The toilet or dressing

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.