Cleaning Your Care Receiver: Three Essential Tips / Alzheimer's and
The Caregiver's Journey
Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As caregivers for our loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, we’ve learned managing incontinence is one of the most challenging aspects of our journey. It’s a topic where having detailed information is vital to our adjusting to this part of our journey mentally, physically, and emotionally.
We are Nancy Treaster and Sue Ryan. Through our experiences, and insights we’ve learned from others in support groups, we’ve developed three indispensable tips to help you navigate the important component of incontinence care with your care receiver — cleaning them
Takeaways here
Additional Resources Mentioned
- Episode 10 - Incontinence Begins here
- Episode 12 - Bedbound and Bowel Incontinence here
- Episode 13 - Incontinence Overnight here
- Adaptive clothing
- Shorts snap up here
- Pants snap up here
- Very nice adaptive clothing here
- Disposable incontinence underwear
- For women here
- For men here
- Adult washcloths/wipes here
- Non-rinse bathing wipes here
- Disposable incontinence pads here
- Round tipped scissors here
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Whole Care Network, |
| 0:02.5 | helping you tell your story one podcast at a time. |
| 0:16.3 | Content presented in the following podcast is for information purposes only. |
| 0:22.7 | Views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the host and guests |
| 0:28.1 | and may not represent the views and opinions of the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:33.2 | Always consult with your physician for any medical advice. |
| 0:36.8 | And always consult with your attorney for any legal advice. And always consult with your attorney for any legal advice. |
| 0:40.5 | And thank you for listening to the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:52.5 | We both wish we knew how to handle incontinence better once it began. |
| 0:57.1 | We sure do. |
| 0:58.6 | For incontinence, we've actually created a five-part series because there's a lot going on with this topic. |
| 1:06.8 | Yes, there is, and it's coming. |
| 1:09.5 | It sure is. |
| 1:10.5 | In this series, we're helping you so's coming. It sure is. |
| 1:15.8 | In this series, we're helping you so you can preserve your care receiver's dignity, |
| 1:22.4 | and we're also helping you learn what to expect so you can be getting yourself prepared mentally, physically, and emotionally. |
| 1:26.5 | The five episodes in this podcast series are, episode nine, preparing for |
| 1:34.0 | incontinence, episode 10, something we coined, which is pre-incontinence, and when incontinence first |
| 1:42.1 | begins. Episode 11 is urinary incontinence, and episode 12 is bedbound |
| 1:51.2 | and bowel movement incontinence. And episode 13 is incontinence overnight. We said we would talk about the good, the bad, and the |
| 2:06.8 | ugly. This can definitely qualify as the ugly. We're focused on helping you understand what's |
| 2:14.7 | involved in cleaning your care receiver. We want you to know this isn't an |
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