Senior Home Central: Safely Age at Home

The Stand a Roo and the CouchCane are both excellent devices to help you stand up from a soft cushioned seat or couch.

A couch assistance device gives you a set of arms to use for leverage when standing up. One type uses a loose cushion to hold it into place. Another type installs under a chair or couch leg. Both types give you a stable arm or two to use for leverage when standing up. 

When you sit down on a lift chair, you bend your legs less than when sitting on a regular chair. When you stand up from a lift chair, you need less leg strength than you do getting up from a regular chair. So the lift chair offers both standing and sitting assistance. Lift chairs are also recliners. Some have massage and heat. Some are “wall huggers” that don’t require a ton of room in the back to recline. Some recline to a horizontal position, and some only to about 140 degrees.

Hobbies can be as simple as taking walks, and are essential to emotional and sometimes physical well-being.

A good pulse oximeter has a Perfusion Index (PI) and an OLED display with large numbers. The PI indicates if you’re getting a bad reading but the pulse is weak. The OLED display is bright and easy to see.

The science and methods of good sleep.

Falling is the most powerful enemy of independence. Aging in place experts have invented products and home layouts that reduce falls. You can help yourself too by removing bathroom rugs and using the stairwell handrail. Learn how to avoid falling to stay independent.