To provide a hand-held showerhead holding device which is a care-assisting device used by an assisting person who assists an elderly person incapable of washing the own body or a person with the impaired upper limbs in taking a bath and washing the body, and is equipped with a function enabling the assisting person to wash the hands easily and quickly by using splashed water of a hand-held shower without depending on an existing faucet for hand washing if a need to rinse bubbles of a washing agent adhering to the hands of the assisting person arises during a process of the assisting work in washing the body.

A hand-held showerhead accommodating receptacle (5) is provided on a hollow main body (1) having an opening part (2) on a wall surface.