Home is a haven for most of us. It’s the place where we feel the safest and most comfortable. For seniors getting on in years, they desire to spend their golden years in their beloved homes where they feel loved and valued. Thus, their homes must be safe, secure, and free of potential hazards. Caregivers of A Better Solution Home Care work with the seniors and their family members to create a senior safety checklist to recognize and eradicate potential risks that seniors may not even identify as such. A Better Solution caregivers work tirelessly on a senior safety checklist to ensure each area of the house is secure to minimize falls and injuries and exacerbation of seniors’ symptoms. 

Measures to ensure senior safety

One of the top ten reasons seniors end up in ER is falls and accidents. Senior safety checklist comprises a variety of preventive measures that can be easily installed in a home where a senior is residing to prevent such trips to the hospital. Caregivers of A Better Solution Home Care carefully go over the home safety for seniors checklist and screen the house for potential hazards. Senior safety checklist for making a home secure for older adults to thrive in includes but is not limited to:

Removing trip hazards

A Better Solution Home Care caregivers formulating a senior safety checklist ensures removing anything that might make the older adult stumble and lose their balance. This includes 

• Any clutter on the floors, including cables, cluttered furniture, decor, etc that may cause the older adult to slip.
• Rugs that are not fixed to the floor. They may liven up a room but on a elderly home safety checklist, they represent potential falls and injuries 
• Senior safety checklist necessitates the use of bright lighting around the house to make visibility better
• Motion sensor lights in bathroom and bedroom for visibility at night
• If necessary, A Better Solution Home Care caregivers may rearrange the furniture to ensure wide walkways
• Non-slippage mats throughout the house
• Handrails next to bed to avoid falls while getting up 
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Removing potential risks for injury

Senior safety checklist by A Better Solution Home Care caregivers ensures that the seniors' home is safe from causing physical injuries and bruises to their bodies. This point in the senior safety checklist necessitates the use of rounded furniture so that sharp corners do not cause serious bodily harm to seniors. The senior home safety checklist also includes proofing the cabinets and counters in the kitchen and other rooms to prevent injury. 

Bathroom safety

One of the most common places for falls for older seniors is the bathroom. Senior safety checklist by A Better Solution Home Care caregivers thus includes a thorough screening of the bathrooms. Seniors safety checklist necessitates 

• Installation of grab bars by the toilet seat so the seniors do not run a risk of falling while sitting down or standing up from the toilet
• Non-slippage mats
• Ensuring that the bathroom is dry at all times 
• Maintaining the right water temperature 
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Smoke alarms in the kitchen

Fire and carbon monoxide alarms are of utmost importance in a senior safety checklist for seniors living at home. Caregivers of A Better Solution Home Care make it a priority to check the alarms once a month to ensure they are working properly and their batteries are charged regularly. A Better Solution Home Care caregivers also ensure that a working fire extinguisher is available at all times, usually in the kitchen for an emergency. 

Symptom and drug monitoring 

Senior safety checklist entails that caregivers also keep an eye on any exacerbation of existing symptoms or development of new symptoms in older adults. Improper ventilation or hidden mold can exacerbate the symptoms of an underlying lung disease like COPD or Asthma, which may end up with the senior in the ER. Seniors living alone may also end up in the ER by mixing up their medications leading to adverse drug reactions. A Better Solution caregivers keep a diligent eye on seniors 24/7 to avoid any such mishap. They work dedicatedly to monitor every little change in the senior’s symptoms, strive to find the cause, and keep an organized record to share with their primary physicians. 

A Better Solution Home Care Caregivers work diligently to ensure every item on the senior safety checklist is ticked off. Our staff is well-trained to stick to the senior safety checklist and ensure that the seniors spend their golden years in the comfort, safety, and familiarity of their own beloved homes.