Aging can make getting around much harder. Make sure your parents are safe in their own home by following these tips. There is going to come a time when your parents need a little help to safely live in their home. This is just an inevitable part of life. The goal is to keep your parents as comfortable as possible while also knowing that they will be safe when alone.
Luckily, it is fairly easy to make a few adjustments to the house that drastically improve its livability for seniors. These are the four things you must do to help your parents create a safe home as they age. Poor eyesight, reduced hearing, and imbalance put older individuals at risk of falling while moving around the house. Falling is actually the main cause for injured seniors. Since this is a dangerous problem, you need to remove all fall hazards from their house immediately. Throw rugs, long cords, and old unused furniture all pose a huge risk.
Make the house as open as possible. Walking up stairs puts a lot of stress on older bodies. They have to use all of their strength just to go up a flight of stairs. There is also a major injury risk if they fall while using the stairs. Avoid all of these dangers by adding a stair lift in the house. Stair lifts will safely go up and down the stairs whenever needed with absolutely no risk of injury. The slippery surfaces in the bathroom make it one of the most dangerous rooms in the house for your older parents.
There are several changes you need to make to ensure they stay safe. Put rubber mats inside and outside of the tub to prevent slipping. Add grab bars in the shower and next to the toilet. It is also a good idea to lower the temperature on the water heater to stop accidental burns in the shower.
The best thing you can do to make sure your aging parents are safe in their home is by making regular visits to see them. In addition to spending valuable time with your family, you will also be able to access the house and your parent's well-being during these trips.
Make sure some of your visits are unannounced to get a true sense of how they are living. Your parents took care of you your entire life, so it is now time to repay the favor. Making these changes to the house will let your parents have independent lives in their own home for as long as possible.
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Subscribe to our Newsletter. Forums Poetry. I define poetry as something that helps you express what you feel,see, or something that surrounds you. How do you define poetry? Perhaps a way of expressing your emotions, good or bad, sad or happy.
Poems are the colours to the painiting of life. Teachers: We supply a list of EFL job vacancies. Poems are slums of word assembled together illogically that expresses the writers' feeling and confuses the readers' brain. Yet, those poems are always considered as 'famous' and 'valuable' when I don't see how valuable they are Hi Aristocles, Before comdemning poetical writing as being illogical, first look at your own writing.
As far as your opinion goes, some of the most intelligent and witty people in history have written and appreciated poetry, so you classify yourself as their direct opposite when declaring your lack of understanding. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. What does poetry mean to you? Thread starter PinkLizard Start date Jun 22, PinkLizard Pink Lizard.
Poetry means the world to me If im having a bad day and need to escape poetry is the only way I know how even though all my poems are filled with horror and hate but hey its all good. Wraithguard In black! Poetry is the shadow that fuels my darkness.
Without the shadow the darkness will dissipate and without the darkness I am but a wanderer, lost in world of reality that is destined to find happiness in something it will never understand. I guess if you knew how I fell so far you would understand this more.
I am darker than a sealed cavern yet I no longer wander lost because I have embraced what most people fear. You could say that by losing my way into darkness, I found greater meaning on the path of light. Yet the path seems so far out of reach. Hammersmith Irresistible Ork Child. Poetry is painting with words, it is the flow of eloquence and inspiration, the free offering of joy and love or the sharing of a sorrow that healing may come.
It is one's celebration of language and the lyrical delight that is universal, a pure pleasure to be measured out with care, rueing flippant abuse of an ageless gift.
This is funny. We have the neutral PinkLizard, dark Rai, and light Smitty. It's classic! Nah well. The moment passed. Poetry is words with cadence, words put together because they belong together, because they sound right together. As opposed to prose which I'd define as words put together to best describe or depict a story, poetry doesn't necessarily have to describe anything important or interesting.
It is just words for the sake of words. It's like exhaling. HLGStrider said:. Click to expand Hammersmith said:. Now that's what I call eloquence and lyrical beauty. Poems can make you laugh, or paint a picture in your mind of something, or whatever.
They're like, more than just words, ya know? Blackstar wanderer, not lost. Poetry for me I am only able to write decent poetry when my muse is having a temper tantrum I never actually know what I'm writing until I read it afterwards; I just sit down at the computer and type whatever comes to my fingers. I hate my muse.
And yet, I can't live without him. Astran New Member. You guys even speak poetry while explaining what it is. Thanks, I think. AraCelebEarwen Part of the Shadows.
Poetry is a way to let things out.
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