How Can You Modify Kitchens and Bathrooms for Your Senior?
Kitchens and bathroom are two of the rooms in which your senior is most likely to run into some sort of safety issue. Modifications can help so very much, but it’s tough to know what to change and what to leave alone.
Home Care Upper Darby PA – How Can You Modify Kitchens and Bathrooms for Your Senior?
Are Cabinets Easy to Open?
If cabinets aren’t easy to open, your senior might throw herself off balance trying to pry them open. Also, some handles aren’t easy to use if your senior has arthritis or other issues with hand strength. One solution is to replace handles with levers that might be easier for her to grasp. Latches might need to be removed so that cabinets can open freely.
Are Appliance Controls Easy to Operate?
Appliance controls need to be easy for your senior to operate, too. If the knobs aren’t easy for her to grasp or if they’re difficult to read, she might accidentally leave the stove on or have a difficult time using it at all. Look for accessibility solutions that you can swap out for the old knobs and controls that aren’t easy to use.
What about Grab Bars?
Grab bars are a definite answer for the bathroom, but did you know that you can use them in the kitchen, too? They’re handy to give your senior somewhere to grasp if she needs help steadying herself. They can also help her to maneuver through the kitchen more easily.
Does She Need Seating?
Both the bathroom and the kitchen are areas in which some extra seating could be quite useful. In the bathroom, shower or tub seats allow her to sit while bathing and that can help her to conserve energy and stay safe. In the kitchen, a stool or chair that allows her to continue to use at least one of her counters can help her to avoid falling.
What Would Make Life Easier?
When you go through these two rooms, make it a point to look at what changes might make your senior’s life easier and safer. Those are the biggest criteria for you to use and they’ll help you and your elderly family member the most.
Hiring home care providers can make this project so much easier. Home care providers can help you spot other potential problem spots in your elderly family member’s home so you can get a fix started right away. Home care providers can also help you to stay on top of potential safety issues.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Home Care Services in Upper Darby PA, please contact the caring staff at True Direct Home Health Care today.
Doc, as he is called by everyone - staff, patients and clients - first experienced home health care and hospice care while as a colleg student at King's College as he cared for his mother every day while she first battled COPD and then lung cancer. It was during this time that he came to understand that caring for a patient was more than just clinical expertise.
"Admittedly, my strongest attribute is my communication skills and the simple fact that I love to help people. Even the smallest thing you can do for someone really can mean so much to them long term. In fact, it could change them forever. That's what providing quality personal home health care should be all about."
In his spare time, he cooks for homeless shelters and children's music and arts events. He also is highly involved in his local youth sports soccer academy as a coach and Board member.
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