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Aging-in-place home modifications: Have you considered your home’s potential for adaptation as you experience the natural changes of aging? Do you currently have problems getting around the house and need to figure out what must be changed and who can do the work? Good news: our aging-at-home expert has made accessibility consulting and design services her focus since 1990. Whatever your issue, she's here to help. Learn more >>
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What the Fair Housing Act Does for You
“Reasonable accommodation” ensures equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling
If you’re a renter with a disability, you might think you’re not allowed to alter your living environment to make life a bit easier. You might believe your only option is to leave. Not so! -
Evaluating Lifts for Your Home
Selecting the right device for you
If you’re looking for an alternative to stairs in your home, you probably think first of an elevator, but two other basic devices are marketed for home use: platform lifts and chair lifts. Each is useful for different purposes and different users. -
Attractive Ramps Increase Value and Safety of Homes
Ramps benefit everyone and every home
Are you worried that adding a ramp to your entry will create an eyesore? Ramps can be added to many homes in attractive ways that look intentional and discreet while enhancing value. -
Common Problems with Wheelchairs and Scooters
And common-sense solutions
Let's address two questions I often hear from clients: one on temporary postsurgical wheelchair use and one about scooters and too-high doorsills. The first is easily addressed with preparation; the second, with ingenuity. -
Having No Steps Brings More Visitors
Why a zero-step entry can enhance your social life!
Encountering steps limits social interaction and the ability for our friends and family to be engaged in our community and in our family lives. This isn’t right! -
Gay Seniors Gaining More Options for Retirement Communities
Traditional services not geared to LGBT population
As the number of baby boomers turning 65 climbs, so does the number of aging lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT) people. Currently, there are an estimated three million LGBT elders, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a figure that will more than double in the next 25 years. -
Gripping Tales: Handles for Ease and Comfort
Another inexpensive way to improve quality of life
The small things in life can be the most frustrating, tiresome, and painful, but it’s a great relief when they “fit” well. Am I talking about finding a great pair of shoes? No, I’m talking about the things in your home that you handle every day.
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CCRCs, CCAHs Offer Continuum of Care
One involves a move, the other lets you stay put
Active adults wanting to live in one retirement community that will take care of them into their frail years are turning to continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), which provide a continuum of care that includes housing, services, and health care, in one setting. -
Extended Trial Visits Help Sell Retirement Communities
Several-day stays are a new marketing tool
Considering the costs of buying a small home or apartment in a retirement community, along with monthly fees in the thousands—which pay for a multitude of services—you want to be pretty sure you like it ahead of time. -
Making the Retirement Community Decision: A Resident's Perspective
Challenging a false premise
Since selling our home and enduring the required downsizing, we’ve had many talks with friends and relatives who still live independently in their own homes and apartments. Frankly, a large portion think we were foolish to move. -
Aging in Place? You May Already Live in a NORC
Supportive services are a growing part of these communities
Funny thing about not moving out of your neighborhood: in time, you may find yourself living in a “naturally occurring retirement community.” This can happen whether you live in an area with older homes, in a high-rise, or in a complex of condominiums—in cities, suburbs, or rural areas. -
New FHA Reverse Mortgage Allows Home Purchases
Attractive new option for homeowners over 62
The HECM for Purchase program can be particularly helpful for older homeowners seeking a way to purchase a home closer to an adult child or grandchildren or a smaller home in a nearby community. -
Multigenerational Neighborhoods Pair Elders with Adoptive Families
Children from foster care are given a secure, loving environment
Living with purpose is what brought older adults and adoptive families raising children from foster care together in two unique multigenerational communities, first in Illinois, then, more than a decade later, in Massachusetts. -
Vary Kitchen Counter Heights for Easier Work, Happier Cooks
You don’t need a lot of money for a countertop makeover
Contemporary kitchen design recognizes that people come in varying sizes. As we age, we lose height, making variations even more pronounced. Best practice in creating kitchens that are safe and a joy to cook in calls for multiple counter or work surface heights. -
Cohousing: An Old-Fashioned Neighborhood
Intergenerational and senior cohousing are all about being a real community
Cohousing is intergenerational, which appeals to older adults wanting daily contact with children and younger adults. For seniors who prefer being around older adults, there’s a newer option: senior cohousing communities.
