Home Safety and Fall Prevention Tips for Seniors
For those age 65 and older, falls are an incredibly serious threat. Up to one in four older adults will experience a fall, and after falling, the potential risk of falling again doubles. Senior falls often bring about emergency room visits, fractures, head injuries, and hospitalizations – not to mention the costs connected with falls: […]
Helping to Manage Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults
While not unusual, urinary incontinence in older adults is a challenging condition to manage, impacting daily life in a variety of ways and frequently leading to reduced self-confidence and assurance and the limiting of enjoyable activities. However, it is essential to know that bladder control problems are not simply a typical part of aging. Identifying […]
Transitional Care: Help with Returning Home After a Hospital Stay
Following a surgical procedure or hospitalization, the words we look forward to hearing most are, “Here are your discharge papers – you are free to head home now!” What a sense of relief there is in entering the front door, sinking into a favorite chair, and unwinding. However, there are often a number of tasks […]
Safety at Home: Modification Tips to Create a Dementia-Friendly Space
The day-to-day dilemmas of providing care for someone you care about with dementia are constantly changing. Today, the challenge may be frustration with the lack of ability to communicate effectively. Tomorrow, it might be wandering and seeking to go “home.” There may be sleepless nights if sundowning is an issue, or aggressive actions and words […]
Signs of Dehydration in Seniors: Don’t Overlook This Health Risk
During the hottest time of year, maintaining proper hydration is necessary, especially for aging parents. As a matter of fact, approximately half of all seniors are chronically under-hydrated, as reported by a recent UCLA study, which can lead to an assortment of health problems, including kidney stones, urinary tract infection, and also an increased risk […]
Hot Weather Safety Tips for Seniors
The longer days of summer mean extra time for swimming, family cookouts, gardening, and all of those other enjoyable seasonal pursuits. Yet it also means a greater risk for a variety of health concerns for older adults, who are more at risk of heat-related issues such as: Heat syncope (faintness/dizziness) Heat cramps Heat edema (swelling) […]
Safe Driving Practices for Seniors
Remember that feeling as a teenager when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, that great exhilaration of being able to go wherever you wanted? The freedom that being able to drive grants us is beyond compare! Nonetheless, once we grow older, many different factors can come into play that affect safe driving practices for […]
House Modification for the Elderly: Tips to Keep Seniors Safe While Aging in Place
With the majority of older adults deciding to continue to live at home during the course of aging, it is important to complete a comprehensive home assessment to look for and resolve any dangers and ensure those you love stay safe. The best way to accomplish this is to begin outside of the home and […]
Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Signs, Causes, and How to Cope
Isolated. Misunderstood. Excluded. These are only a few of the countless emotions which are common in individuals with hearing loss, who find it difficult to maintain social connections with friends and family members, who struggle to communicate with them. Hearing loss in older adults is fairly typical, for a number of reasons: genetics, a lifetime […]
TBIs in Seniors Often Result from Falls
When you think about a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your preliminary thought might be a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or possibly a head-on collision in a car accident – something less likely to impact senior loved ones. However, the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in older adults […]