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Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home On-line Course .
Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver’s Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home is a compilation of safety tips, and sage advice to help support an elder in aging semi-independently and safely. It begins with an overview of home safety. Then it provides a strategic method of completing an assessment of the home's safety status and develop strategies to rectify the problems or hazards to make the home safe. This video is the first in the program.
Make it Safe!
If you see a safety hazard, fix it as soon as possible. It may be a simple fix of taking a defective appliance out of service. Other fixes may take time and/or need to be budgeted for. As you work your way through the home inspection, make note of items you will need to follow-up on resolving or investigating further.
Make it Safe! Home Safety Action Item
Action: Do a walk about assessment. Take the Home Safety Assessment Form with you and do a walk about inspection of the inside of the elder's home. If the elder lives with you, you could very well be conducting an assessment of your own home, however with a different set of eyes I.e. with the safety of an elder in mind.
Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment On-line Course for Supporting Elders@Home
The focus of this course is to help you as a family caregiver create a safe living space and conditions to support an elder living semi-independently in the community or adapting your family household to support an elder as a member of your family. This course is based upon Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver’s Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home which is a compilation of safety tips, and sage advice to help support an elder in aging semi-independently and safely.
