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• Use a speaker phone or headset for hands-free use.  Do not rest the phone between your ear and shoulder.
• Have the fluorescent lights above your work area disconnected.  Use incandescent table-top lamps instead.  In fact, if you have fluorescent lights in your kitchen, bathroom or other rooms in your house, you may want to consider switching them out.
• Ask your employer for a LCD flat screen monitor, which do not flicker like the traditional CRT monitors.  If you cannot get a LCD monitor, try a screen filter, which are available in most office supply stores.
• Make sure your monitor is at the proper height. The middle of the screen should be at eye level when you're sitting up straight.  You don't want to slouch in your chair or have to look down to view the screen.  There are many types of lifts available at most office supply stores to raise up your monitor.  

• Make cooking a family affair.  Let the family help wisk, stir, chop etc.  Have others do preliminary clean up by putting things in the dishwasher or washing dishes used to prepare food as you go.   If you can't get help during dinner preparation, have your family clean up after dinner.                  
• Prepare vegetables, etc. while sitting down at a table, for example.                  
• Use the dishwasher and if you don't have one, let the dishes air dry, then put them away.

• Have rails put along side of all stairs and if necessary, in the shower/tub.      
• Pay bills via telephone or on-line banking.        
• Do not stand on stepstools, chairs, ladders, etc. and have someone else clean all high areas.