Memory Is Slipping: The Home-Logistics Side
This page is about doors, stoves and wandering, not about diagnosis. Those are the parts of the house you can change.
Guides
Shower Seating When the Bathroom Is Tiny
In a small bathroom the constraint is rarely the shower. It is the floor space outside it, and that decides which type of seat you can use.
The Front Entrance: Steps, Threshold, Light, Lock
Four things in one place, and they interact. Fixing the steps without fixing the threshold leaves the job half done.
The Bedroom: Height, Light, and the Route to the Toilet
Most bedroom falls happen on the way to the bathroom at night. Three changes address nearly all of them.
Stairs: The Cheap Fixes Before the Expensive One
A second handrail and lighting solve more than most families expect. Consider a stairlift after those, not instead of them.
Winter: Ice, Early Dark, and the Path to the Door
Winter adds two risks at once — a slippery approach and four extra hours of darkness. Both are fixable before the first freeze.
Helping From Another City
You cannot install a grab bar over the phone. You can control lighting, know when something changes, and make each visit count.
A Parent Is Moving In: What to Change, and in What Order
The bedroom is not the first decision. The bathroom route is. Here is the sequence that avoids doing the same work twice.
Does Medicare Cover Grab Bars?
No. Grab bars are classed as a home modification, not durable medical equipment. Here is what that means and what is actually covered.
They Fell. What to Do in the Next 48 Hours.
The medical part belongs to their doctor. The house part belongs to you, and there are four things worth doing before the week is out.