Bathing those living in long-term care facilities is a perfect example of where human dignity, sanitation, and risk management all intersect.  This article from McKnight’s discusses what progressive facilities are doing to improve the process.  How does your facility handle the issue?

From John Andrew’s article on McKnights.com:

To fully understand how the simple process of bathing affects long-term care facility residents it’s important to walk—or more likely slip—in their shoes.

Just think about how this activity, one that able-bodied people require privacy to perform, becomes an exercise in embarrassment once a caregiver enters the picture.

That is why facility operators need to pay even closer attention to how this routine is carried out, and whether it is being done in a manner that minimizes the emotional dread that residents may experience, according to experts.