It’s that time again. Each May, we celebrate “National Remodeling Month.” What a perfect tie-in to aging in place renovations. Some years, comparing purchasing a new home or having one built, acquiring an existing pre-owned home, or remaining in place with or withourt any renovations, the nod goes goes to new construction because new homes… Read more »

When it comes to aging in place evaluations and renovations, we tend to look at someone’s ability as being fully capable of physical and sensory activities or disabled to some degree. While there are people in-between, we tend to approach our design considerations in working with people who have a visible and pronounced disability of… Read more »

Aging in place is simple – it requires no real work on our part other than adjusting and adapting to what life puts in our path. Still, the basic dwelling space we require – as simple or elaborate as that might need to be according to our budget and personal lifestyle requirements and preferences –… Read more »

As great as aging in place is as a strategy for people to remain in their present homes and to eliminate one of life’s classic challenges of finding suitable shelter for ourselves, there is nothing that dictates the type of dwelling people must have as they occupy their forever homes. Nor is there any requirement… Read more »

The Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson notwithstanding, people are not created equal. We have very different abilities, and those abilities are subject to change throughout our lifetimes. Some of us are more able-bodied than others, and some of us can perform more activities than others. Some of us enjoy better health. In short, we… Read more »

Last year (2018) the American Occupational Association (AOTA) celebrated its century milestone. That one-hundredth birthday means that their members have been providing home assessment, modification, and consultation services for longer than we have been thinking of aging in place as a specific discipline – a lot longer. It’s appropriate that we acknowledge and talk about… Read more »

In business, many of us are familiar with the expression of “go-no-go” as it applies to deciding whether to approach or embrace a particular opportunity, pursue a specific client, align ourselves with a course of action or other business, and other directions that can affect the outcome and performance of our business. We are faced… Read more »

If we go back just a decade, aging in place as a term and as a concept was just starting to catch on. If we go back much further than that, it was hardly known by this name. It’s not that aging in place was not being done by anyone or that no one talked… Read more »

Most of as we get older come to a realization that the home we are living in – no matter how long that has been or why we selected that particular home – will continue to serve our needs as we get older. Even when that is not entirely true without a few modifications or… Read more »

While it’s true that some people have not located their forever home yet, so many people have done so – even if they have not formally declared it or admitted it to themselves. Finding a forever, long-term, permanent, lifetime, or ageless home that is our residence for the remainder of our days – however long… Read more »