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[quote=Anonymous]My mom redid her apartment so she could age in place, including widening the doors so a wheelchair could get through and completely redoing the bathroom to put in grip handles and a ledge where a future CNA could sit to help bathe her.

At the time we thought it was a fabulous idea. She had money and a nice apartment (you know the building) she wanted to stay in.

In retrospect, not so much. Although she started acting bizarrely, she refused to get help even just in the mornings to get her oriented. My sister and I dragged her to her doctor to get him to tell her to get a CNA, because we thought she’d listen to him. He ordered an MRI and we expected to find a stroke, but it turned out to be brain cancer. A week later she had the operation and never got out of bed again (although she did have 24/7 CNAs).

Learn from our mistake: don’t make modifications to the house until you’re sure your parent will use them.

That said, there are some cool things out there. Like runway lights to the bathroom at night. And a refrigerator that calls you if your parent doesn’t open it by a set time each morning.

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