Who wants a Home for Life?

By modifying your home to age in place, you make the goal of being home for life, reachable. Seeking a Home for Life consultant to determine the structural and non-structural changes that should be made to the home, provides ideas for improved living space that ensures safety for your later years. Should a disabling condition occur, your home continues to remain accessible due to the modifications made.

• Caregivers: Statistics indicate that 1 in 4 households in America, provide care giving to a family member now and 33% of baby boomers care for their parents. An effective way to ease the role of caregiving, is to make your home as accessible as possible for you and your family. This not only allows for mom or dad to have their way around your home, but also allows them to feel comfortable in doing so as they interact with loved ones around them. The more they achieve personal independence safely, the more you can feel at ease, knowing they are taken care of and feel good about them selves.
• Babyboomers: In the year 2020 the population of those 65 and older will be 54.6 million. By 2030, this number will increase to 80 million. Although we keep hearing these numbers, have we really thought about where we will live when we age? AARP has found that 71% would like to "remain in their home for as long as possible."
• The National Association of Home Builders, AARP, and the American Occupational Therapy Association have all expressed the need to reach a new population of baby boomers and advocate the concept of aging in place based on these study findings. Preparing now can help you to be home for life.
• Contractors: The National Association of Home Builders with the help of the American Occupational Therapy Association, has come to create the Certified Aging in Place Specialist (CAPS). Together both professions have established this credential to serve those who wish to age in place or need to modify their homes because of sudden injury, while maintaining the highest level of professionalism. To quickly meet the needs of these clients, occupational therapists certified in this area, can become members of the building team to assess and determine the medical priorities of the client. Our services can be sub-contracted, and will provide final suggestions to make the home accessible and safe.
• Social Workers: Providing patients with the needed information regarding home improvement after hospitalization has never gotten easier. This one time referral of service can address the patient and their personal and medical needs, asses their home or living environment for safety concern, and provide the final suggestions that can keep your patient safe and in the comfort of their home.
• Health Professionals: Your first priority is your patient and his/her needs and priorities. Trust Home for Life to make this our first priority. For occupational therapists, independence is always the goal and the key, is safety. At Home for Life we will strive to make this possible, by creating the environment most conducive to your patient and their level of function.