Moving into long-term care or a retirement home?
MAKE CLOTHING AND BELONGINGS EASY TO IDENTIFY
One kit, three label types: 192 clothing labels, 96 personal item labels and 12 anti-theft labels.
192 clothing labels
White cotton 0.5" or 0.75" x 2.5" - Your choice: 2 packs iron-on or sew-on, or 1 iron-on pack and 1 sew-on pack.
96 personal item labels
Self-adhesive vinyl with super adhesive 0.5" or 0.75" x 2.5" - white or clear, black or white print.
12 anti-theft labels
White vinyl 0.75" x 2.0" - Red print, with black available as an option. Strong adhesive for lasting identification.
To label clothing, you will need a lot of labels. Care centres ask families to provide enough clothing for a two-week rotation. Socks alone add up to about 30 labels. Add summer, fall, winter and spring clothing, and you will need a great many labels in total. You also need to label all of the person’s personal items: hairbrush, cane, walker, remote control, denture or glasses case, etc. Residents with Alzheimer’s disease wander during the day, go into rooms and pick things up. Every morning, care staff find many items, which are returned if they are labelled; otherwise they are lost.