Aside from serious illnesses, one of the most dreadful things to occur to a senior are falls. Unlike younger individuals, senior adults don't take falls too well as their weakened structure can only take so much impact. It's no wonder one of the first few things...
Making Bathrooms Safe for Seniors
As people reach their senior years, the importance of safety reaches a whole new level. Because our bodies become more fragile during our senior years, falls can cause serious and even fatal injuries. The elderly can't recover as easily or as well as younger adults...
Cost-Effective Ways to Make Homes Wheelchair Accesible
Wheelchairs are a necessary and handy tool that make moving around and acts of daily living possible for the seniors, ill or handicapped. However, when people are confined to the use of a wheelchair, whether temporarily or permanently, moving around can be tough...
New ‘Wonderwall’ to Assist Elderly Living at Home
Researchers from Munich University of Technology (TUM) have created a "wonderwall" that revolutionizes elderly care. This high-tech wall provides assistance in everyday tasks and even monitor their health. It can find misplaced glasses or keys, and check blood...
Home Safety Tips for Seniors
Seniors, with their lessened alertness and increased fearfulness, often become victims of crime. Even if they aren't targeted by opportunistic criminals, seniors often become paranoid of their surroundings and need to be cautious of their surroundings. To assure...
Benefits of Hearing Aids
Hearing better isn't the only benefit of using hearing aids. According to a recent study, people with hearing problems who have chosen to use assistive hearing devices experienced many significant improvements in many aspects of their lives. From better relationships...
How to Make Bathrooms Accident-Proof for Seniors
Bathrooms can be one of the most dangerous places for the elderly. Slippery floors, wet shower areas, and hard surfaced tiles can spell disaster if an elderly falls in there. And since seniors are more prone to falls, with their lessened alertness and slower reflexes,...
Fire Safety Tips for Seniors
Older adults are the fastest growing segment of the population and also one of the groups at highest risk for fire death and injury. With slower mobility and responses, less keen sense of sight and hearing, and drowsiness due to medications, seniors are more prone to...
Senior Citizen Safety Tips
As people get older, they may be more prone to accidents. Although a significant decline in being targeted by crimes has been observed in senior citizens, older people may be more fearful but ironically less alert to their surroundings. The City of Westlake Police...
Senior Citizens of Montana Has High Suicide Rate
The senior citizens of Montana might be experiencing any of the following – loneliness, boredom, depression, excruciating chronic pain, loss of physical function, or the loss of a spouse. They could even be experiencing a combination of any of those things. It has...
Home Fire Safety Tips to be Given by Volunteers
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is going to be honored in Sheboygan by the Sheboygan Fire Department, staff and volunteers from the American Red Cross, representatives of Fresh Start, and members of the Girl Scouts. They will do it through canvassing neighborhoods to give...
Home Safety Tips for Termites
A home is the most valuable investment to have so we need to ensure its safety. When your home is infested with pests like termites, it is good to deal with them right away because they can cause serious damages.Termites eat away roofs and other fixtures made of wood...
“Repair Crew” Rips Off Senior Citizen
A senior citizen from Maple Avenue was ripped off by men who were posing as a “repair crew” last Tuesday. Jack Kimrey, a retired 79 year old was inside his home when the men, who were riding in three pickups, pulled into his home’s driveway, located about half a mile...
Strathclyde: Firefighters Offered Free Home Safety
Firefighters are providing free home safety checks in an effort to avoid fatal fires over the festive period. Looking at the Strathclyde area, the actual number of fires doubles from six to 12 each day over the Christmas holidays, the brigade said. There were five...
Natural Disaster Preparedness for Senior Citizens
Senior citizens also need to plan for natural disasters, just like everyone else. Better safe than sorry – is what senior members of the community should keep in mind and they should be encouraged to be as informed and prepared as every member of the community should...
Cyprus Salon Offers Free Services for Senior Citizens
A salon in Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus, is proving to be quite popular because of free the services that it is offering to the senior citizens of the city. The salon is located at the Nicosia Multifunctional Centre, and is not only increasing its popularity...
Cleveland Neighborhood Threatened by Condemned Homes
Lee Brickey and his family have been living in a neighborhood in Cleveland for the last three years. During that same span of time, they have been living right next to a vacant house that is already considered to be condemned. At first glance, there should not be any...
Some Safety Tips for Staten Islanders
The temperature is expected to drop below 30 degrees in the next few days at Staten Island, New York,and yet there's another storm on the way. The National Grid has issued some safety guidelines that are to be followed by those who are reliant on alternative heat...
Safety Tips Provided by McLeod Safe Kids
Among children that are aged 14 and below, among the leading causes of unintentional injuries are falls. In fact, in 2009 about 56 percent of deaths that were related to falls and over 45 percent of fall related injuries that were not fatal involved kids who were no...
Haiti Seeks to Improve Handicap Accessibility
One of Haiti’s reconstruction priorities is handicap accessibility, and it is definitely on the right track. With “build back better” being one of the buzzwords of the reconstruction phase after the earthquake in 2010, along with “capacity building”, the locals of the...