Fall Prevention Strategies at Home to Keep Seniors Safe

For anyone age 65 and older, falls are an extremely serious threat. Up to one out of four seniors will experience a fall, and after falling, the risk of falling again doubles. Older adult falls often lead to E/R visits, fractures, head injuries, and hospitalizations – not to mention the costs related to falls: as […]

Live Free’s Room by Room Tips for Senior Fall Prevention

If your elderly loved one is one of the 90% of adults over age 65 who decides to remain at home throughout aging, there are various considerations to assure the senior’s comfort, independence, and most importantly, safety. It’s a popular assumption that if the older adult stays at home, specifically if she’s lived there for […]

Striving for Safety: Fall Prevention Interventions

​Striving for Safety: Fall Prevention Interventions The goal of helping vulnerable older adults to remain safe at home is often elusive, particularly when caregivers are only in their clients’ homes for a limited number of hours each week. Add complicating factors such as the staggering statistics that 5.4 million Americans currently live with Alzheimer’s disease, as reported by the Alzheimer’s […]

Five Simple Fall-Prevention Exercises for New Hampshire Seniors

Many New Hampshire seniors are at a higher risk for experiencing a fall, and for those who have fallen, the issue is compounded further by the fear of falling again. Although the first instinct may be to minimize physical activity to reduce the chance of falling again, this is, surprisingly, not wise. It’s crucial for […]

Senior Safety: Prescription Drugs That Raise the Risk of Falls

What comes to mind when you think about fall prevention for older family members? Putting more lights in the home? Eliminating clutter and other tripping hazards? Keeping floors dry and clean? These are all important elements of fall prevention, but there is another common culprit to be aware of: prescription drugs that raise the risk […]

The Value of a Medical Assessment When an Older Loved One Falls

When you were helping Mom make lunch the other day, she turned around, lost her balance, and began to fall. Fortunately, you were able to get there in time to help ease the tumble, so she wasn’t hurt. Since there was no injury, you did not need to go to the doctor. Following a brief […]

Elderly Joint Pain Increases Fall Risks

The statistics related to senior falls are surprising. Falls are the primary source of injury in older adults, and bring about hundreds of thousands of hip fractures annually, along with numerous other injuries experienced. As prevalent as falls in seniors are, the risk is more than doubled for individuals with osteoarthritis, according to research by […]

Traumatic Brain Injury Symptoms and Prevention for Older Adults

When you think of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your first thought may be a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or even a head-on collision in a car accident – something less likely to affect seniors. Yet the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in older adults is much […]

Eliminate Senior Falls with These Exercises

Fall prevention: it’s one of the lead aspects of healthy aging, given that senior falls are one of the top reasons for major injury and even loss of life in older adults. At Live Free Home Health Care, we work tirelessly to ensure the home environment is free of fall dangers and that necessary alterations […]

Is Your Senior Loved One at a Heightened Risk of Falling?

Perhaps you’ve been by a senior loved one’s side at the hospital or doctor’s office and witnessed the medical personnel attaching a brightly colored “FALL RISK” band to his or her wrist. Alerting those providing care to this risk allows extra safety precautions to be taken during medical procedures. But did you know that routine, […]