Suddenly, even adding elevators to your house is a thing.
But is redoing big homes the only path to happilyaging in place?
Theyre reducing their footprint, especially all the boomers who were living in the extra-large 3,500-to-5,000-square-foot homes.
And they are being offered increasingly attractive options smaller, modular and more.
Here are some of the housing choices available to older Americans.
A new initiative in Pittsburgh may show us the answer.
It is being built by Structural Modular Innovations, a modular home builder just north of Pittsburgh.
The home was scheduled to be assembled on its lot in October.
The units are for sale and will be ready in April.
These buyers are active but not really interested in cutting the grass or tending a large garden.
They say, I cant be on my knees anymore.
There are different segments of boomers who all behave differently, says Slavik-Tsuyki.
The younger are very different than the older.
There are no families with children under these roofs, providing older people with a new sense of community.
But in at least one modern community, the families can be nearby.
In this experimental idea trend, pockets of 55-plus neighborhoods are being built within a larger, multigenerational development.
