Good design begins
with understanding.

Aging-In-Place
Remodeling Checklist

National Association of Home Builders

The checklist moves from everyday features—lighting, handles, flooring, and entries—to bathroom access, circulation, and larger changes. It supports a room-by-room conversation and a progression from small improvements to longer-term remodeling.

Applied to the homepage: concrete examples around the home, three distinct service tiers, and a plan that separates today’s priorities from future possibilities.

The checklist describes itself as noncomprehensive. It is not a construction specification; its bathroom turning-space wording also differs between sections. Dimensions, support, drainage, and clearances need project-specific design and applicable code review. Using this source does not establish a CAPS credential or NAHB endorsement.

Aging in Place:
Growing Older at Home

NIH National Institute on Aging

NIA emphasizes planning ahead, checking the home room by room, addressing immediate hazards, and revisiting needs over time. Not every modification is necessary for every person, and practical support beyond the physical home also matters.

Applied to the homepage: address homeowners and family members equally, ask about routines and goals, and explain the value of a written plan. Keep the homeowner’s choices central to decisions.

Home improvements cannot guarantee that independent living will always be suitable. Remodeling is not a substitute for medical or personal care.

Preventing Falls
and Hip Fractures

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC includes removing trip hazards, installing bathroom support, using stair railings, and improving lighting among ways to make the home safer. Its guidance also addresses health, medications, exercise, and vision.

Applied to the homepage: Tier 1 focuses on visible, practical improvements to familiar routines and commonly used routes. The copy says “safer” and “reduce common hazards,” without promising an outcome.

The home environment is one part of fall prevention. The proposed service has no evidence supporting “fall-proof,” “injury-free,” or quantified risk-reduction claims.

HomeFit Guide

AARP Livable Communities

AARP frames home adaptations around comfort, safety, and usefulness for people of different ages and abilities. Its official resource introduces an illustrated home guide and room-by-room material.

Applied to the homepage: use a residential, adult visual language. Show a comfortable, ordinary home and practical choices, without presenting older adults as uniformly frail or dependent.

The official page’s search-index text was available; opening the page directly returned an access error. The guide PDF was not treated as inspected. No AARP endorsement is implied.

Older Users and
Web Accessibility

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

Many barriers experienced by older web users overlap with established accessibility needs. Low contrast, small controls, distracting layouts, and difficult navigation can make a website harder to use.

Applied to the homepage: readable typography, high-contrast color pairs, generous controls, visible keyboard focus, plain labels, and reduced-motion support.

Applying accessibility guidance is not proof of complete conformance. Claims should describe the actual testing performed on the finished website.

Packages and
free assessment

Customer pricing supplied November 9, 2026

The business-supplied packages replace the earlier research-informed planning-fee suggestions: Safe Start $1,000–$2,000, Comfort & Independence $2,500–$4,500, and Full Accessibility $5,500–$15,000. These ranges describe home modification packages, with final scope and pricing agreed after assessment.

Every project begins with a free home assessment and written modification report. Optional add-ons have their own customer ranges, including annual maintenance, extra grab bars, doorway widening, smart-home expansion, a straight-rail stair lift, additional flooring, and threshold ramps.

Full Accessibility is always individually quoted; the displayed range is a starting guide, not a ceiling. Work depends on the home, feasibility, and agreed scope. Funding eligibility and benefits must be confirmed with the relevant program or policy. No insurance approval, grant amount, direct billing, or out-of-pocket result is promised. Plan selection remains a local notes-planning action; no checkout or booking is connected.

Arizona ALTCS

AHCCCS

Eligible members may receive home modifications through an assessed need and approved service plan, with required approvals and registered contractors. Routine maintenance is excluded from this benefit. Read the AHCCCS home modification policy.

Veterans’ housing grants

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

VA adapted-housing grants may help eligible veterans and service members with qualifying service-connected disabilities. Disability and home-ownership requirements depend on the grant. Review VA eligibility and housing grant options.

Medicare Advantage

Medicare & CMS

Some plans offer optional supplemental benefits that may include qualifying home modifications. Benefits, eligibility, limits, and member costs vary by plan; confirm the specific work with the plan before proceeding. See Medicare’s plan cost guidance and CMS guidance on supplemental benefits for chronically ill enrollees.

Private coverage
and self-pay

Your individual policy and project quote

Long-term care insurance benefits depend on the individual policy. Ask the insurer about covered modifications, eligibility, approvals, and reimbursement. Self-pay projects follow the agreed project quote.

A home walkthrough does not replace a clinical assessment. An occupational therapist or other qualified clinician may need to assess clinical requirements. Confirm funding and any required authorization before work begins. These options do not guarantee coverage, approval, or a particular out-of-pocket cost, and do not establish Dignity’s direct-billing or claims-filing availability.