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:

1. 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.

2. describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being.

The effect of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being may develop from social problems to serious diseases. Body and dental odour are one of the first consequences of poor hygiene. Person can be excluded from society around them, feeling insecure, losing their confidence and self-esteem. Poor hygiene may lead to social difficulties and isolation. All these aspects are affecting individual’s well-being and breaking down their mental health and leading to developing of mental illnesses. When is personal hygiene not maintained, individual’s physical health deteriorate by having skin problems, infections, dental diseases, increasing likelihood of contracting contagious illnesses

Outcome 3 Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other

underlying personal issues

The learner can:

1. identify underlying personal issues that may be a cause of poor personal hygiene

Failure to brush and floss, failure to use soap and shampoo, failure to use deodorant, failure to change clothes regularly, drug use, alcoholism, a diminished mental capacity, lack of money or facilities - all of these are reasons.

2. describe how underlying personal issues might be addressed.

Personal issues are behavioural problems affecting how one acts/responds towards society, or others in a group setting, or towards parents or other individuals. The individual with this is seen as deviating from the group norms, especially in relating to others. You could say for example that this person has developed maladaptive coping skills. Each has its way of being dealt with as well as personal circumstances such as sex, age, sexual preference/orientation, income/educational level, grievance over loss... so really it takes professional therapeutic counselling or/and psychiatric attention depending on its severity.  A complex is a personality trait one uses to adapt or to be acceptable to fit an ‘image’; it can grow in some cases into a borderline personality disorder