At the time of
the toilet, it is essential to take into account the various difficulties
inherent cognitive impairment to arrange the environment and adapt your
attitudes.
Which is
involved?
When the
toilet is difficult to reach, it is often difficult to establish an aid to the
sick person as it enters its Familiarity. It must therefore be moved
progressively.
The
Involvement of a household member for this type of care should not be
trivialized.
Whatever your relationship with the patient, you
certainly have never had access to the body of your loved one this way. This
will ring on your family member. That is why the Expert
intervention is often required to accompany the toilet.
Take the time to describe
The toilet must be presented as a pleasure
and not a restriction. If the word "toilet" Shocks the person, it may
be appropriate to use different phrases like "I'll take care of you",
"we will make you handsome / Lovely". Revenue the period to describe
to the patient the process of the toilet.
If she still has initiatives on simple steps
of the toilette, it is essential to authority it free to reach them. However,
it can, if essential, simplify his job by keeping only the useful elements to
the toilet, and in a logical order: soap, towel, toothbrush, toothpaste.
"The aggressiveness of the person may be related to fear or discomfort"
It may happen
that the patient expresses aggression during the toilet, it can be related to
terror and discomfort. We must try to understand what type of toilet is less
stressful for the patient: the sink, shower, bath, bed?
The patient may
have difficulty or an inability to dress. This goes reluctance to a complete
inability to dress. If clothing is presented in a proper order the patient will
have, for some time yet, the ability to dress herself.
If that's even
possible, you can offer to the person to choose how she wants to dress. But put
the person facing too much choice may place up for failure, so it is better to
offer him only two possibilities.
The choice of
clothing is important for the self-image and for comfort. If the person has
clothes where she feels cramped, uncomfortable, it can be disrupted throughout
the day.
