One of the biggest safety issues that seniors face involves avoiding falls. Some of the tools that family caregivers might put in place for their senior’s fall prevention plan vary based on specific challenges seniors face. Senior home care providers can help families spot potential issues, putting together a more comprehensive fall prevention plan.
Prioritize Safety
Even the simple safety tips can’t be ignored when it comes to keeping seniors from experiencing a fall. Grab bars in key locations, like the bathroom, give seniors something to hold onto when they experience balance trouble. Nightlights that turn on as seniors walk by them help them to stay safer at night, too. Elder care providers can go through the list of common safety tips and make sure that seniors have all the tools they need.
Talk with Medical Providers
Underlying health issues, like blood pressure problems, can make a fall more likely for seniors. Sometimes the medications that seniors take to manage their health issues bring their own risks for falling. Doing periodic medication reviews helps seniors and doctors stay on the same page about what effects the medications seniors take have on their ability to avoid a fall.
Check Hearing and Vision
Both hearing and vision play a big role in helping seniors to avoid a fall. When they have trouble hearing well, seniors may also have balance issues that make it difficult for them to avoid falling. Vision problems, like blurred or double vision, can keep seniors from spotting potential hazards that might trip them up. Regular hearing and vision checks can make sure that seniors are less likely to run into trouble.
Stand Slowly
Seniors may experience a variety of issues that make standing up quickly a bad idea. Blood pressure issues, glucose trouble, and other issues mean that seniors should pause when they go to change positions. If they’re lying down, pausing to sit for a moment helps their bodies adjust to the new position. When they’re ready to stand, they should do so slowly and wait for their balance to adjust before walking.
Use Assistive Devices
Seniors may find that using assistive devices can help them to avoid a fall, too. All too often, though, aging adults find themselves avoiding assistive devices because they’re inconvenient or embarrassing to use. But these devices improve balance and stability for seniors. Canes, walkers, and even wheelchairs are there to assist seniors when they need extra support for mobility. Senior home care providers can help seniors to keep their assistive devices handy, so that when they get up, the tools they need are right there. Multiple devices can also be a good idea, especially if seniors tend to walk off without them.
Fall prevention plans aren’t perfect, and they’re not ever finished, really. Senior home care providers can help family caregivers remember to keep monitoring and adjusting plans to make sure that they still meet seniors’ needs. Preventing a fall if at all possible is always a better situation than healing from one.
If you or an aging loved one is considering senior home care in Roswell, GA, please contact the caring staff at Senior Solutions Home Care. (404) 266-8773
Senior Solutions Home Care is a Trusted Home Care Agency serving Atlanta, Palmetto, Alpharetta, Chattahoochee Hills, Milton, College Park, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Hapeville, Johns Creek, and all of Fulton County.
Over the years, we have expanded, providing service in all 95 counties throughout Tennessee, and we now have a growing presence in Georgia.
Senior Solutions is recognized as a top 5% independent agency and a three-time Inc. 5000 honoree in 2018, 2019, and 2020. These types of awards matter to us because they show growth in our goal of eventually touching a million lives. We’re excited to continue that growth and to touch even more families with our commitment to quality care!
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