Comments on: How to Make a Home Easy to Live In for Seniors

on 6/20/2008 Another option you have with caring for your parents is ResponseLINK Emergency Medical Alert System. They provide 24 hour assurance that if your parents need help, it is only seconds away with a push of a button. They also keep all of your emergency contacts at hand so that means no more lost contact numbers. They call the contacts you choose in the order you specify. You can also have the peace of mind that your parents are reminded to take their medications and that they are reminded to have their meals at a certain time if that is a concern as well. When I checked into it for my own parents, I found that it was easily affordable, and was easy to get set up with a subscription without a long term contract

on 6/19/2007 Some other tips would be to equip the small stairs in the home with threshold ramps which work well for wheelchairs and walking. You could even go as far as using cable ramps as seen at http://www.discountramps.com to cover up and loose wires/chords from being trip hazards. Also, as mentioned above lifts work great in houses and there is a lift for almost anything. You can even find bath lifts if you wanted.

on 11/22/2005 Rather than phoning and having to always make conversation, my neighbour and I leave our door lights on at night for security and have arranged that each will call to see if the other is OK if it hasn't been turned off by a specified time in the morning.