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TIPS FOR HEALTHY LIVING

For Your Health

• Eat healthy, avoid dehydration.
  
• Get prescription drugs, OTCs, creams, salves reconciled.
• Do some balance and strength exercises daily.
• Know your health red flags and what to do when a red flag occurs.
• Socialize as much as possible.
• Chronic illness, depression and anti-social feelings are not a normal part of aging.
  

For Your Safety

• Tape down mats and throw rugs.
• Stay off of ladders and stools.
• Make high usage items reachable from floor such as pots, pans, dishes, etc.
• Higher lighting levels where medicines are taken and sharp objects are used.
• Keep kitchen emergency kit (cuts, spills, gloves, and extinguisher).
• Keep emergency numbers by all phones.
• Keep a phone by the bed, in bathroom, kitchen, and living room.
• Emergency pendants save lives.
• Light your night time pathways.
• Avoid walking with bifocals on.
• Use grab bars, sit to exit tub.
• Change smoke detector batteries yearly; schedule with Fire Dept.
• Keep home entrances well lit, shrubs cut low, doors locked.
• Never accept free offers or one-day deals—they are scams!
• Call for HELP when needed.