To investigate people's understanding and needs on bathing chair for the elderly, and analyze the status of bathing chair for the elderly, so as to provide references and corresponding nursing countermeasures for the development of more targeted and personalized bathing chair for the elderly.

Convenient sampling method was adopted to investigate 342 adults from the Pearl River Delta area of Guangdong Province with the self-compiled multi-functional bathing chair market questionnaire.

72.28% of the respondents had elderly people in need of support or those who needed care. 41.29% of them needed help from others during bathing, while 56.43% had never heard of bathing chair. However, there were only 5.26% of respondents who agreed that the bathing chair could fully meet the needs, 47.95% were unsatisfied with the low safety of the bathing chair, 39.77% believed that the comfort of the bathing chair was poor, 42.40% were oppsed to its few function.

The respondents have insufficient knowledge and great needs on bathing chair for the elderly, while there is a plenty of room for improvement in bathing chair for the elderly. Nursing measures: Efforts should be made to strengthen the publicity of the bathing chair for the elderly while developing the research and enhancing the safety, comfort, and versatility of the bathing chair.

Elderly; Bathing chair; Investigation and analysis