a
Private-Door another may choose to assess a minimal surcharge to the rent.
Some organizations may choose to let the tenant buy the operator themselves.
Three models are reviewed in detail in Private-Door's "Independent
Living Program".
Private-Door's "Independent
Living Program" assists managers in determining how best to provide the
convenience of Private-Door with minimal or no cost to management. Click
here to receive a complimentary "Independent
Living Program".
Private-Door
automatic door openers are life-enhancing products that were purposely
designed to address the special needs of senior living. Private-Door
simplifies the day for residents who use wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and
canes by automating the doors to their apartments. Private-Door is a
signature amenity that current and prospective residents will see as an
exceptional service your organization provides to enrich their lives.
Independent
Living Facilities provide an environment and amenities to seniors that
assure a “quality of life” that is purposely intended for them. Because a
majority of residents use either a wheelchair, walker or cane everyday,
facilities are designed to accommodate these assistive devices.
Until Private-Door no affordable door operator was available to automate a
resident's apartment door.
Concerned providers give careful and
thoughtful consideration to the
individual as well as the collective needs of the residents. They provide
specialized services, social activities, security and other amenities.
Private-Door complements these efforts by assisting the residents to be
self-reliant, enabling them to easily participate in scheduled community
events. Prospective clients will recognize and appreciate the effort taken to ensure
accessibility to their apartment and to the facility’s activities and
amenities. By automating the apartment doors of residents a major impediment
to their independence is eliminated. 
Independent
Living Facilities require residents to be able to perform activities of
daily living with a minimum of staff support. Studies show that the ability
to enter and leave one’s dwelling is the most common activity seniors need
assistance with. With Private-Door resident dependence on staff for
assistance is reduced, freeing staff to fulfill other duties. Private-Door
may reduce potential vacancies. Current residents will remain independent
longer, extending their stay in the facility. Automating the apartment doors
for potential residents will expand the new client base to include
individuals who need additional assistance without impact to the staff.
Private-Door
reduces the potential for falls by residents who use walkers or canes. These
residents find the opening of their apartment door a major challenge. The
first challenge is opening a self closing door while using a walker or cane.
The second challenge is to hold the self- closing door open while passing
through the doorway. Private-Door eliminates these unnecessary frustrations.
Residents
with walkers and wheelchairs will unintentionally damage the self closing
doors and wall treatments as they enter and exit their apartment.
Private-Door will virtually eliminate this damage by opening and holding
open the door while they pass through the doorway.
No
one method of evaluating how, or if, to recover the initial investment in
providing Private-Door can be applied. Each organization places its own
value on goodwill and the amenities necessary to fulfill their mission to
serve the resident. Where one organization may choose to purchase a
Private-Door another may choose to assess a minimal surcharge to the rent.
Some organizations may choose to let the tenant buy the operator themselves.
Three models are reviewed in detail in Private-Door's "Independent
Living Program".