Personal care can include help with:
- getting dressed and undressed
- getting up and going to bed
- going to the toilet and managing continence
- emptying commodes
- palliative and terminal care (working with community nurses)
- prompting to take medication
- skin and hair care
- washing, bathing, showering, shaving, make-up
- artificial feeding
- catheter care – changing of bags, monitoring output
- eye or ear drops
- ileostomy and colostomy care – changing of bags
It doesn't include help with activities that need the skills and expertise of medical professionals including:
- ear syringing
- injections
- programming of syringe drivers
- removing or replacing urinary catheters
- bowel evacuation
- toenail and fingernail cutting and filing