This book covers a range of topics, including general home safety tips that can be applied universally to ensure seniors feel safe and protected in their own homes. Lance emphasizes the importance of slip and fall prevention, shedding light on the potential severe consequences of accidents, addressing critical areas such as fire and electrical safety, plumbing and gas dangers, and providing practical measures to mitigate such risks.--

Home Health Care: Senior Safety in the Home is an Action Item Notebook with Room-by-Room Checklist and Simple Modification Ideas. The notebook with checklists helps guide the evaluation of a seniors home, including starting the process of obtaining senior safety products, and senior safety devices such as grab bars, and other senior safety aids. This notebook contains checklists to help make basic improvements which are often no, or low cost improvements to help increase safety. If you are considering an of the following devices for your senior, this notebook will be a good companion to ensure you are methodical in your approach to making the home more safe (safety rails, grab bars, support cane, low vision aids, medical alert device, pill box containers, medication organizer, non-skid slippers, grabber reach tool, magnification device, magnifying glass, etc.) This is an ideal companion for home health aide workers, nurses, occupational therapists, low vision therapists, physical therapists, family members and friends of seniors.

Do you want to live in your home forever and not worry about your health or your age?Aging in Placeis the perfect resource, offering complete instructions for the safe and healthy way to successfully make that happen. Whether you are a senior citizen who faces the prospect of moving out of your home, an adult who wants to avoid this happening in the future, or a senior adult caregiver, this book is for you. Aging in Place offers assistance in: • Questions to ask your doctor to prepare for your life at home • Building your support system for a peaceful future • A home-safety checklist • Financial issues to consider • And more As aging-in-place concerns become a priority for seniors, useful and accessible information is essential for a healthy and smart transition. This book is an excellent self-assessment, with tips on working with family and local social services for elders. Aging In Place is your reference manual for successfully living at home forever.

This Senior Safety Book is a safety and resource guide for baby boomers, seniors, and their caregivers. The guide includes safety tips for preventing accidents in your home, preventing accidents outside your home, preventing issues while traveling, and preventing hospital errors and medical mistakes. In addition to these important health concerns, this safety book also provides important tips to protect yourself from financial scams, fraud, and identity theft. Additional tools and resources are included to help seniors and their caregivers to keep important records and to connect to important services. A comprehensive resource directory, safety checklists, and medical record sheets are in the back of the guidebook. Additional advice and tips are also provided to help caregivers to find the help they need.This senior safety book aims to help you and your loved ones to avoid some of the safety risks and problems that come with aging and eldercare, so that you can truly enjoy and appreciate every single day with the ones you love.

Senior Safety at Home is an Action Item Notebook with Room-by-Room Checklist and Simple Modification Ideas. The notebook with checklists helps guide the evaluation of a seniors home, including starting the process of obtaining senior safety products, and senior safety devices such as grab bars, and other senior safety aids. This notebook contains checklists to help make basic improvements which are often no, or low cost improvements to help increase safety. If you are considering an of the following devices for your senior, this notebook will be a good companion to ensure you are methodical in your approach to making the home more safe (safety rails, grab bars, support cane, low vision aids, medical alert device, pill box containers, medication organizer, non-skid slippers, grabber reach tool, magnification device, magnifying glass, etc.). The last portion of the notebook is blank, and designed to customize your needs and notes.

It is often said "it takes a village to raise a child." The same can be said about helping an elder age at home. Perhaps not a village, but certainly a family. Caregiving at home has proven its value in offsetting the high costs of in-facility healthcare, and at the same time, improving the quality of life for many elders. However, educational training and support for caregivers has been in short supply. The focus of this book is to help you as a family caregiver create a safe living space and conditions to support an elder living semi-independently in the community or adapting your family household to support an elder as a member of your family. Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home is a compilation of safety tips, and sage advice to help support an elder in aging semi-independently and safely. This is a book meant to be read, and then put into action. A downloadable home safety inspection sheet is provided so you can complete an elder's home inspection, or yours for that matter. There is also a companion workbook to this book entitled Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home - Companion Workbook available that may make your task a little easier. As a recently retired Registered Nurse of over 40 years, author Rae A. Stonehouse has worked predominantly in the field of mental health/psychiatry. He has experience working with all ages of adults including the elderly in senior's facilities, psychogeriatric units, mental health facilities and in the community. While working as a Registered Nurse, Rae A. Stonehouse was actively involved with occupational Health & Safety in his workplaces. That experience has been beneficial in developing his skills to take an analytical look at a home's potential safety hazards and to provide strategies to rectify those hazards to make it safe for an elder to live there. Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home begins with an overview of home safety. Then it provides a strategic method of completing an assessment of the home's safety status and develop strategies to rectify the problems or hazards to make the home safe. The book goes on to address elder driving safety. How to face the issue with your aging elder. Financial scams targeting the elderly is discussed. The final section addresses maintaining your elder's ongoing health and welfare and day-to-day healthcare supervision. With the Covid-19 pandemic in full force at the time of publishing this book, many families are considering alternatives to institutions for their elderly loved ones. This book can help determine if supporting your elderly loved one in the community or in your home is not only feasible, but safe for you and your elder.