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Old people + constipation = a mess!
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I've been a care assistant for a few years now and have noticed how many old people (some with dementia, some without) 'perform manuals on themselves'. This is the term staff in work use.
I can't understand how people can rummage around their back passage! Is it something that these old people would have always done?
It's the one thing in my job I find hard to deal with and it always makes me heave when residents have poo all over their fingers!
Do you think it's something the older generation have always done or is it something everyone will do when they're older and having trouble?
I can't understand how people can rummage around their back passage! Is it something that these old people would have always done?
It's the one thing in my job I find hard to deal with and it always makes me heave when residents have poo all over their fingers!
Do you think it's something the older generation have always done or is it something everyone will do when they're older and having trouble?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We had a presentation about Medication in the Elderly at work last week, and although I know it doesn't apply in this case, I was interested to hear about polypharmacy - I know some people suffer with multiple ailments therefore are on several drugs, but the complexity of the interactions between a cocktail of meds is scary Added to which the speaker said that many older people take a laxative daily because when they were little they were told they have to go every day - no, we don't - and complicate the matter with up to four over the counter medicines on top of their prescription drugs, which they forget to mention to the prescribing GP. I don't wonder that the slightly or very confused just lose the plot over their medications.
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