Encourage residents to comb their own hair

why do we think that it's helpful to do residents hair when they're capable of doing it themselves? Learned helplessness is known to cause depression and of course some older people can't use a comb. put whatever things cradle can do surely it will be good to encourage them to. I'm not talking about anything riskers but I was really amazed when someone wanted to comb my hair for me. it might be faster to do everything for an old person who is slow but it's not good for them.

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