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Aging at home, or aging in place, means that seniors remodel their homes to adapt to the increasing physical limitations of aging by widening doorways, improving lighting and using other universal design principles. We show seniors and their caregivers how to help seniors age in place.

Articles About Aging At Home
  • Kitchen Fires: Make Cooking Safer for Seniors
    Kitchen fires are one of the leading causes of fire in the home among seniors. Here are some fire safety tips for making cooking safer for seniors.
  • Will You Be Able to Sell Your Home?
    Most middle-aged boomers and older seniors have amassed a lot of equity in their homes. But in a depressed economy, will they get the home prices they expect when they sell--especially since they'll have a lot of competition when prices improve? Here's how to maximize your nest egg when you sell, and to find other ways to tap into your home equity.
  • Will You Be Able to Move Down to Another Home?
    Although most middle-aged boomers and older seniors will remodel their homes so that they can "age in place," eventually they will want to move to a smaller place such as an active adult community, assisted living, or some other form of senior housing. The problem: At least for smaller urban homes and apartments, there will be a lot of competition from the echo boomer generation.
  • Sell or Stay? The Coming Competition for Senior Housing
    Middle-aged boomers and their older parents will be looking for smaller homes and other types of living arrangements, including active adult, assisted living facilities and other types of senior housing as they get older. But they will be facing competition from a surprising source: their children and grandchildren.
  • Aging at Home with Intentional Communities
    "Intentional communities" enable the elderly to stay at home longer with full access to assisted living services and thus offering respite for the primary caregiver.
  • Younger Seniors & Older Elderly: How Nursing Homes are Adjusting
    More and more generations are living with one another in nursing homes. There's a culture clash happening in nursing homes: younger seniors (60s) and older residents (80s). Here is the issue that nursing homes face with residents of different ages.
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  • Seniors' Home Equity Falls Sharply
    Even though senior home prices remain depressed, Americans over the age of 62 still had $3.21 trillion in home equity in the first quarter of 2011, according to the latest NRMLA/RiskSpan Mortgage Market Index. But that's far below peak levels, meaning the elderly have less borrowing power when it comes to home equity loans, lines of credit and reverse equity mortgages. Still many older people are paying down their mortgages anyway.
 

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