Culture Change Best Practices
Enhancing the Bathing Experience
Personalized bathing enhances the principles of choice and respect. Elders
should be empowered to be bathed at the time they desire and the way they prefer.
The goal of bathing is to provide hygiene, but it is also intended to be a
way to renew and restore the spirit and bodies. Bathing, as defined by the
medical mode, is relegated to a task. One that competes with the opposing forces
of the market place and customer satisfaction; too many baths to give in little
time by too few caregivers competing with personalized bathing desires of residents.
Types of personalized bathing include:
- Private bathing spas
- Bed baths
- Towel baths
Physical
Plant Changes:
- Decorating bathing rooms to be more homelike
- Provide
robes for residents
- Colored linen
- Bath salts, scrubs, and other
aromatherapy items
for
bathing
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