How can I make my accessible kitchen safer?

Here are some tips for making your accessible kitchen safer: Consider putting child safety locks on all cupboards and cabinets. In addition to keeping children out of hazardous materials, these are helpful for keeping people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia safe as well. Get in the habit of closing cabinet doors and drawers when you are not actively using them; this will cut down the risk of someone else walking into them.

Mark the end and inside edges of doors and drawers with strips of bright-colored tape so that someone with poor vision can easily discern that the door or drawer is open. Safety yellow/orange or red is often a good choice but use the color most visible to the one with the visual impairment. Use lights and vibrating alarms to remind you that you are cooking: Turn the oven light or the light over your stove on to remind you that you have something in the oven.

Attach a Sonic Boom Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker to a lamp in the kitchen. (Yes a bed shaker). Use as you would an oven timer.

Set the alarm for when your food should come out and when time is up, it will flash, vibrate, and emit a 98-decibel audible alarm; one or any combination will get the attention of someone who is deaf, hard of hearing, or who tends to forget they were cooking. Light-weight timers and pagers that are worn on your body will signal the wearer, by vibration and audible alerts, when it is time to remove dinner from the oven. Tame electrical cords either with commercial cord hooks (plastic devices with hooks on each end to keep a cord wrapped), hook and loop fastener tapes, or twisty ties, or by hiding them in empty toilet paper or paper towel tubes.

Wrap pot handles with contrasting tape for better visibility; always turn pot handles to the inside of the stove. Remove throw rugs (tripping hazards) and reduce clutter. A neat and orderly kitchen is safer and much more enjoyable to work in.

Here are some tips for making your accessible bathroom safer: Install lighting that provides good visibility when using the sink, toilet, and tub or shower. Water-tight lighting fixtures for inside shower areas are available at home improvement stores. Don’t forget a nightlight so that you can find your way to the bathroom in the dark.

Add additional electrical outlets to accommodate today’s technology and future medical devices; make sure they are water and shock resistant. Unplug electrical devices when not in use and never use electrical devices near a filled sink or tub. To prevent falls, use a rubberized nonslip bath mat inside and outside the tub.

Place a contrasting-colored textured mat inside the tub that will give you a clue to the depth. Make sure any rugs or mats outside the tub are nonslip and contrast with the floor. Sit down while bathing or showering.

If lifting your leg over the side of the tub is an issue, look for a bath seat that is long enough to put two legs in the tub and two outside so that you can sit down on the seat outside the tub and slide yourself into the bathing area. Make sure the seat legs are adjustable to allow for differences in height between the floor and the bottom of the tub. Wear a waterproof emergency alert.

Most accidents in the home occur in the bathroom. Be prepared should you slip and fall by wearing a personal alert pendant. Companies like Guardian and Lifeline provide these services.

If you have a security system, they may also provide a wearable pendant as a bonus. Not all companies offer waterproof pendants so be sure to ask if you can take the pendant into the tub or shower with you. The FreedomAlert is a programmable, two-way voice communication pendant that lets you contact up to four relatives, neighbors, or friends, or 911, at the touch of a button.

Unlike services, there are no contracts or monthly fees.

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