Protect Your Loved Ones For many people their home is considered their safe haven, a place where they can roam freely without fear of being in danger. However, for our elderly loved ones, if their home is not properly kept up and strategically designed for...
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Safely Age-in-Place With These Common Area Modifications
Knowledge Is Key The popular trend of aging-in-place continues to grow as senior safety, monitoring products and senior-friendly home design become increasingly more reliable. In fact, in 2009 93 percent of all Medicare enrollees over the age of 65 were already aging...
5 Kitchen Tips to Help Your Elderly Loved One Age-in-Place
Protect Your Loved Ones When it comes to aging, it often feels like everything changes. From our bodies and mobility to our schedules and everything in between it all changes. While some change is good, it can be hard to deal with so many changes at once, which is why...
SATECH, Inc. Acquires Fastech Labs for the Industrial Athlete Marketplace
Let Us Support You Chehalis, WA, January 2016 – SATECH, Inc., developer of the market-leading SmartCells cushioning technology announces the acquisition of Fastech Labs, the visionary, decades-long trend-setter in foot and ankle support. “The result is a true blending...
Your Guide to Keeping Your Elderly Loved One Safe This Winter
Knowledge Is Key Winter here in the Pacific Northwest often consists of two different weather options based on the temperature. If the temperature is moderately warm, then it is typically raining or windy; if the temperature is cold, it is either snowing, icy, sunny...
Holiday Tips to Keep Elderly Loved Ones Healthy and Safe
Keep Your Loved Ones Safe With less than three weeks until Christmas, the holiday season is in full swing. Stores are filled with Christmas decorations, trees and holiday lights are up and holiday parties fill the calendar. While all the previously mentioned things...
SmartCells Cyber Monday Deals You Don’t Want To Miss
Treat Your Self Today is perhaps the best and worst Monday of the year. On the downside, it marks the end of a long holiday weekend and the start of a new, often long week at work. On the bright side today marks the end of the long Black Friday holiday shopping...
6 Ways to Prevent Fall-Related Injuries on the Playground
Protect Your Loved Ones We often blog about the perils our elderly loved ones face when it comes to falls and fall related injuries. However, another group of dearly beloved that are at a particularly high risk of experiencing a fall are children. According to...
How to Prevent Pet-Related Falls
Protect Your Loved Ones The leaves have turned colors and many have already fallen to the ground. Not only does this week mark the beginning of fall and end of summer, it also marks the 8th annual falls prevention awareness week. During this week-long event, senior...
The 3 Things You Need to Know to Prevent Falls Outside the House
Knowledge Is Key As you may recall from our blog last week, the entire month of September is Falls Prevention Awareness Month. The pinnacle of the month long campaign against falls takes place on the fall equinox, September 23, 2015. This day marks the 8th annual...