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Tips for Keeping Your Elderly Family Member Safe While Showering

Are you worried about your loved one slipping or injuring themselves while showering? The right safety products can help keep your loved one a bit safer.

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Outfitting Your Bathroom for a Special Needs Child

Keeping your child safe is always a top priority for parents, and it's one that becomes more challenging when your child has special needs. Here's how to make your bathroom as safe as it can be.

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What to Look For When Selecting a Home Safety Company

Are you looking to make a home safe for a disabled or elderly loved one? If so, consider these factors to help you find the right home safety company.

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Is Your Older Parent Safe at Home Alone?

Do you know the warning signs your parent may need at-home care?

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Help Keep Your Parents Safe at Home

Help your loved one with mobility issues live a safer, more independent life at home.

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Is Home Safety Equipment just for the Elderly or the Disabled?

Home Freedom, serving the entire Twin Cities area, offers a wide variety of home safety products that help seniors and those with disabilities lead a safer life. Bathrooms, bedrooms and your whole home in general become optimized for people who may need assistance with mobility. These amenities help prevent injury or even loss of life, but more importantly, provide a sense of freedom that some people could not otherwise experience. We empower people to live fuller lives, and safer ones by the same measure.

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Have an Elderly Parent Living On Their Own? Make the Bathroom Safer for Them

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every three individuals aged 65 or older will fall at least each year. Unfortunately, this can lead to broken bones, head trauma and other injuries. While a fall can occur anywhere within a home, they commonly occur in bathrooms. This is because it can be hard to get in and out of a bathtub, a floor can be slippery when wet, or their legs give out after sitting on the toilet. It can be nerve wracking to have an elderly parent living on their own. However, there are things that can be done to make the bathroom safer for them. Here are three ways a bathroom can be made safer for your elderly parent or parents who live on their own.

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Falling Risks and Home Safety

You understand the importance of safety and incorporate it into your daily life. You don’t run with scissors or dive into the shallow end of a pool because you know better. Do you also know that most accidents happen during routine daily activities? That’s why it’s important to set up your home to prevent injuries by having basic safety features incorporated into the layout of the house. Some safety features you may associate with elderly or handicapped people, but the same measures make perfect sense in any home by making it integrally safer in order to prevent potential falling accidents.

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Top 5 Home Safety Products Every Senior's Home Should Have

As a person ages, the chances of having an accident or misstep increases, sometimes putting their independence in jeopardy. These almost-inevitable occurrences do not have to mean a loss of autonomy and mobility that keeps people feeling like they are young, though. With a few well-placed safety products, it is possible to protect a senior's quality of life -- and perhaps even improve it as well. 

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Four Reasons to Improve Home Safety for Seniors

When seniors choose to stay in their homes and live independent lives, health and safety risks increase because of seniors’ susceptibility to wet surfaces, sharp edges and falls. Given these risks, improving home safety should be a priority not only for seniors, but also for their loved ones. Enhancements in safety can lead to peace of mind, higher living standards, better health and longer lives.

 

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When you work with Home Freedom, you can be sure that you’re getting honest service from a team that genuinely cares about the safety and independence of seniors in the area.

Our mission

The process of aging or the onset of infirmity can be very difficult for both the elderly and their families. Senior citizens and those with disabilities fear becoming a burden to their families, losing self-sufficiency and being unable to do the things they enjoy and are accustomed to. We strive to return that precious capacity to our clients through the quality products and exceptional services we offer.

Our products

Seniors and those with disabilities are increasingly empowered to stay in their homes. Home Freedom LLC believes they should have that right. With a few adjustments, most homes in the Minneapolis, MN area can be equipped with ramps, grab bars, toilet safety accessories, automatic door openers, bed rails and much more - all of which help maximize independence in the comfort of your own residence.

Our process

Home Freedom is dedicated to providing you with quality care and the best in safety enhancing equipment. When you are working with Home Freedom LLC, you can be sure to receive:

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