Fall Prevention: Four Ways Home Health Care Services Can Help with Fall Prevention

 If your elderly family member has had a close call or two with falling, you might be concerned about ensuring that she doesn’t actually fall.

There are solutions, including establishing a fall prevention plan. Home health care services can help you and your senior to do exactly this.

Assist with Assessing Accurate Fall Risks

Lots of things can change very quickly for your aging family member, including her fall risk. She may experience an injury, need to have surgery or experience changes to her medications. All of these and more can increase her fall risk. Home health care providers can meet with you and you’re senior and accurately help to determine what factors are contributing to your senior’s likelihood to fall. That’s the first step in putting a plan together.

Engaging the Right Tools and Therapies for Your Senior

Home health care providers work with your senior’s medical providers to line up the right therapies and tools to help her to reduce her fall risk. This might involve working with a physical therapist to improve strength and balance. Or it might involve working with occupational therapists to learn how to improve functional mobility while performing daily tasks. If tools like a walker or cane might be helpful, they can help your senior to use those, too.

Helping Coordinate Support

There may be other support needs your senior has as well. Counseling, speech therapy, and other types of emotional and mental support can be helpful. This is likely something that feels more accurate to you if your elderly family member is finally accepting help after refusing help for a long time. It’s difficult to accept that life has changed, especially when those changes require leaning a lot on other people.

Assisting with ADLs

ADLs, also called activities of daily living, often become difficult for your senior which can lead to a fall. ADLs are activities like getting dressed, cooking, and eating meals, and your senior being able to stand, sit, and walk throughout her home. Part of preventing falls can involve having someone there to help your senior with ADLs. Home health care providers can do this for your senior, ensuring that she’s safer at home.

Having the help that your senior needs, in so many different areas, can be a crucial start to your elderly family member having a solid plan for fall prevention steps. This can even mean preventing serious injuries that can be life-changing for her.

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Senior Care in Daly City, CA, contact the friendly staff at Home Care Professionals today.
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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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