Safety & Security: The Peace of Mind Senior Living Communities Provide

It almost sounds too good to be true: a comfortable, maintenance-free lifestyle that offers you exceptional amenities, services, and hospitality as well as an emphasis on senior living safety?

At Carriage Crossing, that’s exactly what we believe you should expect from a senior living community. Our philosophy and practices are aimed at ensuring residents have the freedom and security to age in place. That means getting all the details right.

Senior living safety: what it’s all about and why it’s so important.

Here are just a few of the thing today’s residents can expect to find in senior living communities that can help keep them healthy and active.

• Service-oriented lifestyle.Living in a senior living community means someone else is taking care of duties and chores so you or your loved one can rest easy. With a professional staff doing the housecleaning, cooking, and taking care of building maintenance, you don’t have to clean gutters, climb attic stairs, clear ice off a sidewalk, or any other task that could result in an injury. Instead, you’re free to find a new sense of purpose—and a new way to enjoy every day!

• Surroundings that are designed for senior living safety. It’s not often you get to live in an environment specifically designed for your wellbeing. Senior living safety is all about details like wider hallways, one-level living, accessible door handles and light switches, walk-in showers and more. The goal is always to help residents maintain their independence as long as possible and pursue healthy aging with vigor.

Not only do these details make getting about easier, but they also serve to help reduce the risk of falls, so important when you consider that according to the National Institute on Aging, more than one out of four older people falls, and three million older adults are treated in emergency departments for fall injuries.

• 24/7 assistance.Senior living communities follow guidelines established by local, state, and federal agencies to have a comprehensive plan in place for keeping residents safe and communicating with families. You can rely on a professional staff that knows what to do in the event of an emergency.

Talk about peace of mind!  How reassuring to know that you or your loved one can receive support anytime of the day or night, every day of the year. That means no worrying about stormy weather or power outages or who to call for help in the middle of the night—senior living safety is there for you when you need it.

• Scheduled transportation.Driving can be stressful for a person of any age, but it can be especially challenging over the age of 55. Problems with declining vision or hearing can make a quick trip to a grocery or to an appointment a dangerous journey. Add poor driving conditions and rush-hour traffic and the situation can become overwhelming.

In a senior living community, you can rely on scheduled transportation for necessities as well to scheduled physician appointments. As a bonus, there are usually group outings as well to area points of interest.

• Healthy socializing.Maybe one of the most popular aspects of senior living safety—making sure residents are staying engaged and connected in as many ways as possible. This is key to senior health and wellbeing, because research has linked social isolation to high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease and other chronic conditions. And it’s not just seniors who live alone; it also can be a senior who just feels left out and is lonely.

The good news is in a community like Carriage Crossing, staff members make personal contact and socializing an everyday focus through activities and programs for residents and their families. We get to know our residents on a deeper level so we can help them pursue new interests, express themselves through music, painting, gardening, and other stimulating activities, and know they are valued, cared for, and loved.

We focus on the fundamentals. Contact us to learn more.