When I started this series about getting ready for life at 65 and beyond, I had no idea this year of planning and executing those plans would go by so quickly. With just a couple of months left, I was feeling the self-imposed pressure and realized my husband Darnay, 64, and I needed to get to work making our Lansing, Mich., home more suitable if we’d age in place here.
What we knew: our current physical challenges and fears around aging in this place. This observation wasn’t pleasant, because knowing how your body has changed, writing it down and making a plan to address it can be humbling and real. The best hack would be to move the washer and dryer to our second floor to avoid all the up and down walks to the basement, but we have no space for that without a major renovation.
To help prevent falls, we’ve added light switches at the top and bottom of each staircase. I also bought night lights and placed them in sockets strategically around the house.
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