Safety For Seniors E-Book

Suzann Dodd

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

A short guide for Seniors as to the various 'hacks' to be used to insure safety and comfort for as long as possible.  And, of course, to avoid obvious dangers.

Leseprobe

Suzann Dodd

Safety For Seniors

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Prologe

PROLOGE

Unless you die young, you are going to become a Senior. You might not feel differently at 60 then you did at 40, you might still see yourself as you were at 30, but trust me, the mirror isn't lying.

For some, the entry into Senior could happen at 50. For others, it could be 70.

Although governments may put up markers, i.e. 'retirement' at 65, you have to go with your body, your reality.

Don't look at the calendar, look at yourself and what you can and can no longer do at your prime.

The longer you live the more changes, (to put it nicely) will occur, and either you admit it, or suffer the consequences. The consequences can be dire.

If you stand on that chair to dust that chandelier and fall, even if the fall is two feet, and break a hip, you are in more trouble than if you broke both legs in six places when you were thirty.

That broken hip will put you on your back and likely, your coffin.

You don't stand on anything you could drop off of.

This kind of mindfulness, is to become the pattern of your life.

Chapter One

'Mindfulness'

I am not going into any kind of spiritual fantasy, I am talking about a be here now mentality. I focus on exactly where you are in the universe every waking moment.

Where you are, what you are doing. Thinking about where you are, what you are doing.

From the second you stand up, be conscious of where you are, where you are going.

Don't think about anything else. Think about what you are doing. If you are walking to the kitchen, think about every step, and where you are going.

In this way, it is less likely you will trip over anything, walk into anything, bang into anything.

I emphasise this first, because this is how most seniors wind up in the hospital or coffin.

Senior had a dream about something that happened fifty years ago. Fascinated by the people, places, words, Senior gets out of bed. Senior's mind is on something that happened long ago, so Senior doesn't look where the slippers were put, steps on one, falls.