Bathing / Dressing Aids - Tips / Hints About Making Grooming Easier

People with arthritis can have physical limitations that make personal hygiene and grooming more difficult. Imagine not being able to brush your hair easily or reach your feet while showering or bathing. Many people with arthritis don't anticipate that personal hygiene and grooming will ever be a problem -- and they don't anticipate that there are solutions. But there are personal hygiene and gro…

Women with arthritis in their upper extremities -- whether it be their shoulders, elbows, hands, wrists, and fingers -- often have difficulty putting on a bra. Putting on a bra is a simple activity of daily living that is taken for granted by healthy people. For women with arthritis there is an arthritis bra, as it's called, made with front...

Dressing aids are useful tools that help compensate for limited range of motion. It can be difficult to bend and reach to put on shirts, pants, socks, and shoes when you have joint pain caused by arthritis. Dressing aids include dressing sticks, sock aids, hip kits and more. Here are some for you to consider. You will likely wonder how you...

Getting into the shower can be an enormous problem for people with physical limitations. Mobility problems can often be overcome with the use of a bathtub transfer bench.

People with arthritis and mobility problems can have a difficult time getting up from a toilet seat. It's something that most people take for granted. Raised toilet seats can eliminate the problem. The additional height provided by this adaptive aid provides an affordable and obtainable solution.

Bathing can be stressful for people with disabilities or limited mobility. These simple techniques can help you create a home spa experience that makes bath time relaxing and pleasurable.

Assistive devices can compensate for the fact that arthritis interferes with basic human needs.

An electric toothbrush can make dental care much easier for people with arthritis and dexterity problems.

People with a wide variety of physical and mental impairments may require some modification of the physical environment to improve safe access to the toilet. Bathrooms should be modified to compensate for the person's altered mobility.

The morning is generally a hard time for persons who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Several tips to help people get dressed without using too much of their energy or damaging their joints, from D'Youville College.

Bathing and Grooming tasks can require a tremendous energy, especially in the morning when people with rheumatoid arthritis generally do not have a lot of energy to begin with, from D'Youville College.

Some things are tough to talk about. You squirm in your seat if asked about it. Personal hygiene is one of those things. People with arthritis and physical limitations can have difficulty with personal hygiene but there are products and assistive devices to help.