There is a list somewhere on your phone or your browser history — grab bars, ramp, wider doorways, lever handles, pull-out shelves. Somewhere on that list is the modification that actually matters…

The bathroom in her mother's house has one towel bar. It runs along the wall beside the tub — chrome, decorative, installed sometime in the 1980s — and it is not a grab bar. It was never meant to…

There's a particular kind of math you do without meaning to. The last time you talked to your parent. Whether anything in their voice was off. Whether the two days since then mean nothing, or mean…

Martha Swick used the phrase "taking a step back." Her husband Bill, 53, has corticobasal degeneration — a rare brain disease that has taken his ability to feed himself, dress himself, and travel to…

Two things are probably true right now. The first: you've heard that Medicare telehealth got complicated — something about a shutdown, something about rules changing — and you're not entirely sure…

When a loved one returns home after a brain injury, the biggest challenges are often the ones you can’t see. You might notice they can walk to the kitchen or get dressed without help, yet they still…