Comments on: Fire safety for older adults http://www.blisstree.com/articles/fire-safety-for-older-adults-135/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:59:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Latte Man http://www.blisstree.com/articles/fire-safety-for-older-adults-135/comment-page-1/#comment-81912 Latte Man Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:37:29 +0000 http://www.genbetween.com/fire-safety-for-older-adults/#comment-81912 Can I add considering Carbon Monoxide Monitors. Many elderly yet capable, may still keep up with their smoke detectors and such, but just as many are blissfully unaware of the risks of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. And since these detectors are (relatively) new things, many don't even think about needing/getting them. Can I add considering Carbon Monoxide Monitors. Many elderly yet capable, may still keep up with their smoke detectors and such, but just as many are blissfully unaware of the risks of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. And since these detectors are (relatively) new things, many don’t even think about needing/getting them.

]]> By: Pete http://www.blisstree.com/articles/fire-safety-for-older-adults-135/comment-page-1/#comment-81910 Pete Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:03:01 +0000 http://www.genbetween.com/fire-safety-for-older-adults/#comment-81910 At the end of my mother's living with us, she nearly burned the house down by setting the electric tea kettle on the stove to heat water. Not only did the thing start to burn up, she didn't seem to notice that the house was full of smoke. All the training and information and fire extinguishers in the world wouldn't have changed a thing. By that point in her life, Mom needed 24-hour supervision, but we were in denial and wouldn't see it--until that day. At the end of my mother’s living with us, she nearly burned the house down by setting the electric tea kettle on the stove to heat water. Not only did the thing start to burn up, she didn’t seem to notice that the house was full of smoke.

All the training and information and fire extinguishers in the world wouldn’t have changed a thing. By that point in her life, Mom needed 24-hour supervision, but we were in denial and wouldn’t see it–until that day.

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