Bathing, Dressing and Grooming Assistance in Hallandale Beach
Wet tile accounts for more serious falls at home than any other surface, and it is the help people are most reluctant to take from somebody they do not know.
Two problems, and most agencies solve one
Two problems sit here at once — a safety one and an acceptance one. Fitting a rail and sending somebody competent deals with the first and does nothing about the second, and a refused visit is not a visit.
Predictability is what fixes the second. Fixed days with a known face turn the weekly argument about whether today counts into something that simply happens.
This is close work, and the aide doing it is nearly always the same one week to week.
What a visit covers
Hands-on help on fixed days, nowhere near anything clinical.
Into the bath or shower
The thirty seconds responsible for more harm than all the rest combined, with a steadying hand where it is wanted.
The wash
Shower, bath or basin at a gentle pace, with dignity built into the work rather than tacked on.
Drying and clothes
Dried properly first, then dressed in the order the stiffest joint happens to allow.
Nails, hair, shaving
The first things to go, and the ones that change most how a day feels.
Anything that wants fixing
A sliding mat, a dim bulb, a rail with movement in it — written up and telephoned through the same day.
Fair points to start from
- Somebody has slipped in there, or came close
- A wash keeps being put off, and fear is the reason
- Getting over the bath edge is now a nightly row
- Nails and hair have been quietly given up
- A relative has taken it on and nobody is happy
Ask what a fixed day looks like
Two or three set days is usually the shape. We will say what fits the round.
Ask about the days — (754) 334-1009