Dear Reader, this post is available in audio and written formats, so you can listen, download and listen later, or read – whatever works best for you. I have dragged my feet for years in refusing to get an emergency medical ID bracelet. The older medical alert bracelets were not pretty, they had steel wristbands […]
1.4 million people, age 65 and older, are treated in emergency rooms every year in this country for injuries due to falls and house fires. After reading that statistic, I thought about how many of those 1.4 million people could not go home after their injury and ended up in a nursing home or assisted […]
Here’s the short answer: PERSONAL SAFETY = STAYING AT HOME! We all like living in our homes. Whether we live in a one room studio apartment or a house, home is where we feel safe and where we create our own space. This post is the first in a series on how we can stay […]