U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging recently released a report showing that 88% of adults over 50 want to age in place, but many haven’t given much thought to what it might take to make their house, apartment, or condo a safer, more comfortable and more age-friendly place that they can keep living in for years to come. Beth Spencer, M.A., M.S.W., a retired geriatric social worker at the U-M Geriatrics Center, and Sheria Robinson-Lane, Ph.D., who studies aging in place topics at the U-M School of Nursing, provide four key tips on how to successfully “age in place.”
