Senior Safety
Home Care Assistance Advice on Why Seniors Should Start Dancing
Keeping healthy is crucial even as a senior. Many people tend to put their health and physical activity on the back burner, but being active is one of the best ways to stay independent and reduce the risk of aging. However, not all physical activity is good for your elderly loved one. Dancing is a…
Read MoreCompanion Care at Home Tips to Avoid Senior Scammers
Every year, seniors all over the country end up losing billions of dollars to scams. Any senior can be scammed, even if they try to stay up to date on the latest scams that are targeting seniors. But there are some things that seniors can do to make themselves less likely to be the targets…
Read More4 Home Items Seniors Should Get Rid Of
Seniors that decide to stay in their family homes as they get older should go through their old possessions, pieces of furniture, and other items that are cluttering up their home and get rid of outdated items that are no longer useful. Some of them could be downright dangerous to seniors as they get older.…
Read More3 Signs It’s Time To Replace Your Senior’s Smoke Detectors
As the weather gets cooler and your senior loved one starts using their furnace, fireplaces, and the stove more often now is the time to do a safety check of your senior loved one’s home. Seniors are more likely to die in a fire than other populations because if a fire occurs in their home,…
Read MoreWhat Home Safety Tips Are You Forgetting?
Aging at home is an essential part of your parents’ long-term care plan, but your parents have to be safe while doing it. You and your siblings need to make sure their home is safe for them to live in. You’ve looked at safety features like grab bars, smoke, fire, and carbon monoxide detectors, and…
Read MoreBe Prepared for Any (Realistic) Disaster: Senior Safety Tips for the Home
Disasters can strike at any time. For an aging senior, safety at home can be compromised in many ways, including through natural disasters. Whether it’s due to a hurricane, tornado, excessive rain that leads to flash flooding, high heat, extreme cold, or anything else, it is important to be prepared. Unfortunately, not many people actually…
Read MoreCan Mom Still Do Stairs?
As mothers and fathers age, stairs can become a challenge. Of course, there are good reasons to greet that challenge. Doing stairs can be good exercise. Stair stepping is a good workout for the heart, lungs, and leg muscles. It also helps individuals retain balance, flexibility, and coordination. Even just fifteen minutes a day of…
Read MoreTips to Help Your Elderly Loved One Get Up Safely After They Have Fallen
One of the worries that family caregivers have is that their elderly loved one will fall when nobody is around. If your elderly loved one has not fallen yet, these tips for helping them to get up safely after a fall can help. If they have already fallen, be sure to use these tips if…
Read MoreHalloween Safety Tips for Elderly Adults
Senior Care in Sugar Land TX: Seniors can have a lot of fun at Halloween, but there are some safety tips that family caregivers and senior care providers should enforce so that the elderly adult stays safe and unharmed.
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