Most seniors prefer to stay and age in their own homes. Aging-in-place needs form a spectrum from wellness-focused supports for people in their fifties to intensive medical services for centenarians. The wellness side of care is better prepared in the U.S., while home-based medical treatments such as dialysis expose gaps in home readiness and technology. Current retirement communities often address wellness and simple safety features like fall prevention. Aging-in-place technologists and designers adapt homes with bars and handles for individual needs. Efforts target rural and underserved populations and seek cross-sector connections, including reverse mortgage lenders, to close technology gaps.
If you're talking about your age 55 group and thinking about aging in place, it's different from when you are age 100 and thinking about aging in place. The needs range from wellness topics to serious in-home health care. And I would say the wellness side is better prepared in the U.S., versus senior care for the older adults whose needs require more intensive medical care for example, home-based dialysis care.
I think that space is much less prepared. A lot of the current retirement homes, of course, take consideration of wellness and some of the features they can put in are easy ones, like fall prevention. And there are aging-in-place technologists and aging-in-place designers that are fitting into individual needs to design a bar here, a handle here, for the stairs, for your bathroom.
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