Personal Care in Tamarac
This is the half of home care that involves touching somebody, which is why scope and consent get written down more carefully here than anywhere else on the list.
Where personal care ends
Personal care covers the body — washing it, dressing it, getting it to the lavatory and moving it safely between bed, chair and door. All of that is within a non-medical aide's scope.
What is not is anything that breaks skin or goes under it, and anything that requires a clinical judgement about the body rather than practical help with it. Pressure sores get looked at by a nurse, not treated by an aide.
The useful consequence is that an aide will notice a change and report it the same day without ever being the person who decides what it means.
Personal care shares a visit easily with meals, laundry or twenty minutes of company.
What an aide does here
Agreed in writing with the person themselves wherever they can take part in that.
Washing
Shower, bath or a stand at the basin, whichever is manageable that particular day.
Dressing
Garments laid ready in an order that works, and fastenings dealt with instead of wrestled.
The lavatory
There and back safely, with as little made of it as possible.
Transfers
Sitting up and swinging the legs round, taking hold of the frame, and rising again once the lavatory is done.
Skin and nails
Creams applied where the plan says, with anything new telephoned through that day.
When families usually start
- A spouse is doing lifts that are no longer safe
- A weekly wash has become the whole of it
- The shower is avoided and the basin is not enough
- Getting off the lavatory has become the hard part
- Clothes stay on for several days at a time
Say what the hard part is
Usually it is one movement, not the whole routine, and that changes what is needed.
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