Resources

We understand that modifying your home and coordinating services to support the later years can be a challenge. Below are links to some of our favorite aging in place resources and tools to help you along the way.

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AARP HomeFit Guide

The AARP HomeFit Guide was created to help people stay in their homes they love by turning where they live into a “lifelong home,” suitable for themselves and anyone in their household. The guide offers solutions that range from simple do-it-yourself fixes to improvements that are more involved and require skilled expertise, but are well worth the expense. 

Community Support in the Chicago Suburbs

Aging Care Connections provides client-centered care that focuses on improving the quality of life for the older adults. Services are delivered in a caring and compassionate manner by a team of highly skilled, objective and unbiased experts in the field of aging. Comprehensive information is available for programs and services that support emotional, physical, mental, financial and healthy living needs.

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Smart Home Technology to Assist Aging in Place

Tech isn’t just for the young. Now aging in place technology allows us to live in your own home happily and safely. Family Handyman provides a look at 11 technologies that can transform the way we age in place.

Resources to Support Growing Older at Home

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s National Institute on Aging provides information and access to multiple government agencies, programs, and resources to support aging in place.

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8 Reasons to Downsize Before You Have To

Taking action sooner than later means more space, more freedom and more money. Pre-downsizing pays off for a wide range of reasons: strategic, physical, emotional and financial. Here are eight of them. 

12 Must Have Products for Living Alone

Senior Safety Reviews talked to the leading specialists in aging, eldercare and geriatrics to decide on the products and then found the brands offering the best bang for your buck. All of these products have helped thousands live an easier, happier, safer and more independent life in the comfort of their own home.

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