Don’t Wait to Age-Proof Your Home
It’s easier now than later
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4 min readMay 4, 2023
My mother-in-law Elaine fell trying to go down the steps from her house to the garage when she was 74. They were rickety wooden stairs with a wobbly rail, and my wife said they had been that way for the 12 years Elaine owned the home.
My wife and I had only started dating when her mom fell. I’d been to Elaine’s house once and went in…