Home safety tips for seniors

As you may know, most  older adults want to age-in-place and maintain independence. To plan for this, they need to prepare their homes for aging and to be careful about  home safety tips.

With a growing number of older adults living independently, it’s increasingly important to make sure that they’re safe at home. If you’re an older adult living on your own, or care for an older person living alone, here’s what you need to know about home safety.

Sometimes poor eyesight and hearing, arthritis, dementia, mobility issues, illnesses and side effects from medications are all factors that can make a simple trip to the kitchen a potentially dangerous undertaking. It’s important  to be careful about these risks to maintain independence.

Falls are the most common cause of fatal injury to the aging population. Many accidents can be prevented by developing home safety, practicing good safety habits and staying alert — even when performing various tasks.

In the following, you will read some essential tips which can help seniors to increase home safety:

• Keep emergency numbers handy, such as 911, family members.
• Fall prevention by getting help using equipment such as canes, walkers, rollators, and wheelchairs.
• Installing suitable home safety equipment to protect against fire and related dangers.
• Avoid bathroom falling risks with the help of grab bars and related bathroom safety equipment.
• Have adequate and accessible lighting at home.
• Using bedroom safety equipment to rest peacefully.

At Advanced Medical, we provide various models of home healthcare which can help seniors to increase their home safety. If you want to know more about our services and get a free consultation, please call us or visit our website.

Our staff have many years of experience in the field of selling, servicing and renting home safety equipment such as mobility devices, bedroom and bathroom safety equipment. We are ready to serve Canadians in Metro Vancouver and British Columbia.

If you are interested in exploring what Advanced Medical Healthcare Equipment can do specifically for you, please call at 604-912-0106, or drop by at 1863 Marine Dr. West Vancouver.

We are at your service.

Also, you can drop us a message: info@advancedmedicalbc.ca