Making the Transition to Home: Simple Modifications to Encourage Independent Living

By Paul Furtaw

"An excellent tool for case managers, discharge planners and other professionals involved with providing senior services who are having to explain home modifications" Monica N. Case manager.
Making the transition from a care facility to home can mean sudden changes are needed in the home to allow continued independence. Having an aging parent move into the home can also require modifications in the environment.
Making the Transition to Home is a compilation of the most common questions asked by families and caregivers I come in contact with. Common solutions we all face as an aging population are shown in color photographs and large text makeing this practical guide a must.
Making the Transition to Home could be shown bedside by a discharge planners during family visits. This book is already being used in post surgical meetings with families of discharging patients. Having a color photograph makes every explanation easier to understand.
A home safety checklist and the answers to the four questions to better planning are included.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 19, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452059426

Paul Furtaw

Home Remedies is founded by Paul Furtaw who works with grants from Ventura County cities and the Area Agency on Aging to help people find easy, inexpensive solutions for home modifications that facilitate mobility and independence. Mr Furtaw is recognized by the California Department of aging as a "For profit private service provider as an Independent Living Strategist" The goal of Home Remedies has always been to facilitate the homecoming of recovering patients through modification of the home environment. As the owner of a service business called Home Remedies, I have helped families make the transition from a care facility to home for over 12 years and average 300 families per year. ;The book, Making the Transition to Home, is a compilation of the most common questions raised by seniors and caregivers on how to make the home environment more livable. Large print and color photographs make explanations easier for the family caregiver to visualize during a potentialy stressful time. Paul Furtaw can reached at [e-mail]

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Contents

Introduction

What does it mean to make the transition to home?

How do I go about determining what changes are needed?

#1. What is the client’s age?

#2 What is the client’s prognosis?

#3 What are the physical characteristics of the house?

#4 What are the financial ramifications to the planned modification?

Modifications can be simple or complicated, but they usually fall into a few categories.

Wheelchair accessibility

Increased Stability in Bathrooms

Doors can be an obstruction

Increased stability in the home environment

Stairs can present many problems.

Elevated Platforms

Let’s take a walk around your home to assess your needs.

In Conclusion …

For additional information

HOME SAFETY CHECKLIST

Introduction

This book is dedicated to the caregivers. Most often, they’re the spouse and the ones who are forgotten