Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 09:43     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
As Often As Needed.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2025 15:10     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
For Dad in assisted living in California, it is offered 3x per week. Sometimes he is agreeable and cooperative and other times he refuses. He is ambulatory though, so it isn't a struggle to bathe him if he does decide to bathe.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2025 06:12     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Anonymous wrote:Even if an adult is bedridden, they still need regular showering or they may smell bad.
Or get infections too.


This is very true.
Though in most nursing homes the patients usually do not get showered or bathed more than one time a week.
It is too much lifting and moving for a complete shower so a sponge bath every other day usually suffices.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 22:51     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Even if an adult is bedridden, they still need regular showering or they may smell bad.
Or get infections too.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 19:55     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Anonymous wrote:Sorry I wasn’t very clear in my initial posting.

My Mom is eighty - when she had a daily caregiver while living in her home, her caregiver would give her a daily bath.
She has arthritis and is visually impaired health wise.

Now is in a nursing home where she only receives one bath per week and I was just wondering if this was typical bathing frequency in a good nursing home since it seems a little infrequent to me, though I acknowledge that it is a lot of physical labor to bathe another adult.

I have also heard stories that many nursing home patients do not like taking a bath and may protest adamantly but the nurses at my mother’s home insist she does not protest bathing.


Yes bathing another adult IS very intensive labor since it includes a ton of heavy lifting and maneuvering to do so.
That is why nursing homes (even the best ones!) only bathe their residents on a weekly basis.
Plus there are also liability issues at stake too.

Visiting family members usually are allowed to bathe their loved ones during visits if they so elect.
Also most patients get a daily sponge bath either - 1-2x/a day……..
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 08:36     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
A lot of older people were used to bathing less frequently than 1x per day. If they are not soiling themselves, they may not need daily bathing.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 08:31     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Anonymous wrote:Sorry I wasn’t very clear in my initial posting.

My Mom is eighty - when she had a daily caregiver while living in her home, her caregiver would give her a daily bath.
She has arthritis and is visually impaired health wise.

Now is in a nursing home where she only receives one bath per week and I was just wondering if this was typical bathing frequency in a good nursing home since it seems a little infrequent to me, though I acknowledge that it is a lot of physical labor to bathe another adult.

I have also heard stories that many nursing home patients do not like taking a bath and may protest adamantly but the nurses at my mother’s home insist she does not protest bathing.


We hired an aide to supplement and a lot of people do that if the parent can afford. (I say parent because you should not take from your retirement or your kid's college fund for this, but if your parent can afford it and/or make a huge salary where the cost isn't a big deal and you want more peace of mind, it's something to consider).
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2025 05:37     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Sorry I wasn’t very clear in my initial posting.

My Mom is eighty - when she had a daily caregiver while living in her home, her caregiver would give her a daily bath.
She has arthritis and is visually impaired health wise.

Now is in a nursing home where she only receives one bath per week and I was just wondering if this was typical bathing frequency in a good nursing home since it seems a little infrequent to me, though I acknowledge that it is a lot of physical labor to bathe another adult.

I have also heard stories that many nursing home patients do not like taking a bath and may protest adamantly but the nurses at my mother’s home insist she does not protest bathing.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 14:56     Subject: Re:How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
2x/week for shower and hair wash. sometimes she gets additional sponge bath if needed. memory care.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 10:23     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
You need to provide more info. Does the elder have osteoporosis? Major fall risk? Difficult behaviors? Very overweight and could hurt the person if elder fell on them?
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 09:07     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
2x per week in memory care. But he can still do it himself he just needs to be encouraged and guided. I could see it being different if someone was bed ridden.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 07:14     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
1xwk but can request as needed.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 06:17     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
You can bring in aides fur extra care. What is their mobility like?
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 05:00     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Are you answering your own question in your last paragraph?

My mom gets a shower 3x/week
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2025 23:08     Subject: How Often Does Your Loved One In A Nursing Home Get Bathed??
Is it once a week, twice or perhaps every single day??

When living at home an aide usually bathes on a regular basis, meaning everyday but once situated in a nursing home can usually only bathe 1x/wk.