Placing your grandparents in a nursing home sometimes is not the best option. You can now keep them close to you if you build a granny pod in your backyard! Granny pods are
becoming the most popular home trends and to those who are not aware of what granny pods are, these are tiny homes perfect for your grandparents. If you do not want to put them in nursing homes, this is the best choice for you. It would be nice to have them live in their own little flat just at the back of your home.

MEDCottage – Is It For You?
The basic MEDCottage have 8-foot interior ceilings and it measures 12 ft X 24 ft. When you go into a granny pod, there are interactive video displays that would be able to measure things like your blood pressure. The French doors are built in to accommodate residents that are bound to a wheelchair. The kitchen would contain a small refrigerator, combined washer-dryer, a microwave, and also a timed medication dispenser. The bathroom has “smart” devices that can be installed which will include a toilet that can measure the person’s weight, temperature, and also urine content.

The granny pod is only for one person but an additional bed can accommodate a caregiver. These pre-fabricated and fully-equipped units can be installed in your backyard and easily hooked to an existing sewer, power, and water lines. These pods can cost up to $125,000 and they are totally worth it! Each of the units is equipped with safety features which include hand railings, first aid supplies, defibrillators, and even lighted floorboards.

Additional Features That You Can Add
Some additional features that you can potentially add to your granny pod would be a “virtual companion” that can relay health-related messages and play music, games, and movies for you, a video system that would be able to monitor at an ankle-level so that the patient would have their own privacy but still the caregiver would know if grandpa or grandma needs help. You can also have a pressurized ventilation installed to keep airborne pathogens or maybe keep the outdoor air out to reduce putting the patients’ health in a compromised situation.

A lift can also be attached to a built-in track mounted in the ceiling so that it would be easy to move a patient to and from the bathroom. The granny pod already has good lighting but in addition, you can have lighting at knee high installed that would line the walls and illuminate the floor to keep our loved ones from tripping over objects that can cause fatal falls.

Granny Pods Are Safer Than Nursing Homes
We have heard such a large number of cases about elderly abuse in nursing homes and we don’t need our parents or grandparents to experience this. Not all nursing homes are reported to have abuse cases however this happens more often than we expect, enough for children and grandchildren to be worried for their folks. With your grandparents living comfortably at the back of your home, you are certain that they are more secure from abuse that they can potentially experience in the nursing homes.