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I am a caregiver take care of my Uncle who suffers from Alzheimer's.
If you are a caregiver, while you might not be personally dealing with a family member, When you show as much love and patience as you can, even in such personal matters like bath time, you are showing your patients that you care.  As the caregiver are the one required to set up the schedule of bath time.  my Uncle with Alzheimer's forgets to take bath everyday. My uncle doesn't like to be given a bath he can still manage to bath himself. I worry about him bathing along in a conventional bathtub. I found lots of mobility solutions at Ellasbubbles.com no longer do i need to worry about my uncle bathing alone.

I have installed grab bars and a walk in tub. Takes the stress of senior bathing for me and my Uncle. He enjoys the relaxing aspect of a walk in tub such as the hydrotherapy jets. It was a great solutions I remind him of his daily bath and he can bath in private with me standing around right outside the door. Another benefit of the walk in tub vs the conventional bathtub is that rate of falling is greatly reduced because the walk in tub doesnt leak water onto the floor and there is no need for my uncle to step the [edit for content] model has a steel door that opens.

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Nice work making the bathing process enjoyable for your uncle. Getting older loved ones to bathe can be a difficult task. I work for nationwide caregiving agency and we hear questions on this often. Here is some of our advice on making bathing easier:

Build Rapport

* Find out why they don’t want to take a bath; * Find out what their last bathing experience was like; and, * Educate them on why they should bathe (good for your health, prevent spread of infection/germs, good for appearance/hygiene).

Establish Trust

* Don’t make it mandatory, but provide words of encouragement; * Try not to make them upset or make them feel guilty about not bathing; * Provide a demonstration of how the bathing process will work. * “NO” only means no for right now, so continue to re-visit the subject until they agree to take a bath or get bathed.

For more information on this topic, check out www.rightathome.net/seniorhomecare.

Best of Luck, Bill