We need to know how much he can carry out his daily activities on his own. Then the house is being redesigned according to his needs concerning the architectural fact of the house and usage and placement of the furniture. For example we can arrange the first floor for his daily activity needs and design the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen and stair lift to reach upstairs easily. Extending the doors, door thresholds, bathroom, sinks, kitchen sinks and shelves need to be redesigned. The house must be designed according to the needs of the person and be suitable for the person living with him.

While making changes in the house and applying assistive products the person’s daily activities are increased. Such as the Transfer Bench which helps to go inside the bathtub from a wheelchair, nonslippery straps to prevent falling, holding bars to hold on and make balance, support fixtures to get up and go into bed, closet lifters and remote controls to open and close doors.

First an investigation for the reason of fallings should be done as a health problem and solved. Loss of any physical activity should be examined and determined. Considering that the over aged people who are even healthy spend most of their times at home, it is a must to redesign and reconstruct their homes against these kind of accidents to protect them. In general homes do not respond to these needs and over aged people suffer from potential accidents such as falling in their homes. Precautions to take may vary for each house according to the architectural design of the house, features of the objects and their placement in the house, door and window opening systems, distribution of the halls and fittings, number of people living in the house, their ages and habits. But there are some basic precautions that we can mention. These are considering the wet surfaces which may cause falling, and assembling holding bars for places where needed for holding and walking, toilet lifts and toilets with bars to hold. To avoid falling doors should be without thresholds but have pass profiles. The furniture and illumination of the them must be suitable. The wideness and height of the stairs must be appropriate and on each side of the stairs there must be handrails and they must be illuminated appropriately.

As you know Alzheimer’s, which is a fast moving and untreatable neurological desease, has got may stages and different symptoms appeare in these stages and they need to be monitored by a specialist doctor. Things to be considered at home are making the patient less dependent to the third persons at home, increasing his capability and accesibility, and making his home suitable for his daily activities. Infact you need to start with taking precautions against home accidents for healthy over aged people. If the over aged person has a desease you need to take special precautions to protect him and people living with him. Patients have individual differences but they also have some similarities. Some special precautions to take are to remove any plants that may be poisonous and allergic, to cover plugs, to lock every cupboard and drawer where you keep medicine, vitamins and knives, balcony doors and windows where you do not want the over aged person to enter without notice, to cover windows which are wide, edge and corner protectors for furniture with sharp corners and edges, to cancel locks of the room doors, to use big fonts for writings to make the person remind and perceive them easily, to use signs, pictures and colours for guidance, to make the aisle floors and side walls in constrast colours, to design all walking routes against falling and slipery, to remove things like keys, keyrings, coats, shoes out of sight which may stimulate going out. For hallucination problems, illumination without shades, removing big pictures, small objects of decoration and masks.