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Home Knowledge Center Wellness Library Caregiving: Overview of Personal Care

Caregiving: Overview of Personal Care

Overview

Helping someone with personal care involves many daily tasks. If it's been a while since you did day-to-day caregiving—or you've never done it—you might not know all the things you need to do and how to do them.

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This information gives an overview of the daily or weekly care a person needs.

Bathing

  • Caregiving: How to Give a Bed Bath
  • Caregiving: How to Help With a Shower
  • Caregiving: How to Help With a Sink Bath

Bladder and bowel care

  • Care for an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
  • Caregiving: Adult Underwear for Incontinence
  • Caregiving: Using a Bedpan or Urinal
  • Caregiving: Using a Bedside Commode (Toilet)

Cleaning up and reducing germs

  • Caregiving: Reducing Germs and Infection in the Home
  • Caregiving: Using Disposable Gloves
  • Caregiving: Washing Soiled Clothes and Linens
  • Cleaning Up Diarrhea

Helping at meal time

  • Caregiving: Helping Someone With Eating

Home safety

  • Caregiving: Making a Home Safe

Moving someone in bed

  • Caregiving: How to Turn Someone in Bed

Personal care and grooming

  • Caregiving: Fingernail Care
  • Caregiving: Foot and Toenail Care
  • Caregiving: Shaving an Adult
  • Caregiving: Washing and Styling Hair
  • Dental Care for Older Adults

Skin care

  • Caregiving: Preventing Rashes in the Groin Area
  • Caregiving: Skin Care for Immobile Adults

Be sure to talk with the care team if you have any questions or concerns about how to provide care.

Current as of: November 16, 2023

Author: Ignite Healthwise, LLC Staff

Clinical Review Board
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