About the work content of long-term care or nursing care

Recently, many people want to switch from other occupations to specific nursing care skills.

For those who want to do long-term care work, this article explains about what kind of work is required to be done for long-term care.

Long-term care work is basically the work of preparing and supporting people who cannot do the activities of their daily lives without support, such as the elderly and patients.

Nursing care work

Meal-assistance

Dietary care is one of the basic tasks of long-term care, as diet is an integral part of daily life.
Diets vary depending on the user’s health and ability to chew and swallow. For example, regular meals, chopped meals, blender meals, and so on.

Dress up, change diapers

Elderly people and patients are partly or fully paralyzed, making it difficult for them to put on and take off their clothes. They need caregivers support. It is also essential to help elderly to go to the bathroom or who are bedridden to change diapers.

Bathing assistance, excretion assistance

Some users need support for bathing and excretion.
Helping with bathing and going to the toilet is also one of the basic tasks.

Movement / transfer assistance

Users often have problems such as being unable to walk, stand up, or sit down. The basic tasks of this support are transfer assistance (for example, moving from bed to wheelchair) and walking assistance.

Other work

In addition to the above tasks, caregivers have jobs such as gymnastics instruction, oral care, and recreation.