You can improve your ability to move around the home with:
Getting around your home assessment
Do you have trouble...
Solutions to Consider
Standing at the bathroom or kitchen sink?
Traveling the hallways in your home?
Widening hallways, Adequate lighting, Use a cane, walker, or rollator or Three-wheeled rollators
Negotiating doorways and thresholds?
Canes, Walkers, Threshold ramps or Automatic door openers
Moving around in your kitchen?
Canes, walkers, or rollators, Compact scooters, Accessory trays and baskets, Wheelchair modifications or Accessible cabinets, appliances, and counter space
Getting around in your bedroom?
Getting up from your favorite chair?
Negotiating the exit areas of your home:
Into the garage or out the front door?
What about the sliding glass doors that lead to your garden?
Hand grips, hand rails, grab bars, Portable, permanent and threshold ramps, Canes and Step-up CanesTM or Hemi walkers
Going shopping?
Getting in and out of your car?
Dealing with public transportation or have trouble negotiating airports?
With an injury keeping you housebound?
Need more information? Ask a Lawtons Home HealthCare Consultant.
Call us for an in-home consultation!
Nova Scotia: 1-800-465-4553
New Brunswick: 1-866-990-1599
Newfoundland: 1-800-463-3366
Prince Edward Island: 1-855-566-1043
