When day-to-day tasks such as maintaining your own personal hygiene and dressing become difficult it can also be a difficult time and take its toll on relations. This is especially true for those intimate tasks or people who need specialist clinical intervention, frequently changing a tubing or maintaining a stoma bag.

Personal care for the older may include, however isn’t restricted to:

• Bathing and showering, together with bed-baths.
• Applying lotions and creams.
• Dressing/Undressing and getting up/preparing for bed.
• Oral Hygiene.
• Helping to the toilet or employing a commode or bedpan.
• Changing incontinence pads and cleaning of intimate areas.
• Support changing position in bed, to stretch and help prevent bed sores.
• Changing or maintaining a stoma or tubing bad, or other clinical intervention.

Explicit tasks, like cutting nails, shaving, and diabetic foot care, are detailed in the support package together with specific directions for your carer. Support with care is planned around individual desires and private routines. If they prefer to wash before breakfast or have a shower before going to bed, a carer can follow the schedule, the way they would like.