Patient Safety

This is a practical guide to making decisions about staying in your home, adapting it to your changing needs and maintaining a great quality of life.

This is a practical, non-technical guide to minimizing the occurrence of falls as well as their devastating effects. The book recommends taking stock of one's current level of health, physical abilities, ongoing medical concerns and current medication. It covers the risk factors of falling, how to alleviate them, as well as some general practices for living a healthy life.

MedicAlert Safely Home program offers protection, an effective way to identify the person who is lost and bring the family back together. The page explains how this program works, how much it costs and provides registration and contact information for those interested in enrolling in the program.

This is a comprehensive resource that outlines various measures that one can take at home to avoid accidental falls and make home environment safer. Topics also include the benefits of physical activity and keeping track of medications. A number of helpful checklists are also included. Pdf version is also available.

A set of 5 questions that is nationally and internally recognized to help patients and caregivers in improving communications with their health care provider on their medications.

This guide examined housing options designed to meet the needs of people living with dementia; support services that can help caregivers; principles to help manage housing for persons with dementia; and environmental design elements that can increase the safety of people living with dementia as well as that of their family and caregivers.

This factsheet provides information about fall incidents among older adults, risk factors and preventive measures that can be taken to prevent falls.

MedEffect Canada provides consumers, patients, and health professionals with easy access to information on drug-related risks, adverse reactions, side effects and drug safety. There is also access to the latest drug advisories, warnings and recalls.

Aging related changes greatly increase our risk of injury. The book provides guidance on how to prevent injury due to threats that abound in and near your home. The author, a safety expert, explores the home environment and points out potential hazards and the ways of preventing them. Information on hazards encountered by people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia is also provided.

This page provides information on making your home safer and better adapted to the needs of someone living with Parkinson's disease. It lists general safety guidelines, devices, adaptive equipment and other home adaptations that help in maintaining independence. 

NCPIE works to address critical medicine safe use issues like adherence improvement, prescription drug abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, medication error reduction, quality improvements in healthcare provider – patient medicine communication and safe storage and disposal of medicines.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers simple strategies for senior on managing medications safely.