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Dementia Home-Safety Plan
A dementia home-safety plan should address wandering, exits, cooking, medications, falls, firearms, driving, scams, nighttime supervision and emergency contacts. Build it with the person’s clinician and family, update it as abilities change, and preserve independence where risk can be reduced. No checklist replaces an individualized medical and safety assessment.
How can families reduce wandering risk?
Use a current photo and identification plan, alert trusted neighbors, secure hazardous exits in a way that still allows emergency escape, and ask the clinician about sudden or new wandering.
What about the stove and medications?
Consider automatic shutoffs or supervised cooking, lock hazardous products, use a medication system overseen by an appropriate person, and review all medicines with a clinician or pharmacist.
What changes at night?
Improve lighting and bathroom paths, reduce trip hazards, monitor patterns, and decide who responds if the person wakes or exits. Repeated nighttime activity may require awake supervision.
When should the plan change?
Review after a fall, wandering event, hospitalization, medication change, new transfer difficulty or caregiver burnout—and any time the current plan cannot be followed reliably.
Who this is for
Families supporting a person with memory loss at home
When this may not be the right option
Anyone treating a checklist as a substitute for clinical or emergency advice
Talk through the details
Ask Pink Glove Care for the current schedule, rate, minimum hours, screening details and agreement terms that apply to your family. Get the answers in writing before care begins.
General education, not medical, legal or financial advice. For urgent symptoms or immediate danger, call 911 or the appropriate clinician.