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Accessible Housing for Seniors: 3 Tips for Comfortable Living

  • Perla Irish
  • October 11, 2020
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  1. Make Your Home Wheelchair Accessible
  2. Upgrade Your Showers and Tubs
  3. Create the Best Layout Possible
  4. Make Accessible Housing Upgrades That Count

When you’re elderly or living with any kind of physical limitations, you’ll always need to make adjustments to your home. By making your home more accessible, it becomes easier for you to get around and travel from area to area without missing a beat.

There are a number of accessible options that will help you out more than others.

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Accessible Housing for Seniors: 3 Tips for Comfortable Living

Let the suggestions below help you get the most out of your quality of life through accessible housing solutions.

  1. Make Your Home Wheelchair Accessible

Without a doubt, investing in wheelchair accessibility will help your home more than anything else. You need to be able to get in and out of your home and up and down different elevation changes without an issue.

Begin with the installation of a wheelchair ramp. You’ll get from your vehicle through the front door without issue when you have a professionally installed ramp. Build the ramp to modern accessibility standards and you’ll never have an issue going about your daily life.

A wheelchair lift also makes your home better suited for your needs. It allows you to go up flights of stairs in your wheelchair quickly and conveniently. Further, look into installing any sort of railing or other safety precautions that you might need.

You can work with a company like totalaccesssolutions.ca that can sell you items like stairlifts, vehicle lifts, ramps, and more.

  1. Upgrade Your Showers and Tubs

Making upgrades to your bathroom will also improve your quality of life. There are tubs that open out and lock so that you don’t have to struggle climbing into it.

You can also invest in accessible showers that let you hold onto hand railing and get the support and stability that you need. The less effort that you put into daily tasks like bathing, the better you’ll protect your well-being over the course of several years.

  1. Create the Best Layout Possible

Finally, put some time into creating a home layout that serves you.

Setting up a first-floor master suite can help you make the best use of your layout. When your master bedroom is on the first floor, you reduce the need to go up and down flights of stairs.

Make optimal use of space in your household so that you can also control the flow of traffic. Work with interior designers that specialize in providing help to people with accessibility needs.

Add more lighting and also cut out potential health and safety risks. Keep your home clean and never let appliances and other fixtures go unfixed.

Make Accessible Housing Upgrades That Count

If you want the best accessible housing options available, the suggestions in this article will get you started.

Accessibility isn’t something that you can take for granted. The way that you respond to these everyday needs will affect you and your property for years to come.

Start by working with some contractors that can help you out.

Reach back out to use when you want to learn more about real estate and home living solutions.

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