A few Safety Tips for Seniors

Although you may not feel any differently than you did at 20 or 30, once you hit 60 you should take certain actions to prevent injury.    Your bones don’t heal as fast, and for some, a broken hip is a death sentence.

Many injuries as easily prevented.  How?

SIT DOWN

When you dress, sit down.   Pull on your pants in a seated position, and as they reach your thighs, you stand and close the zipper.  Too many older people have lost their balance and fallen doing something as simple as getting dressed.

When you have to open a jar, sit down.  It becomes easier and you won’t be off balance.  Do as many things as you can in a seated position.

Pay Attention

Too many seniors are injured because they are so busy thinking about what they are not doing.

For example, you are walking along the hall thinking about a phone call, and slip. Because your mind is on something else it takes a precious fraction of a second to try to balance.  That fraction of a second might be life or death.

What ever you are doing, from cutting an onion to reaching for a cup of coffee, focus on that.  If anything comes into your mind, stop what you are doing.   Focus.

Too many seniors are injured simply because ‘their mind wanders’.   When you were very young a lot of times you were injured because your mind was wandering.  You dropped things, you made a mess because you weren’t focused.

Usually, about the age of twenty one has that focus, that is because they are conscious of themselves.   How they look to other people, or simply how they look.  They want to walk a certain way so concentrate.  They want to look cool, so focus.

At about sixty years old one no longer cares how they appear.  Hence, they return to that wandering mind.   Don’t. Focus.