IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT: TIPS FOR EASIER BATHING

Course overview

People with dementia have genuine, valid reasons for disliking the bathing process, and we will explore those fears and hesitations together. In this course we?ll brainstorm in search of a new understanding, and uncover ways to approach the bathing process to make it a better experience. Answering the questions of when, where, and how the person has always taken a bath will help offer more familiarity during the bathing process. Understand the fear people with dementia have with bathing. In this course you will also learn how to: explore habits of a lifetime and how to incorporate into the bathing process; obtain many practical solutions that will reduce the stress of bathing; and decrease incontinence by creating way finding clues to the bathroom and using familiar terminology.