Expert Briefing: Living Alone: Home Safety & Management

Parkinson's disease (PD) can impact a person's ability to live safely and independently in their home. This presentation will provide people with Parkinson's disease, their care partners, and health professionals with information and ideas to help them manage home safety problems associated with PD. It will focus primarily on falls but will also address other potential safety problems related to the motor and non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease. It will cover risk factors for home safety problems and strategies to prevent them.

At the end of this presentation, participants will:

1. Describe person, activity and environment-related risk factors and contributors to home safety problems associated with Parkinson's disease.
2. Understand the impact of home safety problems on daily function and quality of life among people with Parkinson's disease.
3. List potential strategies for managing home safety risks.

Presenter

Erin Foster, PhD, O.T.D., M.S.C.I., O.T.R./L
Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy, Neurology and Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine

This series is made possible by educational grants from AbbVie, Inc., Sunovion and Lundbeck LLC.

The Parkinson's Foundation designs Expert Briefings in collaboration with the Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society (DAPS); the Houston Area Parkinson Society (HAPS); the Michigan Parkinson Foundation (MPF); Northwest Parkinson's Foundation (NWPF); Parkinson Association of the Carolinas (PAC); the Neuro Challenge Foundation (NCF); the Parkinson Association of the Carolinas (PAC); the Parkinson Association of the Rockies (PAR); the Parkinson's Association (PA); and the Parkinson Support Center of Kentuckiana (PSCKY).