1.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important Personal hygiene is important because the individual enjoys cleanliness, presentation & comfort. Looking good & clean can boost the person’s ego & their respect among others. The person whose body is clean hardly gets infected. Personal hygiene involves keeping the skin, nails & hair in good shape as well as keeping your clothes clean. Personal hygiene is also important as it clears discomfort & odors that might discomfort others & make friends to isolate you.
UNIT 23 support personal hygiene 1.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important Personal Hygiene is important as keeping a good level of hygiene helps to prevent the development and spread of illnesses, infections and bad odours. It also makes you feel good about yourself and makes you feel valued. 1.2 Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and wellbeing If you don’t maintain your personal hygiene it can affect your mental health leading you too feel insecure about yourself making you lose confidence. Your emotional wellbeing would also be affected by you not feeling good about yourself. Your physical health would also deteriorate and your social life would also be affected due to your physical appearance and a bad odour radiating around you making it unpleasant for others to be around.
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. Know how to encourage an individual to maintain personal hygiene 3.3 Explain how to address personal hygiene issues with an individual in a sensitive manner without imposing own values It is important to be sensitive and not impose your own values upon the individual; there may be cultural issues or issues around privacy that have to be considered. Explain to the individual that you will always respect their right to privacy and that you are there to help them. 3.4 Describe how to make an individual aware of the effects of poor hygiene on others 3.5 Describe how to support an individual to develop and improve personal hygiene routines 3 Know how to support an individual to maintain personal hygiene 3.1 Identify factors that contribute to
Unit 23 Support Personal Hygiene 1.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important? Personal hygiene is important as good personal hygiene reduces the spread of bacteria and other unwanted offensive materials which also reduce the spread disease. Also if personal hygiene is maintained it provides a good and professional impression. 1.2 Describe the effects of poor hygiene on health and wellbeing? 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.
It is important to give the patient their own time alone as everyone needs time alone to think, this also teaches them how to think on their own without having someone there to talk it out with first. Also some service users may want to keep some information to themselves as they do not feel comfortable sharing it, it is necessary that the service worker respects this. The most important issue with privacy is, whether they are disabled or not, some service users wish to be alone when they are being toileted, so it is best to ask for your presence. The social worker needs to show upmost respect to giving the service
Assignment 207 Understand person centred approaches in adult social care settings Bix Explain how the self-esteem of an individual using the service is linked to their well being A person with a low self-esteem is more likely to have negative thoughts about themselves. This has a knock on effect of low confidence which could lead to a person behaving in a way that may cause others people to reinforce this low opinion of them. This will help to increase those negative feelings. It is a vicious circle. These negative feelings can also determine how well a person is feeling physically.
While a little amount of fear and lack of trust might be necessary, excess of these things is not good and prevents one from doing a lot of things including difficulty in communicating effectively. It is important that service users trust the service providers because the service user may not take the service providers advice with could be potentially dangerous or even life threatening. Some conditions, such as having a stroke, being depressed or having other mental health problems may affect an individual’s ability to communicate, because they affect the person’s
Always act in their best interest and act with confidence and assurance in what you do, do not take on any task or project that you feel cannot be done safely. Ask for help and support if needed, and only accept work when it is safe to do so. Duty of care also means that you need to protect confidential information on the individual and their family. To protect the individual from harm or infection should be everyone’s priority. Duty of care is supported through legislations such as The Health and Safety Act and The Health and Social Care Act, failure to adhere by these standards can result in legal action against yourself or the setting.
1.1 Explain why personal hygiene important Good personal hygiene is essential to promoting good health. Personal hygiene includes oral hygiene, skin hygiene, hair hygiene and hair hygiene, but it is not limited to these 4 as after promoting a good personal hygiene even the clothes that you put on must be clean. Personal hygiene habits such as washing your hands and brushing and flossing your teeth will help keep bacteria, viruses, and illnesses at bay. And there are mental as well as physical benefits. Practicing good body hygiene helps you feel good about yourself, which is important for your mental health.
Hand washing is very important to help lower the spread of disease and bacteria. There are some ways that others can be reminded to help them remember to wash. Sometimes there is lack of education which can prevent someone from knowing the importance of washing. Men and women can be affected differently by certain messages and reminders that would encourage them to wash. Although the most effective prevention in spreading disease and bacteria is hand washing some still need to be reminded, importance of washing is not being taught as much as it should, and certain messages and reminders of washing may affect women and men differently.