Difficult to remove pads

[Toddlerteaplease]

My friend who's in a nursing home, keeps taking his pads off and then just soiling where he is. I was wondering if there are any types of pads like pull ups for adults? He's not for a formal diagnosis of dementia, but there are issues. But he has capacity, so I'm baffled by this behaviour.

Have a quick Google; there are loads of options.

Tena make pull ups for adults. Sold on Amazon and Boots

The nursing home should be able to try different types (eg pull ups, nappy style) and brands but unfortunately it often comes down to money. Don't buy tena it will cost a fortune. Ask the nursing home first to experiment, if not try disability living centres, they often can give samples /advice and then when you know what works you can bulk buy them. The nursing home may have access to a continence specialist to advise.

Tesco have disposable pants just like pull-ups with rippable sides. Their own range is called Free Spirit but they do Tena and other makes. There are various levels of 'containment' from light incontinence to the full monty. Obviously the superstores have the biggest range

Most care home residents get assessed for pads but from what I've seen working in care its not often the pull up ones are provided as they r expensive. Tena ones are expensive but aldi,lidl etc do there own alternatives and u cam sometimes bulk buy on amazon

@Toddlerteaplease sometimes like the above may help as its like underwear

@Littlemisspebbles that's exactly what I was thinking. I think they put him in nets with the slip pads. And I suspect he finds them uncomfortable. He can pre in a bottle when he wants too. But is just as happy to pee on the floor. It's not fair on the carers. He denies taking them off. But I have no reason to doubt the staff.

If it solves the issue. Then he has money to buy them.

@Toddlerteaplease, I'm no expert I've just worked in care for few years.if the client is mobile then I found these worked better as I can imagine the pad is big and bulky and feels like a pad.the pull up things we used to sat to clients with dementia thst they were underwear a.d they accepted it
If your dad has full capacity you could explain to him he could still wear with underwear and maybe just try it for a few days.

Believe you me though carers are used to things like that nice or not lol

I suspect it is an issue about the feel of it. He actually prefers to be naked! So he's not to keen about having to wear pyjamas!

Most residents are assessed for pads and allocated a certain number every day.
My mum was usually left to walk around with a saturated pad on. Every time I went in the first thing I would do was take her to the toilet and change her pad. She ended up with sores on her backside.
I remember a member of staff telling me they were allocated 4 pads per day!
My mums home(bupa) were always running out of pads. We did buy them but the staff would use them for other residents.
4 pads a day
1 bath a week
Most of the residents walked about with wet pads.

Age UK sell a wide range of incontinence products.

@ParkheadParadise Did you just leave your mum living like that?!

[quote blublub]@ParkheadParadise Did you just leave your mum living like that?![/quote]
NO WE FUCKING DIDN'T

We constantly complained eventually we contacted the care commission. A wet pad was the least of our worries in that shithole.
This was towards the end of my mum's life. We had already paid Bupa £100000+ of my mum's house sale and she was now getting council funding. We did look at other homes but she was too ill to move by this point. At the end of her life, I stayed in the home for 16 days and looked after her. The home was more than happy for the family to take over her care😐.
My mum passed away peacefully with all of her 6 children at her bedside.
My mum was well looked after because she had family that visited every day some people don't and staff know this.

@ParkheadParadise I’m sorry!
From your post it sounded like you just threw your hands up at the situation. And reading about how other’s just don’t seem to care about their elderly on another thread it seemed plausible someone could do this.
Elderly care is shocking in this country. I’m currently caring for my nearly a hundred year old grandmother which is why I clicked on this thread. Well done you for standing by her at quite clearly a traumatic time for you all.

His care home is excellent. I can't really fault the care he's getting. But I suspect this behaviour is annoying them. They had to replace the carpet in his room
With hard flooring, even that was permanently sticky even though his room is spotlessly clean.

@blublub
No problem

Nearly 100!! That's some age to live to.

Care homes won't have the money to do this for pads sadly. The resident either needs a assessment or the family to buy the pads in my experience. It also has to be in the care plan

@Toddlerteaplease I tried a few pants for my Dad before eventually he settled on
Wilko own brand pants. Much cheaper than Tena. They didn’t say male/female on them. He was dreadfully skinny and needed something slim fitting. NHS provided no help and the Dr. who told me there was no treatment left for him but they would help with any other problems, looked at me like I was a lunatic when I asked about this. It was trial and error - he couldn’t cope with the pads which were all the hospital provided whilst he was in there then nothing once he was sent home to die.