Have any questions about how to use the community? Check out the Help Discussion.

personal hygiene

Comments

  • Damiross
    Damiross Member Posts: 15
    10 Comments 5 Likes 5 Care Reactions
    Member

    It's a real fight to get my wife to change her wet pants and underwear (diaper). It's taken as long as 1.5 hours to do it. But once I can get the underwear on it goes smoothly. The nurse has an easier time of dog it but it still takes longer than needed.

    The nurse says that the caretaker often has a harder time of changing the person with dementia..

Commonly Used Abbreviations


DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
Read more