When elderly people stay healthy, they can live at home for a long time with relatively little care. In the first health complaints, more attention is needed to ensure the same comfort of life. Think together with your environment on time and anticipate the necessary care and tools you need to get in your home.
When someone needs more care, there are 2 possibilities:
- Adjust the current property
- Moving to a rest and nursing home.
But is this choice as easy as it seems? De Standaard and De Morgen published in late 2016 that there are 22,000 retirement beds in Flanders.
Fortunately, there are also very good solutions to live at home for a long time.
The role of the municipality
Be sure to join the municipality which services exist in your city or village to enable longer independent living at home. You will be amazed what is already available. e.g.: food delivery at home, hairdresser at home and nurse at home; help cleaning, ...
The human contact is also nicely included.
Allow elderly to live at home longer with the help of appropriate tools (ADL products)
Being able to live at home means that someone can do his or her General Daily Life Directions (ADL) himself. Help in these actions comes in the form of customized tools. For example, to be able to take care of yourself, easily get into and out of bed, provide their own meals, etc...
Making elderly people live longer at home thanks to ICT
Meanwhile, there are a lot of apps and smart watches on the market that monitor an older person, and signal when it detects a problem. The most famous is the wrist alarm watch where an older one automatically calls emergency services when they have fallen and can no longer stand upright.
and then Add to Home Screen.
