Posts Tagged ‘Aging In Place’

Last fall Harold Stephenson, 89 and with dementia, was found outside his rural home in Mount Pleasant, N.B., without a coat and confused. His family was constantly worried it might happen at night or in the cold, where every minute would make him harder to find. Even with THE help of a FULL-TIME home care worker, a niece who drops by every day and two sons who check in many times a week, there was still the constant worry Harold might fall or wander—and it could be hours before anyone knew.

When people enter the home of Derek and Maria Lunden in North Vancouver or the home of Alison and Peter Faid in Edmonton, they are impressed by roomy kitchens and bathrooms, wide doorways and hallways, fine finishings and lots of natural light. What isn’t so obvious is that these private homes were designed to help their owners negotiate through the later stages of life, whatever life throws at them.