7. Home Safety: Three Essential Tips / Alzheimer's and Other Dementias

You're going to wish you'd known about tip two earlier in your caregiving journey! As caregivers for our families with dementia, we've learned that ensuring home safety is crucial and ever-changing. In this episode, we'll share strategies for managing safety both inside the home. We are Nancy Treaster and Sue Ryan, and through our experiences caring for family members with dementia, we've developed three main tips to help you keep your loved one safe while giving you peace of mind.
File of Life: Create a document called File of Life.
Child proof door knob cover or double deadbolt locks for external doors
Child proof door knob covers here
Double keyed deadbolt here
Window sash here
Child proof cabinet locks here
Child proof stove knob covers here
Child proof refrigerator latch here
Child proof switch plate for garbage disposal here
Extra tall pet gate from (40” to 70”) - 57” here
Child padding foam here
Cameras or baby monitor for the bedroom and bathroom
Baby monitors - some come with motion alarms here
Motion alarm here
Cameras - If your care receiver is still staying home alone, consider one with an intercom
Ring indoor with two-way talk here
Grip Socks here
Floor lift chairs
Indeelift here
Generic floor lift chair here
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[@cynthiam3]

Thanks for these tips. My mom has early stage of dementia my sisters and I take turns keeping her.

[@thecaregiversjourney]

So glad you found us. We want you and your sisters to learn faster and more easily than we did. Recording two episodes today! Bathing/Dressing and Grooming. We post every Tuesday morning. (4am)

[@dorisrosales7982]

God bless you both for valuable tips. I took care my mom with Alzheimer for 6 years.Thanks God she was healty,very heathy No Itis,only forget every thing, she didn't recognize me.She didn't fall because she forgot to walk, we have a lifter to lift her from bed to the wheelchair, feed her like a baby and gave her showers 2 times a week the other days I clean her on the bed with wet wipes,it was sad but I give thanks to God I was near her every day,we took turns with my sister until she was gone ❤❤❤😢😢

[@thecaregiversjourney]

Thank you for your support!

[@critters16]

Thank you both ❤❤

[@thecaregiversjourney]

Thanks for listening!

[@SueArmstrongRyan]

@crutters16 You're welcome. We appreciate you. We're all on this journey together!