Home Safety Resources (07)

Home Safety and Security for Seniors
There are several home safety concerns that are unique to seniors. This series of articles address many of those safety and security concerns. Sign up on this site for a six-day email course in Home Safety for Seniors. Read about the special problems seniors face with hypothermia in the home. There's even an article filled with tips for how to clean your home safely. There's a very informative and helpful article filled with suggestions and tips for preventing falls in senior citizens, which is one of the leading causes of home accidents for seniors. There are also a number of tips for preventing another common home danger: carbon monoxide poisoning. Learn how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from common pesticides found in the home, and to keep yourself and your family safe from the poisons in many common household cleaning products that you use every day. Finally there is an article on the dangers to seniors of an over-heated house. If you're a senior, or if you have a senior living in your home, or if you care for a senior citizen, then the articles on this site are a must-read.

A Home Safety Checklist for Seniors
Every year almost three quarters of a million seniors are treated for falls in the home. A fall for a senior can lead to tragic results. It is estimated that at least half of all falls in the home could be prevented by following the tips in this checklist. The checklist includes almost a dozen specific tips on how to make stairs safer for seniors, more than half a dozen suggestions for making your bathroom more fall-proof, almost half a dozen tips for making the bedroom safer, more than half a dozen safety suggestions for the living room, and half a dozen safety tips for the kitchen. For a senior a fall can mean the permanent loss of mobility, which results in a loss of self-esteem and self image. Don't let a senior's life be ruined needlessly. The tips and suggestions in this checklist could, literally, save a life.

Make Your Apartment Safe & Secure
Apartment dwellers have several safety and security issues that are unique to their particular living arrangement. This site has dozens of articles and hundreds of tips and suggestions for making your apartment safer and more secure. Articles include everything from biological pollutants around the home, to making your apartment safe for kids, to how to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning in the home, to learning how to spot dangerous and toxic black mold and what to do about it, to a security audit with safety tips to make your apartment as safe for you and your family as possible, to knowing what to look for in apartment safety before you sign the lease, to apartment safety when you're on vacation, to alarm systems, simple security devices, and even an article on elevator safety. If you live in an apartment and you're concerned about the health and safety of yourself and your family, this site can be a real eye-opener.