Dr. Shawn Weiss joins Suzanne Newman on the Answers for Elders Radio Show with a safety checklist for the indoors. Dr. Shawn discusses items like having adequate lighting in rooms where you’re doing spring cleaning. Also, check the batteries in smoke detectors, make sure they’re working. If you have air vents, have them cleaned, to help get rid of toxins and buildup of dust.
Dr. Shawn adds, “My mom, she likes to run the sweeper still, herself. It’s one of the things that she can still do. She noticed that her sweeper is just becoming too heavy. And so we went out and got her a lighter-weight sweeper, which means less energy consumption. It’s much safer for her to push, and it’s just done wonders. She’s able to do more things.”
In May, Dr. Shawn will be hosting “Stand Up, Keep Up,” a two-session Zoom course covering not only steps for fall prevention, extrinsic and intrinsic factors, but also digging deeper to find the root causes of why they might be at a high fall risk. Answers for Elders viewers and listeners can get special pricing. Click here for more information or to register.
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