Meal Prep
Use of these types of plates helps to reduce the need to wash them and reduces the risk that they will fall and break.
What are paper plates?
This bathroom safety device lets a person sit down while showering to save energy and to prevent falls.
What is a shower bench or shower chair?
Choosing pants, shirts or skirts with this type of waistband eliminates the need to manage zippers or buttons.
What is an elastic waistband?
Use of these by the toilet or in the shower can improve safety with sitting and standing transitions and improve balance when standing.
What are grab bars?
What is a basket?
This tool assists in transporting or carrying food items from one surface to another when using a rolling walker.
What is a walker tray?
This long handled tool helps individuals wash hand to reach areas like their lower back or feet without excessive bending.
What is a long-handled sponge/brush?
This long-handled tool prevents excessive bending or twisting of the spine when putting on shoes.
What is a long handled shoehorn?
This is another name for a 4 wheeled walker that has a seat for which seated rest breaks can be taken when walking.
What is a rollator?
Stopping to rest your hands and change your position these many minutes helps to make you feel less exhausted.
What is every 20 minutes?
Organizing frequently used kitchen items at counter height prevents unnecessary lifting or doing this movement.
What is bending or reaching overhead?
Performing grooming tasks while sitting a vanity instead of standing at a sink is an example of modifying this.
What is posture or body position?
Sitting on the edge of the bed or in a sturdy chair instead of standing up while getting dressed improves this safety factor.
What is balance (or fall prevention)?
This is the foot that should step down a step or curb first.
What is the weaker leg/foot?
Doing this between strenuous jobs (like vacuuming or scrubbing) and light tasks (like dusting or folding laundry while sitting) helps to give your body energy levels and a break.
What is alternating or switching task intensity?
Incorporating seated rest breaks when standing at the stove to cook is an example of this.
What is a pacing strategy or energy conservation strategy?
Wearing this type of robe to dry off instead of rubbing with a towel, helps to reduce fatigue after a shower.
What is a terry cloth robe?
This tool assists to put on socks when an injury or condition limits your ability to reach your feet.
What is a sock aide?
This principle involves using wheeled carts or utility trays to move laundry or meal supplies instead of carrying them.
What is eliminating unnecessary carrying/transporting?
This strategy focuses on one room completely before moving to the next, or sorting items by category (whites, colors, reds) to reduce decision fatigue.
What is cleaning by category or zone?
This type of knife helps people with limited hand function to cut food.
What is a rocker knife?
This strategy involves setting out soap, shampoo, and towels before starting a shower to avoid unsafe reaching or fatigue.
What is advance preparation?
This technique modifies the dressing sequence by dressing the affected or weaker side first and undressing it last.
What is the weak-side-first dressing technique?
This type of cane has 4 points on the bottom of it to provide more stability when walking.
What is a quad based cane?
This strategy helps to manage having to do a lot of laundry at once and keeps the volume from compounding by running exactly one load per day from start to finish.
What is "One-and-Done" daily habit?