Start with everyday life.
Practical home safety begins with the activities you want to keep doing. Whether you are looking for yourself or supporting someone you care about, start with what matters to the person who lives there.
Notice. Ask. Choose.
Notice: Choose one activity or space. What feels awkward, difficult, or less comfortable than it used to?
Ask: “What would make this easier?” Listen to the person’s priorities before suggesting changes.
Choose: Explore the options together. Start with one manageable improvement and revisit how it works in daily life.
Parkinson’s
Consider the routines and spaces you want to discuss with your care team: getting around furniture, turning in tight spaces, reaching frequently used items, and moving between rooms. Write down where an activity feels difficult and what you want to keep doing.
Parkinson’s Disease: Five ways to make everyday movement safer
Stroke recovery
As daily routines change, familiar tasks may deserve a fresh look. Bring questions about dressing, bathing, preparing food, and getting around your home to your rehabilitation team. Include the person recovering in decisions about help and home changes.
Stroke: Five practical strategies for safer everyday movement
After Surgery
Prepare your home before surgery and plan for safer daily routines while you recover. Follow your surgical team’s instructions about activity, equipment, and precautions. If you are going to inpatient rehab, take pictures or video of your home to discuss with your therapists.
After Surgery: Preparing for home and recovering safely
Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Explore everyday safety with Alzheimer’s, vascular, Lewy body, frontotemporal, and mixed dementia. Find practical ideas for familiar routines, nighttime confusion, wandering, and offering support that respects the person.
Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Dizziness and Balance Problems
Explore safer daily routines with dizziness, including inner-ear problems, blood-pressure changes, and medication effects. Learn why pausing before your first step matters and when to seek medical help.
Dizziness and Balance Problems: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Peripheral Neuropathy
Explore practical ways to protect feet and support safer movement with neuropathy. Start with well-fitting footwear, daily foot checks, and seated showering when standing is less secure.
Peripheral Neuropathy: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Amputation
Explore safer daily routines after lower-limb amputation, with or without a prosthesis. Plan transfers, nighttime mobility, skin checks, and your home setup with your rehabilitation team.
Amputation: Five practical strategies for safer everyday movement
Urinary Urgency and Incontinence
Plan safer bathroom routines, nighttime trips, and easier toilet access. Explore treatment and equipment options, including commodes, urinals, absorbent products, and external urine collection devices when appropriate.
Urinary Urgency and Incontinence: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Arthritis and Chronic Joint Pain
Explore ways to adapt daily routines, move with more support, and talk with your care team about joint pain and fall prevention.
Arthritis and Chronic Joint Pain: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Muscle Weakness and Deconditioning
Explore safer ways to rebuild strength and stamina for everyday activities after illness, hospitalization, or inactivity.
Muscle Weakness and Deconditioning: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Medications and Falls
Learn what to bring to a medication review, how to describe dizziness or unsteadiness, and how to work with your prescriber on any changes.
Medications and Falls: Five practical strategies for everyday safety
Rehabilitation & returning home
Walk through a typical day with your care team: arriving home, using the bathroom, preparing meals, and following your usual routines. Ask which activities to practice before discharge and who to contact if the plan does not work at home.
Visual Impairment
Notice which everyday activities and spaces are harder to navigate when vision changes. Bring questions about lighting, glare, contrast, finding frequently used items, and moving through your home to your eye care or rehabilitation team. Discuss options that support the routines and independence that matter to you.
Read the Visual Impairment guide
Make the conversation yours.
Try: “I want to keep doing ____. The part that feels difficult is ____. What options can we explore?” A short list of real examples can help focus your next conversation.
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