Keeping someone at home is mostly a series of small decisions
Still Home is a free newsletter about those decisions — what a stair lift actually costs, which grab bar placement matters, when a modification stops being enough. Written from published research, manufacturer specs, and public cost data, not from a sales script.
What lands in your inbox
Real numbers
Installed costs with the ranges broken out, so you can tell a fair quote from a padded one before you sign anything.
What the research says
Fall-prevention and aging-in-place findings from CDC, NIH, and AARP sources, translated out of study language into what to do this weekend.
Funding worth chasing
Medicaid waivers, VA benefits, and state accessibility grants — which ones are real, who qualifies, and how long they take.
Who writes this, and how it pays for itself
Porchlight at Home is an independent publisher. We research aging-in-place modifications and senior care options and write about them. That is the whole business.
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