Support Individuals to maintain Personal Hygiene Understand the Importance of good personal Hygiene 1.1, 1.2 Maintaining a good level of personal hygiene is important because it reduces the risks of infection. This can be done by simply washing and drying properly, including areas such as your face, hair, nails, hands and feet. Personal hygiene is important in everyday life and not just specifically in a health and social care environment; it helps to reduce the spread of germs, viruses and bugs. Maintaining a good level of personal hygiene can help an individual to feel comfortable, especially in social areas. This, in turn, raises self esteem and confidence.
Unit 4222-250 Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene (LD 206 C) Unit 4222-250 Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene (LD 206 C) Assessment Criteria Outcome 1 Understand the importance of good personal hygiene The learner can: explain why personal hygiene is important 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. When you are helping someone with personal hygiene it's important to be sensitive and tactful, and to respect their dignity. describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being.
Infrequent washing of the hair and face can lead to build up that triggers acne breakouts and skin infections like impetigo. Poor personal hygiene can be a sign of a mental health issue, or low self esteem, leading to isolation. Poor hygiene can be a red flag for a major depressive disorder. It is not always major psychological disorders that cause poor hygiene; sometimes social isolation and poor self-esteem can contribute to lack of interest in
Unit 86 – Maintain Personal Hygiene 1.1 Explain why personal hygiene is important Maintaining personal hygiene is of key importance for many reasons; personal, social, health, psychological or simply as a way of life. Keeping a good standard of hygiene helps to prevent the development and spread of infections, illnesses and bad odours. Poor hygiene can also have a negative impact on an individuals social life as friends and family with notice your appearance or odour for example and as a result wont want to bother with you. 1.2 Describe the effects of poor hygiene on health and wellbeing Poor hygiene can have a range effects on your health and wellbeing, for example; A build up of sweat and bacteria will cause body odour or B.O. which is probably the most common effect of poor hygiene.
They will have clean teeth and generally well groomed as they would have had the money to buy these items and will want to maintain a good image. If the y.p eats a well-balanced diet then their overall appearance will be better, better hair, skin and teeth. The general environment will give them the opportunity to use the facilities such as libraries, centres, leisure centres because they wouldn’t have been vandalised or shut down. The y.p will feel part of the community if they can access it and contribute towards it. They won’t feel isolated or fear of going out in case of trouble.
When working with a patient it is very important to be trained to handle cultural differences. Knowing what the differences are and how to work with them is very important in this field. By doing so, one is showing the patient that they are respected and that they can feel at ease during the visit. If a patient feels that he or she has been disrespected or treated badly because of cultural differences the patient will most likely not come back. Also a bad experience could leave the patient feeling uncomfortable and could lead to a possible lawsuit.
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. Task 2: Knowing how to encourage an individual to maintain personal hygiene. ⦁ When it comes to addressing such a matter with an individual it is important to first of all make sure the subject is handled in private and as sensitively and tactfully as possible, whilst not imposing any of my own ethics and values about standards of cleanliness as there may be reasons why the individual has poor hygiene that are highly personal to them
Cleaning schedules are in place to prevent and control infections. The environment should be visibly clean and acceptable to residents, staff and visitors. Regular cleaning is important to maintain the appearance and function of the premises, the chosen method of cleaning should remove the contamination and not spread it. Cleaning schedules are put in place to inform users, staff and visitors who cleaned, what is cleaned, what time and day cleaning takes place, whether something needs to be cleaned daily, weekly or monthly and what chemicals were used to clean. 3.
Principles of supporting an individual to maintain personal hygiene (LD206) Outcome 1 1.1 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. 1.2Not 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.
Generally people with a positive approach to health believe that they are responsible for their own health. If a person with a positive attitude becomes ill they are likely to blame themselves if they develop symptoms of an illness. For example, someone who is very pretty and adores their body, however they know that they may be slightly over-weight and in order to stay healthy they should lose some weight. In my opinion, I believe that having a positive attitude towards your health and well-being is looking after yourself in spite of having something wrong with you. Another example of a positive attitude towards health and well-being is someone who has suffered from a really bad accident and has broken their leg.