Thanks to exceptional advances in the healthcare community people are living longer, healthier, and more involved lives. This means that more adult children than ever are taking on the responsibility of providing long-term care for their elderly parents. While past generations automatically assumed that older adults would live out their later lives in nursing homes or assisted living facilities, today’s seniors are healthier, more active, and taking more control over how they age. For many, this means aging in place rather than transitioning into any form of care facility.
While living out their golden years in the comfort, privacy, and familiarity of their own homes is a wonderful way for your parents to continue enjoying their lives with each other and with the other members of their family and social circle, it can pose some challenges. Many elderly adults cope with a variety of physical and mobility challenges that make it harder for them to handle tasks that were once very easy for them. Integrating motorized furniture into their home creates a safer, more accessible, and more convenient environment for your elderly parents.
Try these tips for improving your parents’ surroundings with the benefits of automatic lifts:
- Minimize fall risks by eliminating carrying. The steps are a frightening and dangerous place for seniors who have balance, mobility, and other physical problems. Something as simple as miscalculating the distance between steps can cause a devastating fall. If your elderly parents are trying to carry things up and down the steps, this risk is even greater. Protect your elderly parents by eliminating their need to carry things when going up and down stairs. Install a dumbwaiter elevator in their home so they can easily transport things like laundry from one floor to the other without having to carry it
- Keep their homes beautiful. Just because your elderly parents have embraced today’s entertainment technology doesn’t mean they want to give up the polished look of their home. Unlike younger generations, most seniors do not see their televisions and other entertainment devices as a decorative element and would rather they not be the central focus of their rooms. Rather than forcing them to choose between a home that is beautiful and one that is well-equipped for all types of entertainment, let them do both with automated home entertainment systems. From concealing a flat screen TV behind a piece of art to putting an entire home theater array into a beautiful piece of furniture, you can create an entertainment experience customized to their needs
- Simplify daily activities. You might not think much of opening the blinds to let some sun in or adding a leaf to a table to accommodate a few extra dinner guests, but for your aging parents, these tasks might be difficult or even impossible. Simplify these and other activities by installing motorized wall systems and automated furniture into their home. Motorized wall systems allow for the automation of tasks such as opening and closing blinds, moving televisions, and even moving wall segments to create larger or smaller spaces depending on their needs. An automated table allows your parents to change the size of their table at the push of a button rather than struggling with traditional leaves, making entertainment convenient and safe.
Get in touch with us to discuss our motorized furniture and home automation options so we can help you customize your parents’ home and encourage them to live a happy, active, and comfortable lifestyle right in the surroundings they love.
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