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Maintaining
dignity
Residents
delegate
Motivation for
the job
Respecting the resident maintains their dignity
and this includes maintaining privacy, doing
the little things for them and managing their
wardrobe and clothing.
Staff should not assume what a physically
dependent resident wants rather should wait
for care needs to be delegated.
Staff need to feel appreciated, need to have
the right skills and need to be interested in
older people. It must be appreciated that it is
difficult to maintain motivation due to the
hard physical nature of the work which is
tiring. The job requires the right personality
and good teamwork.
Role of Family The family play an important role in getting to
know the resident and in subsequent care
planning. Some provide clothes, take residents
out and visit.
352
Wardrobes &
clothing
Appendices
Communal
clothing
24 13
8 7
3 2
Its just the little
things
3 2
Privacy 3 2
Respecting the
resident
They weren't
9 7
always like
this
2 2
On-going
education
1 1
9 5
48 23
Interested in
older people
Choose to work
9 7
in residential
care
5 4
Teamwork 9 8
Not
participating
4 4
Feeling
appreciated
7 4
The right skills 6 4
The right
personality
10 8
Tiring and
boring
3 3
Hard work 4 4
Residents
dependence
1 1
50 21
Providing
clothes
4 4
Visiting 19 14
Not visiting 9 6
Taking
residents out
6 5
Not taking 3 3