Mobility Assistance and Fall Prevention in Tamarac
Falls cluster at particular times of day, not at random, and the hour they cluster at is usually the one nobody is there for.
Falls have a time of day
Ask a household when the near misses happen and the answer is specific — getting up in the night, the hour after lunch, the walk to the car on a Thursday. It is almost never spread across the day.
That is useful, because it means cover can be placed rather than scattered. Half an hour at the right hour does more than two hours at the wrong one.
Mobility help rarely stands alone; it generally rides inside a visit already booked for washing or meals.
What the visit covers
Steadying and supervision rather than therapy, and the plan says so before anybody starts.
The journeys that keep going wrong
Bed to bathroom, the sitting room through to the kitchen, and the walk out to the car.
Equipment used properly
A frame adjusted properly, a stick held in whichever hand actually helps, brakes applied first.
A look round every room
Sliding rugs, trailing cables, thresholds, poor lighting and an armchair two inches too low.
Changes noted down
Slower on the stairs, steadying on the wall, less appetite for going out.
The same route each visit
People go over on routes they do not know, so the route is kept the same.
Reasons not to leave it
- Somebody has gone over, or very nearly
- The sideboard has become a handrail
- The walking frame is being used incorrectly
- Nobody uses the front step any more
- Getting out of a low chair is now a struggle
Start with the look round
It takes half an hour and generally finds two things worth sorting out straight away.
Book the look round — (954) 753-8181