The coronavirus is as scary and troublesome as it is a tremendous opportunity for us to push both the pause and reset buttons for our lives – any of us. We are pausing our daily routines as we have known them from the hectic pace that so many of us have maintained and moving to… Read more »

No matter what age we are, we can look back – mostly fondly – at events that we recall or that shaped our lives or made an impression on us. Unfortunately, many of those events that left an impression were more traumatic than pleasurable or enjoyable. Many of us likely have remarked – and news… Read more »

Our homes are not a typical possession. We obtain and handle many things over the course of our lifetime – shoes, clothing, sporting goods, automobiles, bicycles, stocks, bonds, collectibles, and places to live. We are advised by parents, brokers, and others whom we trust for their advice not to get so attached to any one… Read more »

For aging in place modifications, performing a home evaluation or assessment is the first step toward determining what a home might need and to achieve it. Using a checklist, assessment form, or evaluation sheet to examine a person’s living space and make notations about what is being done correctly and where there are shortcomings is… Read more »

There are many articles written about the need for, as well as how to go about, decluttering our living spaces, especially as we get older. We have many places where we store our stuff – basements, attics, closets, dressers, cabinets, garages, backyard storage sheds, and even storage spaces off-site that we rent. As a matter… Read more »

While we hear a lot of discussion about creating aging in place designs as if there is a type of approach that will work for everyone – a type of “cookie-cutter” or generic approach. However, designing for aging in place is a complex matter. Part of this idea – of designing for someone’s potentially changing… Read more »

As we look at aging in place solutions for our clients, we can focus on what is going on inside the home and what might be required or necessary to modify that space appropriately, or we can go outside into the backyard and create an accessory dwelling unit – also known as an auxiliary dwelling… Read more »

Over the years, grab bars in the home – especially in the bathroom – have been downplayed and distanced from our conversations. We don’t want to utter these words. So, we have created many similarly-named devices to do the same thing. We have assists, assist bars, safety rails, handrails, shower bars, shower rails, safety assists,… Read more »

There are many ways for us to approach helping someone to remain in their home long term. The aging in place designs we create are based on enhancing the general safety, comfort, convenience, and accessibility needs of our clients within their homes. These, of course, are dependent on a few factors such as the age… Read more »

We don’t always have a tape measure handy with us as we are walking through a client’s home, but we may not need it when it comes to approximating distances within the home. We have many ready references available to us that we can fall back upon to use as we are evaluating our client’s… Read more »