These pages will help equip carers with the tools needed to care for someone at home
Helping with Practical Tasks:
- Helping someone to wash Supporting someone who is unwell to bathe or shower
- Giving someone a bed bath Helping someone to stay clean and fresh and be washed in bed
- Helping with mouth care Covers mouth pain, dry mouth and tooth brushing
- Eating and Drinking How to approach giving food and drink
- Moving someone in bed Covers how to roll someone in bed, and how to change the bed with someone in it
- Moving someone in and out of bed How to move someone into a chair or commode, or to the shower, and back into bed again
- Helping with medication Tips regarding medicines, creams and eyedrops
- Helping someone to stand and walk How to help someone out of bed, out of a chair and how to cope with a fall
- Helping someone to use the toilet Use of commode and bed pan, bowel and bladder hygiene and incontinence
- Determining levels of consciousness
- Final days and hours
A brief video showing how to safely move someone in their bed