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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.pretty common....some old folk need a bit of help if laxatives etc don't work although since a couple of unfortunate incidents in the late 80's only doctors and a few specialist nurses should do manual evacs
when they are confused they may just be responding to a 'sensation' but its worse when they become 'interior decorators' especially if their room isn't all wipe clean surfaces....
when they are confused they may just be responding to a 'sensation' but its worse when they become 'interior decorators' especially if their room isn't all wipe clean surfaces....
redman - not all of them are losing their faculties so can't blame it on that. I used to work in a home with all dementia sufferers so thought it was the dementia. Now I work with some people who have 'all their marbles' who do it.
I wondered if it was something they've always done.
Sorry I know it's a gross topic but I am interested
I wondered if it was something they've always done.
Sorry I know it's a gross topic but I am interested
jaydah - of course I would keep them clean. I'm not exactly going to leave them with filthy hands! Just find it a bit hard to stomach sometimes.
B00 - I can understand why you think that but she really does have her marbles. Infact, there are 2 ladies from upstairs (in the residential wings) who do it.
B00 - I can understand why you think that but she really does have her marbles. Infact, there are 2 ladies from upstairs (in the residential wings) who do it.
Miss Commando, maybe they are not getting the correct diet if this is happening so much, Like I said, we have one lady that does this out of 36 residents, I have never known anyone in the past to do it either, this particular lady has may difficulties with her bowels.
And someone doing that at the table clearly has lost a few cells, I'm not sure what you think is normal!!!!!
And someone doing that at the table clearly has lost a few cells, I'm not sure what you think is normal!!!!!
I don't assess people but she appears to have all her marbles to me and she's in the residential wing.
I wasn't in on the day she did it at the dinner table but read it in her file. Perhaps I'll ask the other staff if it's a regular occurrence. Maybe she needs to be re-assessed then!?
Hmm, the food isn't great to be honest so that could be why. Almost all the residents are on senna or something similar.
I wasn't in on the day she did it at the dinner table but read it in her file. Perhaps I'll ask the other staff if it's a regular occurrence. Maybe she needs to be re-assessed then!?
Hmm, the food isn't great to be honest so that could be why. Almost all the residents are on senna or something similar.
MissC, drugged all-age patients in hospital have same accidents, especially at feeding times. It's not habitual or normal but due to confusion.
If such patients are left to feed themselves with soiled hands, not only will their health suffer, the ward hygiene suffers along with staff - who get a severe rollicking for neglecting their patients.
If such patients are left to feed themselves with soiled hands, not only will their health suffer, the ward hygiene suffers along with staff - who get a severe rollicking for neglecting their patients.
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