Personal Hygiene Items

SRCB

My LO is in a memory care community and for the safety of all of the residents, they keep all of the personal hygiene items locked up. They will only allow items in the room if they are considered "safe for children". Has anyone found some safe products for use? One item specifically that I would like is denture powder. My LO continues to break and lose dentures. It is also a challenge sometimes to get my LO to shower and I think if items were more readily available they would be used more frequently. The only hygiene item in his room is a hand soap dispenser on the wall of the bathroom. Thanks.

RanchersWife

If they aren’t allowing him access to hygiene products then they need to be showering him. Baby shampoo/wash in his shower should be allowed, right?

dayn2nite2

The main reason the products are locked up is because it’s not unusual for PWD to eat them.  If something looked nice or smelled good my mother would try to eat it, including flowers.

harshedbuzz

SRCB wrote:

My LO is in a memory care community and for the safety of all of the residents, they keep all of the personal hygiene items locked up. They will only allow items in the room if they are considered "safe for children". Has anyone found some safe products for use? One item specifically that I would like is denture powder.

Amazon has denture powder although I doubt you'll find something labeled "safe for children". I wonder if something like Sea Bond adhesive strips would work and pass muster with the MCF.

IME, dentures, glasses and hearing aides become problematic as the disease progresses and there isn't really a good strategy for getting a PWD to just leave them in so they didn't end up in his bedding, on the floor or picked up off the dresser when one of the resident "shoppers" stopped by. We went with inexpensive readers in the Costco 5 pk, using cords on the hearings aides and labeling his teeth with a Sharpie.

My LO continues to break and lose dentures. It is also a challenge sometimes to get my LO to shower and I think if items were more readily available they would be used more frequently. The only hygiene item in his room is a hand soap dispenser on the wall of the bathroom.

I doubt it. Dad only used his grooming products with prompting and the direct supervision of the aides which was a huge improvement over his hygiene at home where he had access to it all 24/7.

 Thanks.