Creative in-home changes

As adults grow older, their mobility and self-sufficiency often is compromised. Increasingly, rather than moving into facilities that can accommodate newly acquired wheelchairs or walkers, aging boomers and their children are having their homes modified so that they can “age in place.”

Harry Poehlmann, owner of Poehlmann Construction Co. in Fort Collins, typically remodels or builds custom homes that range from $1 million to $7 million, but said physical ailments are the same no matter the economic level.

“I’ve noticed that older people are healthier than they used to be,” Poehlmann said, “but they’ll make modification changes as a just-in-case scenario.”

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