Adult Home Care: Home Modifications for the Elderly
When your senior loved one chooses to continue living at home despite difficulties with mobility or other physical, mental, or emotional challenges, safety is the first thing that should be considered. While adult home care will be able to help them with daily tasks or chores such as light housekeeping, laundry, personal care (bathing, grooming, dressing), meal preparations, and the like, a few home modifications can go a long way to increasing your loved one's overall safety.
If you are not sure where to start, your loved one's adult home care aide can recommend a number of standard modifications, but for more in-depth alterations AARP suggests going on the National Association of Home …show more content…
If your loved one has Alzheimer's or other form of dementia, adding slide or chain locks high up on exterior and basement doors can reduce the risk of wandering, and disguising cabinets housing dangerous items behind curtains, pictures, or tapestries can keep harmful items out of your loved one's hands since they will not recognize them as cabinets. Removing door locks, or even the doors themselves, from interior rooms helps prevent seniors from accidentally locking themselves in.
Sometimes, moving the master bedroom downstairs or into a major living area that is easily accessed is the best move. Also, adding railings along all walkways provides extra security and reduces fall risks.
Adult home care personnel want to maximize your senior loved one's independence and quality of life. Occasionally, this means a few things around the house need to change to best ensure your loved ones safety. While some of the modifications can be expensive (stair lifts, walk-in showers, etc), insurance and Medicare may actually pay for much of the
When your senior loved one chooses to continue living at home despite difficulties with mobility or other physical, mental, or emotional challenges, safety is the first thing that should be considered. While adult home care will be able to help them with daily tasks or chores such as light housekeeping, laundry, personal care (bathing, grooming, dressing), meal preparations, and the like, a few home modifications can go a long way to increasing your loved one's overall safety.
If you are not sure where to start, your loved one's adult home care aide can recommend a number of standard modifications, but for more in-depth alterations AARP suggests going on the National Association of Home …show more content…
If your loved one has Alzheimer's or other form of dementia, adding slide or chain locks high up on exterior and basement doors can reduce the risk of wandering, and disguising cabinets housing dangerous items behind curtains, pictures, or tapestries can keep harmful items out of your loved one's hands since they will not recognize them as cabinets. Removing door locks, or even the doors themselves, from interior rooms helps prevent seniors from accidentally locking themselves in.
Sometimes, moving the master bedroom downstairs or into a major living area that is easily accessed is the best move. Also, adding railings along all walkways provides extra security and reduces fall risks.
Adult home care personnel want to maximize your senior loved one's independence and quality of life. Occasionally, this means a few things around the house need to change to best ensure your loved ones safety. While some of the modifications can be expensive (stair lifts, walk-in showers, etc), insurance and Medicare may actually pay for much of the