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What are your tips for staying independent at your own home?
Aging Well | Last Active: Nov 1 12:41pm | Replies (187)Comment receiving replies
Keep moving, do a lot of walking. Maybe lift some small weights to retain muscle and of course eat right. Now for the house itself, get wall to wall carpet in as many places as you can afford to do it. Don't forget hand grips in the bathroom. Get every thing, rooms & appliances, on ground level if possible and at night have good lighting. That's it for me...
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I live in a two story home, but we, my husband and I have set it up so that we live on just the first floor. He is soon to be 88 and I’ll be 87 in January. He has alz., probably mid stage, and I have several diseases..polymyalgia rheumatica, CKD and a few other things. We do amazingly well, but the challenges are ahead of us. My son does live upstairs but we live separately, and independently, and oversees, but only streps forward if he has a concern. Er dtay in our own lanes.
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Sometimes you don’t feel like doing house chores but I do everything by my self by thinking it’s some kind of exercise you don’t have to pay a gym fee for but free if you are able to do physical work.