Collection: Dementia & Alzheimer's

Caring for someone with dementia. Here's what makes home safer for both of you.

Dementia and Alzheimer's disease progressively affect memory, judgment, orientation, and the ability to recognize and respond to everyday risks. For families and caregivers, the home environment becomes one of the most powerful tools available — a well-equipped, thoughtfully modified home can reduce accidents, ease daily care routines, and extend the time a loved one can safely remain at home.

Dementia changes how a person experiences and navigates their home:

• Impaired judgment and reduced awareness of danger make unsupervised access to the bathroom, kitchen, and stairs a significant safety risk
• Disorientation — especially at night — increases the risk of falls, wandering, and injury in familiar spaces that suddenly feel unfamiliar
• Reduced ability to communicate pain or difficulty means physical limitations often go unnoticed until an incident occurs
• Changes in depth perception and visual processing make steps, thresholds, and dark hallways genuinely difficult to navigate safely
• Caregiver assistance with bathing, dressing, and toileting is easier and safer with the right equipment in place for both the caregiver and the person receiving care

Dementia is one of the leading risk factors for falls and fall-related hospitalization — and most incidents happen at home, often in the bathroom or during nighttime movement. Grab bars, bed rails, door alarms, shower chairs, and non-slip surfaces are not just safety products. They are what make it possible to keep a loved one home longer, with less risk and less caregiver stress.

The most recommended products for dementia and Alzheimer's care at home have each been hand-selected by home safety Occupational Therapy Practitioners to support safe, dignified daily living for both the person living with dementia and the family members caring for them.