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I'm installing two more grab bars in our bathrooms.
Call them "secondary" grab bars as they might help getting to the main grab bars.
Or they may never be needed.
Meanwhile they can serve as towel racks!
I wonder if I'm going overboard with my "preparations," but I remember five years ago questioning the need to install the walk in shower with multiple grab bars, but we went ahead and installed them.
Then my wife had surgeries which left her very wobbly for several weeks.
These are things we need to prepare now, while they are not needed, because even a temporary disability is an emergency.

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Exactly Ed! We installed grab bars in place of towel bars 10 years ago, foreseeing future needs. I get periodic vertigo, and it can be a lifesaver for me.
When we remodeled our winter tiny home bath, we did the same. The contractor thought is was such a great idea he includes it in all his designs now.