Arizona’s #1 Behavioral Health Residential Provider
Dressing Assistance
Rebuilding health and self-sufficiency extends beyond clinical gains alone; activities of daily living like proper hygiene/grooming and dressing often become impossible when mental health crises paralyze motivation. Orion Homes alleviates burdens during periods of distress through compassionate assistance with personal tasks until residents regain autonomy. Dressing support provides just one facet of our comprehensive, judgment-free wraparound care, empowering functioning, confidence, and growth.
Certified personnel guides dressing, undressing, choosing coordinated outfits, fastening garments, and more while building skills and progressing toward independence. We keep clothing neatly organized within apartments to simplify selection based on weather, planned activities, personal styles, and physical needs. Sensitive assistance adapts across conditions limiting dexterity like arthritis, neuropathy complications, or mobility restrictions requiring alternate clothing items. Orion’s multidisciplinary teams ensure all recommendations, from psychiatric medication changes impacting weight fluctuations to physical therapy strength progressions, integrate for appropriate garments, facilitating comfort.
Beyond clinical departments, Orion welcomes loved ones collaborating around preferred apparel choices and styles aligning with resident identity. We value open communication, ensuring clothing promotes confidence and genuine self-expression versus one-size-fits-all uniformity.
Encouraging Resident Empowerment & Choice
Even while providing compassionate dressing support during challenging times, enabling dependence without nurturing growth risks fostering passivity and helplessness, unable to propel discharge readiness. Orion’s coaches leverage the very process of dressing assistance itself to foster emotional and physical healing through empowering guidance, not just doing tasks for passive residents indefinitely. We invest the time necessary for mastery.
Physical health coaches incorporate stretching or dexterity targets, preparing specific muscle groups for increased garment independence. Everything intertwines.
We encourage verbalizing dressing preferences to build healthy communication around boundaries and bodily autonomy, even during resisting self-care. From buttoning shirts to shoe choice, our approach flows from individual pace and dignity rather than institutional efficiency quotas, neglecting personalized progress behind the rote function.
Through compassion free of judgment about appearances, choices, or current limitations throughout all levels of support, from intensive guidance toward growing independence, Orion Homes’ dressing assistance programming nurtures lasting wellness from the structure up.
Common DRESSING ASSISTANCE FAQs
How do staff handle privacy and modesty concerns related to dressing?
We verbally explain step by step what garments we plan to help with alongside rationale, seeking consent before proceeding. Workforce diversity and same-gender pairing options ensure comfort. We empower choice down to socks. Preserving dignity fuels progress beyond just completing dressing by any rushed means necessary. Health blooms through security.
Do facilities offer private rooms or shared living spaces? What about bathrooms?
Communal spaces promote peer bonding with an abundance of quiet nooks preventing overstimulation. We offer a range of restroom settings from fully private to assistance available depending on current functioning
What type of wardrobe clothing options are available on campus? How are costs handled?
We work with families, case managers, and available resources, providing new arrival care packages if needed. Clean, properly fitted clothing facilitates confidence building and mental health progress that is not impeded by financial limitations.
Reach out today to discover how Orion’s collaborative dressing assistance programming integrates rehabilitation and nurturing support for your one-of-a-kind healing journey.