Are You Prepared To Age In Place? A Short Checklist
The Government of Canada has published a checklist entitled Thinking About Your Future? Plan Now to Age in Place. It is a digital booklet that helps to prepare elderly individuals to age in place by looking at nine areas of their lives. They are as follows: health,...
Aging In Place Is The Ideal Way To Spend Your Senior Years
“There’s no place like home.” This age-old idiom was popularized by the iconic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. The phrase, which was famously uttered by the movie’s protagonist, Dorothy, was actually first coined in the 1823 song “Home, Sweet Home”. The lyrics were...
How Older Adults Can Achieve More Restful Sleeps At Night
Older adults are advised to get at least 7 to 8 hours of good-quality sleep each night. By regularly doing so, seniors can enjoy a number of health benefits. The problem, of course, is that getting a good night’s sleep is often difficult for the elderly. A combination...
Making Your Household’s Stairwells Safe For Everyone
With age, we tend to lose strength and balance. As a result, falls can occur more easily for older adults. Statistically, this has been proven. Falls have been determined as the number one cause of injury-related deaths and hospitalizations of Canadian seniors....
How To Create A Safe Aging In Place Situation
Ways to make aging in place more safe: The term “aging in place” is commonly used to describe when an elderly person continues to live in the comforts of his/her own family home. The term, however, can more accurately be explained as a situation in which an older...
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