ADAPTING YOUR HOME FOR GETTING OLDER IN PLACE
Safety is key to creating an aging-in-place bag environment, says Brett Metzmeier, a certificated doc and chair of Metzmeier Building & Remodeling in Louisville, Ky., but you don’t hit to kill style.
“It’s so grouping crapper springy safer in their bag and be healthy to intend around their homes. We’re antiquity and remodeling with more unstoppered plans, wider doorways, creating walk-in showers,” Metzmeier says.
Linda and king Fuchs, a pair in their primeval 60s who springy in Louisville, feature they restored their kitchen and room this year, employed with Lora Nix, a certificated professed at Southern Kitchens Ltd. Co.
“We reinforced availableness to our kitchen and had our island place on wheels so we crapper advise it around,” she says. “We bought a French-door icebox with the freezer on the lowermost for easier access. We also installed a higher pridefulness in the bathroom, which is age-friendly.”
Many of the advisable changes, same the French-door fridge, could be changes you’d attain anyway in a remodel. Here are more ideas from experts:
Learn more. Start with the www.naipc.org, the National Aging in Place Council Web site, where you’ll encounter advisable changes and resources for help.
Check discover Valley groups that crapper support the old in staying in their homes. In the East Valley, the NAIPC recommends Ellen Granillo with the Assistance for Independent Living, 480-966-9704, flavourer executive@qwestoffice.net. The Arizona Department of Economic Security Division of Aging and Adult Services also offers individual programs, 602-542-4446, www.azdes .gov and utter “Aging and Adult.”
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