When do people develop pressure areas?
Residents of aged care services are at risk of developing pressure areas because they may have:
- reduced ability to move
- loss of physical feeling
- poor blood flow
- moist skin (due to sweating or incontinence)
- poor nutrition or weight loss
- been exposed to cold air
- ill health.
Have you had experience working with people with pressure areas?
In your experience, when do people develop pressure areas?
List the causes of moist skin. Use the space below to type in your answer. When you have finished, click on the Compare button to compare your response to the correct answer.
Residents can experience moist skin from:
- sweating
- incontinence
- drooling/dribbling
- feeding tube leakage
- colostomy bags
- wound leakage
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