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I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen or heard of a senior losing control of their rollator and suffering injuries like broken knee caps, hips, arms and elbows, as a result. The bottom line is that rollators are not for everyone – especially those with balance issues!
Delivering Better Outcomes for Seniors – Rollator vs. WalkerMore than one in three persons over age 65 fall each year, often at home. Luckily, most of those falls don’t result in any injury with the exception of a minor bruise or scraped knee. But falling in the bathroom is an entirely different matter. Up to 80% of the falls in the home are in the bathroom.
Delivering Better Outcomes for Seniors – Use Non-Slip TapeYou see them everywhere! Seniors with those ugly, unsafe yellow tennis balls on their walker! Yee gads! There is a safer and cheaper alternative – Walker glide skis.
Delivering Better Outcomes for Seniors - Get Rid of the Tennis Balls!As we age, we often have problems with our ability to smell (called olfactory dysfunction). Older people might not be able to identify an odor or differentiate one odor from another. In some cases they might not be able to detect an odor at all. These odors could be the rotten egg smell used in natural gas and propane or even the smell of food gone bad!
Delivering Better Outcomes for Seniors - Seniors with Cognitive Issues Can’t Always Smell Natural GasEach of the 5 aforementioned critical areas of success are measured and receive their own score in the assessment process for the senior. These scores allow a plan of care to be developed with the family that will subsequently increase the chance of success for the senior by working together to move each individual score to a safer zone. For example, if there are 60 safety risks identified (trip hazards, poisons, bed height) we would want to reduce the number of safety risks to 40 or below to increase the chance of success for the senior in their environment.
Delivering Better Outcomes for Seniors – LIFE ProfileThere are many reasons for these failures in the senior population including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other chronic diseases for sure. However, there are a significant number of “failures” caused directly by non-medical factors that can take many good years away from our loved ones such as: safety factors, falls, improper medication management, diet, hydration and many more.
Delivering Better Outcomes for Seniors - Introduction