Personal Care at Home: What Can Contribute to Your Senior Falling Out of Bed?

Personal Care at Home: Understanding what can make a fall out of bed more likely for your senior allows you to put solutions in place for her.

Changes in Her Bedroom or Her Habits

When your elderly family member’s habits or sleeping environment changes, that can contribute to a fall from the bed. Getting a new bed, for instance, can be great for her comfort, but when she isn’t used to it, that can cause potential safety issues. You and your personal care at home provider can consider how any changes she makes can affect her safety as you’re making those changes.

Medications and Medication Side Effects

Medication side effects are always a concern when it comes to fall risk, and that’s no different when it comes to your senior’s experiences around potentially falling out of her bed. Something that’s important to remember is that even if your elderly family member has taken specific medications for a long time, her reactions to that medication can change over time. Talk with her doctor about how the medications she takes affect her.

Health Issues

A wide range of health issues ranging from recovering from surgeries to problems with balance can all impact your senior’s ability to avoid a fall. Having help with health issues from personal care at home can make a big difference in keeping your senior’s health where it needs to be. Make sure that you and your senior know what to watch for in terms of worsening health issues.

Vision Changes

How well your senior can see has a huge impact on her ability to avoid a fall, even in bed. If your senior is experiencing vision changes, she may feel unstable when she’s getting into or out of bed. Or it may be difficult for her to find her glasses when she doesn’t have them in the right spot. Elder care providers can make it easier for your senior to keep tabs on the items that she needs in order to be safer.

Cognitive Changes

Changes to your senior’s cognition can also affect her ability to get into and out of bed safely. Sundowning in particular can cause disorientation that makes it difficult for your senior to stay as safe as possible. Personal care at home can help your elderly family member to be safer when she’s getting into and out of bed.
Any falls are dangerous, but it can be especially dangerous for your senior to fall out of bed or when she’s trying to get into or out of bed.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Personal Care at Home in Walnut Creek, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today. Call (866)-940-4855

Andy Howard CEO at HomeCare Professionals

Andy Howard is a Bay Area Native who holds a BA in Political Science (University of Colorado at Boulder, ’97). After college Andy worked in the surging tech industry. His Grandmother however, would suffer a significant decline in health and ultimately needed in-home care. The experience of a loved one depending on outside help to age in place proved to be pivotal for Andy as he left the tech industry in 2002 for an opportunity in the home care world with a large provider. After having success in home care, but being frustrated by corporate constraints Andy founded HomeCare Professionals in 2005. He methodically built the company one client at a time by focusing on hiring quality caregivers to ensure positive outcomes. Currently Andy serves as the CEO of HomeCare Professionals and is also highly active in the non-profit organization California Association of Health Services at Home (CAHSAH) which advocates for a higher standard of in-home care for those who wish to remain living at home in California.

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