As we age, we become less physically fit and active, and there are things and activities that we may not be able to handle such as running up and down the stairs. If you are caring for a senior loved one at home, matters concerning his/her safety becomes an issue...
Ensuring Senior Safety Around the Home
Safety is very important at any age, especially during the senior years - ensuring safety around the home for elders is very important. Here are some tips on ensuring an elders safety in your house: - Tripping hazards are one of the biggest concerns around the home....
New Format for Home Care
There's a new program down in Indiana which aims to provide better care for seniors - the program is called Senior Care Central. Its goal is to connect nursing students at the universities in the area with seniors who need care. The concept was launched in...
How Reform Law Will Affect Senior Care
A lot of people are afraid that the health care reform law will have a very negative impact when it comes to senior care, but it turns out that most of these fears are unfounded. In general, the law will have no effect on the way that seniors get their health care....
Seniors Can Lead an Independent Lifestyle
For seniors, among the most important things that they miss about their youth is independence. Though, their loved ones are always willing to assist and care for them, elders would want to still feel capable and productive on their own. Dr Maija Sanna offers tips for...
Summer Survival Tips for Seniors and Youngsters
Everybody loves summer but extremely hot weathers are menaces, particularly for elders and youngsters who have really low tolerance for that kind of condition. The Houston Fire Department expresses their concern and offers tips for senior citizens and even regular...
Planning a Getaway with Your Elderly Parents? Here are Some Tips
Planning an out-of-town vacation with your elderly parents can definitely give them their most needed getaway and can give you a chance to bond and spend great time with them. Unlike planning a vacation simply for yourself, getting your parents suited up and...
Ensuring Senior Citizen’s Mobility Safety Through Wheelchair Ramps
To ensure the safety of aging people living under your care, it’s only righteous to revamp your house to higher safety standards. Senior citizens who are less able to move around without depending on other people’s assistance will benefit from using wheelchair ramps....
How to Keep Your Home Safe
Home is not an exception from the list of essential places that are prone to accidents; it is supposed to be the safest place on earth but it can't stop bad occurrences from happening if they are bound to occur. Yes, we can’t make ourselves invincible from home...
How to Prevent Home Injuries
Your home is supposed to be the safest place for you and your family; it's a place where you can sleep soundly at night and feel comfortable at all times but sometimes it is also where unprecedented fatal injuries happen. One dreaded but ultimately possible scenario...
Physical Exercises Reduces Seniors’ Falls
According to a report made in Cochrane Reviews by Lesley Gillespie, MD, and her colleagues from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, group exercise reduced fall risk by 15% and at-home physical activity lowered it by 22%. With nearly one-third of elderly...
Independent Senior Citizens Safety Measures
It is admirable how some senior citizens can actually manage to live independently. However, given that their senses are not as keen as they used to be, it is important that they subscribe to various safety measures to ensure that they can live securely while they are...
Keeping a Burglar Off Your Property
Wireless Home Security designer FrontPoint offers tips on how homeowners can preserve and maintain a safe environment for their families in their houses. They say that in order to keep a burglar out of your property, you must first try and think like one. After doing...
How Seniors Can Stay Safe in Their Homes
It shouldn't take a thief or a burglar to pose a threat on a homeowner's safety in his/her own property - sometimes mere accidents like falling can already cause so much hazard, particularly for independent senior citizens. Because majority of emergency incidents that...
Securing Your Safety in Your Home
One can never be too confident when it comes to home safety - no matter how wholesome your neighborhood may be, there are other various risks that you simply cannot ignore. In securing your family's safety in the house, you have to take into account various...
Accessibility for Handicapped Required in Establishments
People with disabilities can not solely confine themselves inside their homes in a wheelchair forever. These people are human beings and also need to find themselves happiness even in their own simple way. It’s alright to stay safety at home, but to allow these...
Common Causes of Home Injury Death
Ideally, our home is a place where we should feel safe and secured. But then according statistics, more and more people die each year from injuries at home. This occurrence can be very risky knowing that minor injuries can actually lead to death. Falls are one of the...
Gadgets to Help Monitor Senior’s Home Safety
Motion sensors placed on the wall and a monitor under the mattress may one day automatically alert you of early signs of trouble well before an elderly loved one gets sick or suffers a fall. This means no more having to check up on your elderly loved one every...
The Risks of Living Alone for Seniors
More American seniors are living alone in their own homes; a surprising number of seniors are experiencing social isolation as well as dementia symptoms. According to the Administration on Aging, 29% or 11.3 million older adults in 2010 are living alone. The number...
Senior Health and Care
Senior health care starts with prevention of the deterioration of the quality of life - a lot of senior citizens in the United States need senior living conditions that are intended to preserve adequate and senior safety life factors for many years because people are...