I thought of this today as i moved my mom from assisted living back to her single family home, with a 24 hour live in. Depends are pricey and the AL was putting her in 2 at a time! She is able to use the bathroom, its a matter of urgency and partial paralysis.
Anyone have experience with adults being CD'd?
Of course i have a stash of nwt 3.0's for ds2 that i have yet to open!
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Thread: Cloth diapers for older adults?
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Cloth diapers for older adults?
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I have never heard of that. They would have to be so huge and caregives of adults have so much on their plate already usually, that I think excess laundry would just be such an added burden.
However, in many cases it would probably only be urine that you would be dealing with (in a case of urgency over complete loss of bodily function) so it wouldn't be AS bad.DD
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This is what made me think of it, because the aide asked us to get a few other things as washable vs disposable. I'll ask both the aide and mom tomorrow to see if i should pursue it or not.
Originally Posted by elektra
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Could you use a soaker of sorts inside the Depends? Then the Depends would act like a diaper cover instead of the actual diaper.
Mom to a spirited, red-headed, former 28-weeker 10/2009 and a more mellow monkey 12/2013.
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