{"id":1218,"date":"2026-03-21T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/want-to-skip-the-retirement-home-heres-how-you-can-age-in-your-home-safely-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:00:04","slug":"want-to-skip-the-retirement-home-heres-how-you-can-age-in-your-home-safely-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/want-to-skip-the-retirement-home-heres-how-you-can-age-in-your-home-safely-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to skip the retirement home? Here&#8217;s how you can age in your home safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1218\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1218-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1218-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1218-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Although his parents lived in a one-level home, Walzer worried about his father's balance. His formerly robust dad had lost strength in his early 80s. \"So we started with grab bars,\" Walzer said. In the shower. Next to the toilet. Walzer bought a hospital bed and a recliner for his father to allow him to rise from sitting to a near-standing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/living\/article\/age-in-place-uconn-aarp-newington-home-builders-21369103.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although his parents lived in a one-level home, Walzer worried about his father&#8217;s balance. His formerly robust dad had lost strength in his early 80s. &#8220;So we started with grab bars,&#8221; Walzer said. In the shower. Next to the toilet. Walzer bought a hospital bed and a recliner for his father to allow him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 09:11:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}