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Who cleans your house?

Aging Well | Last Active: 1 day ago | Replies (67)

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I love your answer- do what you can, but don’t feel guilty if you decide to off-load some tasks.
I had to have spinal surgery and have lower leg neuropathy, so I hired a guy who does the bathrooms and floors, yard work as needed, and I do the rest.
Walking balance and stamina is difficult so I signed up for grocery curbside pick-up and do delivery when ice/snow are on the ground.
My husband needed to go into AL, so I have a guy who does snow removal and the mowing.
I used to work in health care. I regularly had patients with bone fractures from falling off ladders, so even when my husband was able, I arranged for a company that does gutter clean-outs.
If there is anything I could convince you to do- stay off ladders. Please check the statistics for outcomes for seniors with fractures.
Saw lots of ladder-to-roof- for whatever falls with various fractures and combinations of fractures (spinal/femoral/hip (s)/humeral/wrist (s)/) but only saw one caused by fell-asleep-in-a-tree stand and down he went.

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Also saw a senior, who fell off a ladder hanging drapes in her living room, bilateral hip fractures. To all my senior Connect online friends- it’s not worth the danger.

Thanks, I have an eye on the stats for seniors and falls. I hope I'm smart enough to get up on a ladder the last time successfully before that fateful fall. I am in a position where I can hire someone to do the odd bit of maintenance, and my wife's stern looks should help to make me bite the bullet, so to speak. 😀
i appreciate your friendly caution. Thumb up.

May I ask? I'm having Dr app burnout. I gym ea morning. But, it's crazy, you do something, and feel it lol. I was trimming some animal hooves. She jerked..I twisted my right hip. This happened two yrs ago. The chair in shoe shop collapsed. I went to chiropractor. He took x-rays, did smoke n mirror sales- pitch. Drumroll.. n Q: I've been working on it slowly at gym. Could I have a tiny fractor??