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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you put a chairlift on the stairs? For the steep driveway, cut stair into it and put in a lift there too?[/quote]

That's a lot of effort when with one hip break or other major fall the person may need to go to rehabilitation and then residential. Plus, how will you one day cell a house on a hill with a chairlift on the driveway? I have never seen this. If there is an HOA, good luck getting approval. If there isn't neighbors may be angry about the eyesore and if it decreases their home value, they can take legal action.[/quote]

Also, by the time you find a contractor to do this and the work actually gets done and paid for, the situation could be totally different. things change in an instant with the elderly. One bad fall or bout with illness and an able bodied person is totally disabled. One surgery and someone with mild or no dementia is suddenly moderate post surgery. You can throw endless money and keep doing remodeling at the home and next thing you know you haven't finished age proofing and they have to be moved a full time care place ASAP. They you have a house in the middle of renovations that is empty and will not sell.[/quote]

Yikes ok we get it you don’t like the idea [/quote]

Dp, but honestly they are correct.   Someone in their mid-80s isn’t going to be improving.  Falls are very damaging, and it will be difficult to remove the fall risk from this home.   I understand their impulse to not move, but for most people it is better to move to a suitable interim solution than to retrofit a house for circumstances that are prone to changing at any time.  [/quote]

This. It’s not worth it. My parents are in this process and it was kind of working until it suddenly isn’t. [/quote]

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