Home & Daily Living Guide
Welcome to our ALS Home and Daily Living Guide. This practical guide aims to help people living with ALS improve their everyday quality of life and empower both family and paid caregivers with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to provide the best care possible.
ALS Mental Health
Learn about emotional changes, counseling, support systems, stress management, medication options, and ways to care for mental health with ALS.
ALS Leisure & Recreation
Discover ways to adapt hobbies, social activities, travel, outdoor time, and recreation so people living with ALS can continue meaningful activities.
Setting Up Your Smart Home
Explore smart home tools and environmental controls that can help people living with ALS manage lights, doors, phones, entertainment, and daily tasks.
ALS Range of Motion Exercises
Learn how stretching and range of motion exercises can help reduce stiffness, improve comfort, support flexibility, and maintain movement with ALS.
Energy Conservation & ALS
Learn ways to plan daily activities, save energy, reduce fatigue, and use support or equipment so energy can be reserved for what matters most.
ALS & Sleep
Find practical guidance for improving sleep comfort, positioning, breathing support, pain management, and nighttime caregiving routines with ALS.
Eating & ALS
Explore guidance on safe eating, swallowing, food modification, hydration, adaptive devices, and caregiver support as ALS-related mealtime needs change.
Dressing & ALS
Find clothing modifications, adaptive footwear ideas, and assistive devices that can make getting dressed safer, easier, and less tiring with ALS.
Grooming & ALS
Find practical tips and assistive devices that can make grooming tasks like brushing teeth, shaving, washing hair, and nail care more manageable.
Bathing & ALS
Learn about devices, safety strategies, and caregiver support that can help people living with ALS bathe safely, conserve energy, and maintain comfort.
Toileting & ALS
Learn about bathroom safety, toileting equipment, privacy, caregiver assistance, and strategies that can make toileting safer and more comfortable.
Transferring with ALS
Find guidance on transfer techniques, assistive devices, caregiver safety, and equipment that can help people move safely between beds, chairs, and wheelchairs.
Mobility & ALS
Explore mobility equipment options, fall prevention strategies, and guidance for choosing walking aids, wheelchairs, and other devices as needs change.
ALS Home Accessibility
Explore home modification ideas and equipment options that can make entrances, bathrooms, bedrooms, and living spaces safer and more accessible.
ALS Home Safety
Learn ways to reduce fall risks, improve home safety, prepare for emergencies, and create a living environment that supports changing ALS needs.
This guide was created by the ALS Hope Foundation and Your ALS Guide, an educational website for families impacted by ALS.
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