If the elderly person chooses to continue living in their “home”, they will have to carry out work to adapt it to their new needs.
1. CARRY OUT WORK
This is often the preferred option for seniors. To stay at home as long as possible, carrying out interior design work helps maintain autonomy by adapting to needs in order to avoid the risk of accidents.
The bathroom is the priority room. In fact, 46% of falls for people over 60 occur in a bathroom. To prevent them, it is possible to make various adjustments: replacing the bathtub with a walk-in shower, installing a wall-mounted shower seat, installing grab bars, improving lighting, installing non-slip tiles, etc.
The kitchen is also a room that requires a complete reorganization. Reorganizing the cabinets to keep all the utensils within reach, replacing a gas stove with an induction stove are frequent changes… and prudent ones!
2. ADOPT CONNECTED SOLUTIONS
To adapt your home to new age-related issues, home automation can be an accessible and secure solution. Indeed, it allows you to automate many actions that cause problems when you lose your skills. Concretely, this can be translated into the automation of adjusting the light or heating, opening and closing the shutters, detecting the opening of the fridge door, etc. The installation of a stair lift or a smoke detector can also be relevant to prevent certain risks of falls or inattention.
3. REMOTE ASSISTANCE, THE SOLUTION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
Teleassistance is the easy and secure solution for the elderly person who wishes to continue to practice their usual activities at home. Présence Verte, leader in teleassistance, offers specific offers adapted to the needs of a person faced with loss of autonomy. In the form of a bracelet or a medallion, easy to use, teleassistance makes it possible to secure an isolated elderly person , while reassuring those around them. Its operation is adapted to our elders. If necessary, simply press the trigger to directly alert a listening center which will be responsible for notifying the necessary help (members of the entourage or public emergency services).
4. HOME HELP
Home help performs all the tasks that the elderly person can no longer do alone. They take care of household maintenance such as laundry, ironing, but also help with housekeeping when preparing meals or shopping. They may also be responsible for washing the person and helping them with administrative tasks while maintaining their social role.
5. NURSING CARE
To keep the elderly person at home , they can also use nursing care. They will be able to provide therapeutic monitoring of the elderly person, through the administration of treatments and the carrying out of injections or perfusions in particular.
6. THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
Less well-known, the occupational therapist is a real support. His role is to study, design and arrange the person’s living environment to make it more accessible. To do this, he is interested in assessing the specific difficulties of people in their living space in order to propose home improvement solutions.
