Comments on: What are the “Must Have” Features in Your Retirement House http://www.topretirements.com/blog/home-and-garden/what-are-the-must-have-features-in-your-retirement-house.html/ Retirement Communities: How to Find Yours Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:49:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Admin http://www.topretirements.com/blog/home-and-garden/what-are-the-must-have-features-in-your-retirement-house.html/comment-page-1/#comment-4177 Admin Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:07:08 +0000 http://www.topretirements.com/blog/?p=206#comment-4177 Jan is dead on about universal design, perhaps the most significant movement in housing today. Check out this interesting video on universal design by Eskaton - http://www.eskaton.org/facilities_programs/eskaton-innovations/esk_demo_home%20_welcome.htm Jan is dead on about universal design, perhaps the most significant movement in housing today. Check out this interesting video on universal design by Eskaton - http://www.eskaton.org/facilities_programs/eskaton-innovations/esk_demo_home%20_welcome.htm

]]> By: Jan Cullinane http://www.topretirements.com/blog/home-and-garden/what-are-the-must-have-features-in-your-retirement-house.html/comment-page-1/#comment-3782 Jan Cullinane Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:48:55 +0000 http://www.topretirements.com/blog/?p=206#comment-3782 One big must is to incorporate the concepts of "universal design" into your retirement home, making it easier to "age in place." Things like handles rather than knobs on doors (easier to open), taller counters (not as much bending over), comfort height toilets - those extra inches really make a difference, a curbless shower (easier to access), etc. There is an entire list (for both inside and outside of the house) in my book, The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Rodale 2007). These things are easy to integrate if you are building or re-modeling - we don't want to live in "Peter Pan" housing (thinking we will never grow up - or old!). Jan Cullinane, co-author: The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Rodale 2007) One big must is to incorporate the concepts of “universal design” into your retirement home, making it easier to “age in place.” Things like handles rather than knobs on doors (easier to open), taller counters (not as much bending over), comfort height toilets - those extra inches really make a difference, a curbless shower (easier to access), etc.

There is an entire list (for both inside and outside of the house) in my book, The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Rodale 2007). These things are easy to integrate if you are building or re-modeling - we don’t want to live in “Peter Pan” housing (thinking we will never grow up - or old!).

Jan Cullinane, co-author: The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Rodale 2007)

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