While it is common knowledge that falls can cause severe physical injuries to seniors, it is far less well-known that falls can damage a person’s emotional well-being as well as their social life. Falling can drastically impact your loved one’s quality of life and make them fearful of leaving the house or doing the things they love. This can lead to loneliness, anxiety, depression, and social isolation. To combat this, Visiting Angels of Glendale offers home care assistance to help your loved one prevent falls as well as improve their quality of life.

Visiting Angels Offers Excellent Fall Prevention Home Care Assistance for Seniors in Glendale, West Valley, Peoria, Phoenix, and Nearby Cities

Visiting Angels of Glendale offers a wide variety of home care assistance to help your loved one stay safe in their own home. Our personalized senior care programs will not only help prevent falls in the home, but we offer additional services, such as companion care and social care, to keep your loved one from feeling alone or isolated. Our compassionate caregivers will make sure that your loved one's care plan is being followed and executed properly to ensure all of their needs are being met.

How Falls Impact Your Loved One’s Life

Every year, one in five seniors suffers a serious or lasting injury from a fall, such as a concussion, broken hip, or fracture. In general, it takes a lot longer for injuries in seniors to heal than in younger adults, which can drastically increase the time your loved one has to spend in a long-term senior care facility. Oftentimes, seniors who go to long-term care facilities for a fall-induced injury never return home again for fear of falling or inability to heal completely. Over 800,000 seniors are admitted to the hospital every year due to falls, and most seniors who fall once are likely to fall again. With Visiting Angels' home care assistance, our goal is not only to assist a senior who has recently fallen but also to prevent falls from happening in the home.

Other important statistics about falls in the elderly community:

• Every 19 minutes, a senior dies from a fall
• Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury in seniors
• One in four senior Americans experiences a fall each year
• The average cost of treating a fall is $30,000

We at Visiting Angels of Glendale understand how important it is to keep your elderly loved one safe from harm, which is why we provide home care assistance that is tailored to avoid accidents like these.

Visiting Angels of Glendale Can Help

At Visiting Angels of Glendale, we provide excellent in-home senior care so that your loved one can enjoy the best quality of life possible. Our home care assistance program offers seniors help in identifying risk factors for falling, and we even provide a free fall risk assessment during your in-home consultation. Most falls can be prevented by being aware of these risk factors that exist in your loved one’s home. Risk factors can include the physical or medical condition of your loved one, such as arthritis and dehydration, or your loved one’s surroundings, such as not having enough grab bars around the house. Using a cane or a walker can also reduce the risk of falling.

Reach Out to Our Care Team to Get Started

Visiting Angels of Glendale is dedicated to helping seniors and their families be aware of fall risk factors. Our one-on-one senior care services may be exactly what your loved one needs to keep their mobility and independence at home. If you are concerned that your loved one may be at risk of falling, call us today and ask about our home care assistance programs for seniors in Glendale, Peoria, Phoenix, and the surrounding area.