Aging In Place Safely with Touch and Sense of Smell Episdoe 12
- 17:31
- August 10th 2018
On this episode of Age Safe®Live Well, Aging in Place expert Fritzi Gros-Daillon discusses how the loss of touch and smell impacts home safety and provides us with important tips for family and friends to follow that will help everyone, Age Safe® and Live Well in your home.
Age Safe® Live Well
Approximately one-third of adults age 65 years or older fall in their home each year, resulting in injury, long-term disability and premature institutionalization. Age Safe America was created in an effort to help reduce and prevent falls and their associated costs by promoting the necessity of making preparations NOW to ensure ongoing freedom and independence for all.
Fritzi is a highly successful entrepreneur in environmental consulting, senior move management and most recently, the aging in place home safety field. As a Senior Move Manager for 10 years, Fritzi worked with over 1000 families in New York while being a long-distance caregiver for her parents in California. In 2013 Fritzi founded Household Guardians, Inc. as an aging in place consulting firm. Her passion for keeping family members safe in their own homes for as long as possible grew from years of watching families struggle to make hard decisions. Her education, licenses and certifications combined with thirty years of business experience bring a combination of expertise and perspective to Age Safe America.
Fritzi provides strategic and operational oversight to ASA’s advocacy, communications and public relations efforts. Fritzi leads ASA’s training and education programs ensuring up-to-date industry knowledge to enhance the value of ASA membership. Her book, “Grace and Grit: Insights to Real Life Challenges of Aging for Adult Children and their Parents”, has won three national awards since publication in 2014.
Affectionately known as “The Bow Tie Guy" in the vast network of family caregivers, Christopher MacLellan is the Author of "What's The Deal with Caregiving" and the founder of The Whole Care Network.
Chris' masters degree thesis, Caregiving, Stress and its Impact on the Work Place was accepted by the faculty at Gonzaga University in 2016 where he earned a masters degree in Leadership and Communication.
Chris is the host of Healing Ties podcast, co host of How We Got Here Podcast presents regularly on topics that impact family Caregivers and now is Aging Gayfully after caregiving has ended.