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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not that you can't walk stairs, [b]it's that you shouldn't. [/b][/quote]

That's ridiculous. Yes, most will get to a point where they can't handle stairs. But if you aren't there yet, you should be keeping as active and mobile as possible and regularly climbing stairs is helpful with that.

My mom lived in a house where they had a few steps up to the bedroom level and a full flight to get out to the garage and she handled them fine. Moved in with my sister, in a 1st floor master, where she never goes up more than 1 step to get into the house and her mobility rapidly declined (age early 80s). It was really shocking what a difference it made.

As we think about a retirement home, it absolutely needs a 1st floor space that can be used as a bedroom + a bathroom but in the near term, I'd prefer a house with stairs. If we happen to end up with a ranch then I'm going to have to be more intentional about building that baseline level of activity into daily life in other ways.[/quote]

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