One of the issues my Dad encountered was his unsteady elderly gait. He just had issues with walking and not hanging on to items such as door jams, furniture, or just the plain old walls. Dad refused to use a cane or walker. It drove us crazy that his ego was too large to use the cane. Dad was always stumbling and we were afraid that one time he would fall as he leaped from door jam to door jam. My father-in-law made wooden canes from tree branches and would carve our designs and paint them. I took 2 of them to their house in Florida and he wouldn't have anything to do with them. So my tip for today is to add handicap rails to long hallways to assist in their walking down the halls, if possible. Dad was so happy that we added the rails, he would smile when he grabbed one, but of course never admitted that he needed them. We also added one next to the toilet so he could pull himself up when he got off the toilet and would steady himself with the rail when he was standing in front of the potty.