The Caregiver's Journey

Cleaning Your Care Receiver: Three Essential Tips / Alzheimer's and


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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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