Home Modification For Seniors

By Rey Vetangelo


There are many professional settings in which you may find yourself working with elderly clients. When you are working with a lot of elderly clients, you should understand the importance of being sensitive to hearing loss and reacting well to your clients hearing loss.

Home modification for seniors is an extremely common occurrence as it allows individuals and aging couples to remain living in their own home instead of having to move into an assisted living home to help them perform their daily tasks. As age begins to interfere with the daily lives of the seniors living independently, it becomes apparent that changes are needed, but what specific changes or modifications to the home can be done to improve the quality of live for those living within the home?

This culture is particularly important for individuals who were born deaf, or became deaf at a young age. For individuals who lose their hearing later in life, this type of understanding is more difficult to achieve because they spent most of their lives in a very different community with different values and understandings.

When an individual cannot interpret what you are saying based on the volume of your language, you want to make sure that they have the other tools to use as well. Making sure that they have the other tools will ensure that you are able to be as clear and communicate clearly.

Another area of the home that seniors often struggle with, and that can be very dangerous if not addressed, is the bathroom. Here again due to the lack of mobility and muscle strength of many elderly individuals, the bathroom can become a place of hardship.

Cochlear implants consist of a few essential parts. First, a microphone that picks up sound from the world. Second, a processor which is used to distinguish sounds from one another. Third, a transmitter that takes the data from the processor and converts it to electrical impulses. Fourth, an electrode array that stimulates the auditory nerve to create the sensation of sound. This does not, in fact, replicate normal hearing, but it does create the ability for an individual to experience a representation of sound.

Although this may be a great way to save your time and save your clients time, when you are dealing with a client that has hearing loss you will need to slow it down. Make sure that you speak in short and simple sentences and you are not rushing what you are saying.

One's home is an extremely difficult thing to part with, and this difficulty only becomes deeper as one ages within the home.

Other useful tools for deaf individuals include captioning telephones and captioned call service. With these products and services, deaf individuals can use phones and make calls without the need for an interpreter. Either way, this is a wonderful tool.




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