Joseph CascianiGeropsychologist, Consultant, Public Speaking, Freelance · Podcast Host of the Living to 100 Club | Clinical Strategies for Senior Residential Settings & Lifestyle Directors | Geropsychologist | Keynote Speaker

How to Future-proof Your Home and Create Safer Living Spaces with Caryn Leventhal

23 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Caryn Leventhal explains why 80-90% of seniors want to stay home instead of moving to assisted living. She describes "future-proofing" a home: making changes now to prevent falls and other risks before they happen, so people can age safely in place.

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How many of you want to live in a nursing home when you get older? Yeah, 0%, right? Nobody aspires for that. Assisted living is becoming more mainstream because they're marketing it as, you know, like being on a cruise on land and you have all these amenities and they are amazing. Yes, they are. Yeah. Yeah. But still, despite all the positive marketing and the positiveness of those communities, people want to stay home. There's no place like home. 80, 90% of people want to stay home. And I really help those people who are— that's their goal, to stay in their house. And I try to be very proactive with them of things they can do to prevent any problems happening. So I'm all about prevention and looking forward into how we can keep them home, and I call it future-proofing.