Social Interaction and Recreation

As you get older you spend a great deal more time at home. The ability for family and friends to visit and being able to do the things you love to do becomes more important than when you are younger.

This audit looks at all issues that relate to your family being able to invite friends and loved ones over, pursing hobbies and accessing needed community facilities.

Social Interaction

Social Interaction relates to being able to access community facilities, public transport and essential services without difficulty in a safe and easily accessible way.

Part of this audit relates to having a "visitable" home, which means a home that is accessible to friends and family that may have a disability. As your parents age so are their friends and their ability to have a friend with a disability visit them in their own home becomes a real issue.

Part of being able to remain in your own home and community as you age is receiving needed support and assistance from family, friends and other external support services. In this day and age of WPHS rules and regulations the home needs to be a safe environment for carers and others who provide services to allow your family members to maintain their health, safety and independence.

These issues are all included in this Social Interaction section of this audit.

Recreation

Pursuing a hobby is not we always have time to enjoy with busy lives of family and work, but as we age we can have more time to slow down and enjoy different pastimes.

The home can contribute to the enjoyment of our favourite pastimes. Whether it be a task light over our favourite chair to help with that intricate cross stitch or an accessible workshop and storage for tools set up for a carpenter or sculptor small things can have a great impact of the enjoyment and longevity of our hobbies.