Unit 97 Support Individuals to Maintain Personal Hygiene 1 Understand the importance of good personal hygiene Explain why personal hygiene is important Good personal hygiene important to help take care of your body to prevent illness and infection. Good personal hygiene can also help to prevent the spread of infection to others. Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being Poor personal hygiene is known to be unacceptable in our culture. Good personal hygiene helps us to eliminate odours from our body. Odours occur from bacteria found on our skin and in our mouths.
Unit CU2655 support individuals to maintain personal hygiene 1. Understand the importance of good personal hygiene 1. Explain why personal hygiene is important Personal hygiene is important to the individual’s health and well-being. Being clean, and having a respectable appearance is important for maintaining older persons self-esteem too. If you are assisting someone with their personal hygiene, it is important to respect that persons privacy and dignity, as well as carrying out personal hygiene tasks in the manner that the individual wishes you too.
Especially when working in a care environment, as bacteria spreads quickly and very easily, and the elderly are much more vulnerable to illness. 1.2 Not maintaining hygiene can make the individual’s skin break down, this can in turn cause sores and can lead to infections and pain for the individual. Not maintaining personal hygiene can also affect an individual’s mental health and can lead to insecurities and a loss in confidence. Emotional well-being is affected with the person not feeling good in themselves, physical well-being if their health deteriorates and social well-being as the individual may have body odour which will make others find it unpleasant to be around them. 2.
1.2 The effects of poor personal hygiene can make people feel that they cannot socialise and this may make them try to withdraw from others, it may also make the person in question feel that they are not worthy and have a bad self image, people may even feel that they are ugly. This can effect people in lots of different ways. If people have poor hygiene others may not want to socialise with them or may try to avoid them. This can effect there well being as again self worth is gone, possibly may become withdrawn and possibly refusal to go to social areas, in a care home this could even mean not wanting to go out to public areas to eat, to watch t.v etc. and they may wish to stay in there room.
Poor hygiene can affect health by spreading disease and making people ill, Poor hygiene affects a person’s wellbeing by making them feel unclean and smelly which could affect the individual by causing them to become depressed, lack motivation & wanting to be alone. 2.1 Explain how to address personal hygiene issues with an individual in a sensitive manner without imposing own values? I would address these issues by ensuring that I talk about how good it is to have clean hands and that I would hate feeling dirty and try to keep the conversation light and non-judgemental. If this person is new to care I would ask them if anyone has taught them the best way to wash their hands and give them support. 2.2 Describe how to make an individual aware of the effects of poor hygiene on others?
This is done to keep the body and hair clean and free from infections. Through eating, drinking, coughing, sneezing, sweating and elimination of urine and excrement the body needs cleaning to prevent infection, discomfort and odors. Personal hygiene is essential for good health and well being Having a clean and respectable appearance and pleasant environment is key to maintaining the self-esteem of older people. The better they feel, the more they can enjoy life, making life more pleasurable for both them and for the staff. For most adults, hygiene is a personal and private concern.
Amanda Coxon 1033747 LD206c Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene 1.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important. Personal hygiene is the act of maintaining the cleanliness and grooming of the external body. This includes bathing and showering, cleaning teeth, washing and combing hair, keeping nails clean, wearing clean clothes and changing them regularly and washing hands after using the toilet. Good personal hygiene is important as it reduces the risk of the spread of infection, increases levels of self esteem and confidence and reduce the risk of unpleasant odours. By promoting personal hygiene in your own practice and appearance, and assisting individuals that you care for, you are leading by example.
Task 1: Understanding the importance of good personal hygiene. ⦁ Good personal hygiene is important because when we are in close contact with other people body odor or bad breath can be quite offensive to some people and so it is not only essential for well being, but for health reasons too (both mental and physical) Keeping clean and maintaining a respectable appearance are vital to boosting self-esteem no matter who you are, as there are those in society that will not tolerate any sort of neglect to these areas and if they come into contact with some who has bad body or bad breath will most certainly take offense to it and/or will quite probably remark about it to the person in such a way that it hurts that persons feelings and so is further detrimental to their self-esteem. So it is important to be sensitive and tactful when addressing such an issue with someone who is clearly having problems in maintaining a good level of personal hygiene so that their feelings are protected. ⦁ Poor hygiene can lead to all sorts of problems for an individual most likely being unpleasant smells, dermatitis such as sores, blisters and in some cases infections such as scabies or even lice which can lead to long term skin problems if not treated. If the individual is under constant verbal abuse for their poor hygiene it will more often than not result in the person feeling unconfident from low self esteem, which can lead to depression and isolation.
CT268 Principles Of Supporting an Individual To Maintain Personal Hygiene 1. Understand the importance of good personal hygiene 2.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important Personal hygiene is important for feeling good, comfortable and clean – good personal hygiene means the reduction of body odour which can be unpleasant for the individual and others. Personal hygiene also makes you have feelings of self-worth and can make you feel valued 2.2 Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being Not maintaining own personal hygiene can make the individual’s skin break down, this can in turn cause sores and can lead to infections and pain for the individual. Not maintaining personal hygiene can also affect an individual’s mental health and can lead to insecurities and a loss in confidence. Emotional well-being is affected with the person not feeling good in themselves, physical well-being if their health deteriorates and social well-being as the individual may have body odour which will make others find it unpleasant to be around them.
Unit 4222-249 Principles of supporting an individual to maintain personal hygiene 1. Understand the importance of good personal hygiene 2.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important Good personal hygiene not only enhances our appearance, its importance is directly related to preventing infections, diseases, and keeps us free from unpleasant odors. Practicing proper hygiene is important to our mental health and helps us feel better about ourselves. Keeping a good personal hygiene also helps keep those we care about healthy and safe. 2.2 Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being By skipping daily hygiene practices there is a greater risk of becoming victim to infectious diseases.