Save Your Grandma
Your parents are aging; heck, you're getting older, too. An additional 35 million more seniors are expected in the US by 2030. What can you do to encourage your community to make it safer and more accommodating for senior citizens?
Here are five recommendations from a recent report by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging about what some communities are doing:
1. Change zoning: Cobb County, Ga., created the nation's first "residential senior living zoning district," which allows more homes an acre near grocery stores and other services.
2. Redesign roads: Volunteers in Richmond, Va., found that sidewalks were missing near a key hospital and identified intersections that were hard to cross.
3. Allow "granny flats": Santa Cruz, Calif., hired architects to design residential units that can be added to existing houses to accommodate older relatives.
4. Enlarge road signs: Michigan Department of Transportation is reducing glare on green highway signs and making yellow ones brighter to make them easier to read.
5. Keep good records: Mansfield, Mass., maintains emergency medical information files for every senior, as well as an Alzheimer's tracking system.
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I lvoe my grandma
Install emegency button to press on in every apartment lived by seniors. It helps if they fell and no one was around, like advertise on telly.