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Of course a healthy lifestyle is important but to believe it is a guarantee to prevent issues with stairs is simply not the case.
Moving homes is both expensive and difficult. People are often attempting to avoid potential problems. It's like those who say they don't need life insurance because they are young, healthy and active. Planning for the possibility isn't the same as resigning oneself to the inevitable.
How is it not?
You are buying a house with the idea that you won't be able to climb stairs. Major purchase and you are limiting your options to one stories, sometimes decades ahead of when you may or may not actually need to. That sure sounds like resignation to me.
When my husband and I were house hunting to buy the house we have now, our realtor asked us if we were "sure" we didn't really want a bungalow. Because of the stair climbing thing. We were in our early 40s, and active. The house we bought has two storeys, and a basement laundry room. Oh the horror! lol
I'm not sentimental, so I can't imagine clinging to this house if I for some reason can't get around. We'll deal with mobility issues when/if we have to.
When my husband and I were house hunting to buy the house we have now, our realtor asked us if we were "sure" we didn't really want a bungalow. Because of the stair climbing thing. We were in our early 40s, and active. The house we bought has two storeys, and a basement laundry room. Oh the horror! lol
I'm not sentimental, so I can't imagine clinging to this house if I for some reason can't get around. We'll deal with mobility issues when/if we have to.
Exactly. There are stair lifts you can put in for heaven's sake.
I think its really sad that healthy people who are too young to worry about this yet are organizing their lives around an idea of infirmity. I am not talking about people who are already infirm. I am talking about adults who are still moving with ease. And I even bought into this idea enough to ask my doctor about it.
...or you could move to a single story house when you are 50 or 60, continue to have an active and healthy lifestyle and not have to move at 70 or 80 or if your elderly parents move in or you have an unforeseen (or even foreseen) health ussue.
Many of us are not home all day - we work outside the home and our activity is planned outside the home in any event. Walking before or after work, taking the stairs rather than the elevator, parking a distance away from the entrance, going to the gym, yard work on weekends.
You are buying a house with the idea that you won't be able to climb stairs. Major purchase and you are limiting your options to one stories, sometimes decades ahead of when you may or may not actually need to. That sure sounds like resignation to me.
Did you even read my first post?
There are a host of reasons one might be wise to plan ahead. Not all of them have to do with laziness or resignation.
...or you could move to a single story house when you are 50 or 60, continue to have an active and healthy lifestyle and not have to move at 70 or 80 or if your elderly parents move in.
Many of us are not home all day - we work outside the home and our activity is planned outside the home in any event. Walking before or after work, taking the stairs rather than the elevator, yard work on weekends.
I don't know what being home all day has to do with anything. I am not home all day, but another poster said she worked from home.
We will have to agree to disagree. I believe that a lot of health has to do with attitude and positivity. Picture yourself unable to move and plunk down a bunch of money on a house 20 years before that even happens, and dollars to donuts your prophecy will be fulfilled.
Single-story homes are safer at any age. Falls (along with bicycles) are a leading cause of injuries resulting in a trip to the ER. Falls down a flight of stairs are among the worst and most common kinds. There are much lower risk exercises that one can do. Climbing up and down actual stairs is akin to having unprotected sex. It's a case of asking for trouble.
Climbing up and down actual stairs is akin to having unprotected sex.
Well, that's a non-sequitur.
I'm happily married and have been having unprotected sex for over 20 years now AND going up and down stairs, so I guess I'm just a risk-taker at heart.
I'm happily married and have been having unprotected sex for over 20 years now AND going up and down stairs, so I guess I'm just a risk-taker at heart.
Single-story homes are safer at any age. Falls (along with bicycles) are a leading cause of injuries resulting in a trip to the ER. Falls down a flight of stairs are among the worst and most common kinds. There are much lower risk exercises that one can do. Climbing up and down actual stairs is akin to having unprotected sex. It's a case of asking for trouble.
It makes me really sad to see posts like this. Its one thing to be safety conscious, but seriously? This is like saying you should never have a bathtub because you can drown, a bed because you can suffocate under the covers, etc.
Come on guys.
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