Personal Care – One to One Care
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 refers to the support of non-public and personal hygiene and toileting, perhaps with the addition of help to dress and maintain personal standards.
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
- Applying make-up, and hair care
- Support with shaving
- Foot care, particularly if you’re diabetic (reminding to monitor the condition of legs and feet).
- 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 bag, or a other clinical intervention
Care arrange can define likes and dislikes, the hygiene or beauty products the person would like to use, and what they feel comfortable with. 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.
With home care, you’ve got the option of having a carer who visits at set times of the day – to supply the support in the way requested.
Many carers support additional to private care. They are trained to administer medication, facilitate those with restricted mobility(safely use of hoists and supports), They might prepare meals, complete house chores, and even provide companionship, support, and encouragement.