Top Gadgets and Tools to Make Home Care Safer

Top Gadgets and Tools to Make Home Care Safer

Being an adult child who has to face the uncertainty of finding proper care for your aging parent or loved one is stressful. It’s even more so if your parent wants to remain in their home for the duration. Take a deep breath. These challenges are all solvable in simple, easy ways.


One of the easiest ways to give yourself peace of mind is by using various tools and gadgets on the market. These items can ensure that your loved one remains in their home and gets the assistance they need while you hold onto your peace of mind.


After all, a worry-free situation for your loved one is ideal for both parties. Technology today can go a long way toward bridging the gap between you and your parents and establishing a line of trust, communication, and safety.

Gadgets & Tools for Home Care

Home care doesn’t have to be a challenge for you or your loved one as long as you use all the assistive options out there. Hiring a home caregiver will make a huge difference, but what other ways can you ensure safety?


As mentioned above, today's technology can help establish safe boundaries within the comfort of your parent or loved one’s home. Here are some quick tools you can add to your loved one’s home to ensure they are always looked after in all areas of their health.

Patient Monitoring Systems

A patient monitoring system will be your first defense regarding aging loved ones. Finding one that works best for your needs is always a journey filled with research and weighing the features against each other. These systems can be as simple as a falling-down help button device or as complex as a combined fall prevention button and home alarm system that tracks your loved one's movements. Both are helpful in that they can immediately alert the necessary people to help should a problem occur.

Appliance Attachments and Adjustment Tools

Adding easy grips to door handles, cabinets, toilet bowls, and other items around the home will help your loved one remain independent and safe within their home despite diminished capabilities. Another great way to ensure safety is by adding grab bars in the shower and next to the toilet in the bathroom. These grab bars can be helpful throughout the home but provide the most assistance in areas of likely slips and falls. 

Home Health Items

You can add many tools to your loved one’s home to ensure they keep up with their everyday health. For starters, you can help them program devices like Alexa or Siri to give them medication reminders. Also, ensuring they have thermometers, pulse oximeters, and blood pressure monitors for health maintenance will go a long way toward giving everyone peace of mind. It is also essential that you have all their medications and over-the-counter remedies clearly labeled and stored in a place where they can easily access them as needed.

Landline Phone

While cell phones are great tools, some aging individuals find all the bells and whistles of such devices complicated to keep up with or understand. Also, they aren’t much help if the power goes out and the devices can’t be charged. Landline phones are the perfect solution to keep your loved ones in communication with you, as well as their support network of friends, family, and doctors. To help them in need, you can even ensure they have a list of essential numbers right next to the phone or programmed into it. Landlines are also easier for all users to read and navigate.

Emergency-Specific Communication Devices

In an emergency where your loved one might be unable to help themselves or is alone, having emergency-specific communication devices on hand goes a long way toward helping. As we mentioned, having assistive devices such as a fall-prevention button device on hand allows emergency professionals to become aware when a problem happens. Emergency-specific landline telephones on the market have quick speed dial options and no-hang-up features should the phone ever fall from your loved one’s hands.

Benefits of Having These Tools on Hand

We’ve already discussed some benefits of having these tools on hand, but let's explore them further. Beyond safety, there are other reasons for having these tools on hand that will make your loved one feel more at ease and give you peace of mind regardless of your situation.

  • Fall Safety - Some tools help prevent falls or alert authorities when a fall occurs. 

  • Communication - Having a landline is beneficial for more than just safety. It will allow your loved one to stay in touch with those they care about, increasing the chances of positive mental wellness if they are home or bedbound.

  • Awareness - With tools that monitor everyday health available to them, your loved one is more likely to be aware of their own health and determine when something isn’t quite right, leading to a better overall health response.

  • Accessibility - Certain landline phones make life easier for those with vision or hearing loss thanks to large, clearly visible buttons and alert lights when they ring. Also, using tools that create labels for various items can help all kinds of aging individuals, from those with memory loss to those with vision and hearing loss.

How MedPat Solutions Can Help You Out

MedPat Solutions can’t solve all of these challenges or concerns. However, we can provide many items that ensure peace of mind and safety as your parent or loved one ages. Please reach out if you are unsure what devices might be best for your family. We are happy to assist you in making the correct moves to ensure continued safety and wellness.

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