Some more fragile fabrics, such as wool, silk and thermals, will not stand the \u201cindustrial\u201d washing done by the care or retirement homes. If you cannot take care of the washings yourself, favour fabrics such as cotton, fleece\u2026
\nIn case, your relative needs hospitalisation, plan a small bag or suitcase to hold its personal belongings.<\/p>\n
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Care and hygiene products: What to pack when moving into a care home!<\/h2>\n
One of the key elements to take into account is the level of autonomy of your relative. If less mobile, favour bottles easy to open, even a pump bottle, to maintain as much independence as possible.<\/p>\n
Hygiene basics:<\/strong><\/p>\n Personal belongings and objects<\/strong><\/p>\n Although nursing homes organise events and activities for their residents, time passes slowly and it\u2019s important to provide our seniors with things to do. Here are some suggestions of what can be brought in addition to the basics:<\/p>\n It is essential to label all your loved one\u2019s belongings and clothes to make sure nothing is lost and everything is returned to their rightful owner.<\/p>\n Whether you take care of the washing or it\u2019s done by the nursing home does, it is very important to label everything, in the name of your loved one, so all clothes can be clearly identified before the move to the care or residential home. It minimises the risk of mix up and allows the staff to prepare the bags accordingly if you do the washing yourself. To identify in one\u2019s name tights, compression tights or socks as well as garments made of more fragile fabrics, we recommend to use sewing labels<\/a>.<\/p>\n In order to avoid loss and mix up of their residents\u2019 belongings, the nursing and care homes require to label in the name of your loved ones ALL of their belongings including shoes. For this purpose, you can used our personalised name stickers<\/a>.\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLabel it all to find it all! What to label when moving into a care home: our tips<\/h2>\n
Labelling clothes:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nFor clothes, we recommend personalised iron on name labels<\/a>, our best seller in terms of name labels for clothes<\/a>, resistant to the high temperature washings done by the residential homes (90\u00b0). Our iron on name tags are easily fixed in a few seconds. Personalise them fully with the name of your relative, you can also add the room number. To finish, select the colour of the text as well as a logo your loved one would like.
\nIf you are pressed for time, you could also use our stick on clothing labels<\/a>. These labels take less than 3 seconds to apply on the care or brand labels of the garments.<\/p>\nLabelling tights:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Marking personal objects, shoes and slippers<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n
\nWaterproof, long lasting these stick on labels are like all our name labels<\/a> printed with solvent free inks.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/images.a-qui-s.fr\/image\/upload\/v1617368647\/BLOG\/UK\/senior-pack-combo-uk.png\")
<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Senior Pack<\/h2>\n