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Be sure the shower has a mat, probably a stool and a hand-held shower head.
There are many aids available to help.
Carol
I am the mother too 6 adult children and 3 Grandchildren. We are so blesses. Come on senior`s you can do it. Many blessings many healings.
Maybe some more experienced caregivers here can recommend if an oil bath of some kind would work? Is baby oil still used? Do you rinse it off?
My second reason for the shower is thet every day I cram my mums body from head to toe. I use a nice middle of the range moisturiser for her face. I use again a middle of the range nice smelling body butter for the rest of her - I do the whole body and it seems to a) make her skin more supple and less prone to tears b) stop the pain in her knees a little c) ease her back pain and actually does help her pass a stool sometimes too and finally d) is the only physical contact she will ever have. I wash her hair once a week and then hse has a full oil head massage the night before the shampoo and then we get it all washed off leaving her hair really shiny.
I guess I am doing something right for the hospital said she had the best skin they had seen on a 92 year old - not one tear no sores nothing. Mind you she was only in for a week and came home with 4 tears all in the groin area but they were soon sorted when I went back to our old routine
I need to have a talk with her about feminine hygiene because she'll go weeks up to 5 or 6 sometimes without bathing. She has not washed her hair in over 3 months. I have offered to help her and in the few times in over 2 years that we've been living with her she has let me. This makes me cringe because I am a very clean person. She comes from the country and I don't think she knows about some of the illnesses she and my husband and I could get. How do I tell her she needs to bathe more often?
Im lucky in that Mum likes a shower/bath. You need to get her into a routine and if she can't manage for herself what about a bath nurse?