aging in place remodeling in Kansas City

Free On-Site Consultations

We don’t offer cookie-cutter answers. When you come to us for home modifications for aging in place in Kansas City, we provide the custom solutions you need.

Licensed PT On Staff

You can trust our solutions will support your lifestyle. Our in-house physical therapist assesses each and every home modification to ensure our installation plan is sound.

Certified Mobility Specialists

Home modifications for aging in place in Kansas City aren’t just about making getting around your home easier. It’s about creating mobility and independent living solutions that empower seniors. That’s our expertise.

Warranty Protection

All products installed by Independent Home Solutions have factory and labor warranties.  Independent goes above and beyond our competitors by extending the factory service warranty on select products up to one year.

Why should I have a professional build my wheelchair ramp?

Professionally constructed wheelchair ramps are held to higher safety and quality standards than the DIY type.  Your handyman neighbor, or maybe your supportive family, may offer to build a wooden ramp for a lesser price.

However, as kind as the offer may seem, for the safety of aging at home seniors, your ramp should be built following specific guidelines and standards, using materials that won’t degrade as the seasons go by. A well-designed and expertly built ramp minimizes the risk of accidents and injuries that could occur when navigating stairs or uneven terrain.

As professional designers and installers, our entire team is dedicated to ensuring your  ramp’s slope, width, and railing all comply with state and federal safety regulations. Plus, IHS can make recommendations for systems that might work better than a ramp for your specific needs—including vertical lifts.

With our knowledge of options, and our design and construction expertise, you can reduce the chances of slips, trips, or falls both outside and inside the home.

Does a stairlift make my stairs harder for other people to use?

Our stairlift systems are designed to provide maximum mobility assistance without obstructing access to your stairs. We accomplish this by utilizing 3 smart design features:

Sleek Profile: Our chairlift track is slim and unobtrusive. We install it on the side of the staircase, allowing your chairlift to travel up and down using minimal space. You’ll still retain the majority of your staircase’s width so that family, friends, workers, and those young people moving your furniture will have plenty of room to go up and down the stairs. Plus your pets won’t have obstructions in their path, either!

Fold-Up Profile: The comfortable and sturdy seat, footrest, and armrests fold up and out with ease. This makes sure your stairs remain free of obstruction from your stairlift system. 

No  Need for Wall Support: Some older or less advanced stairlift systems need wall-mounted support to be stable. This creates issues for specialty stairways and/or freestanding staircases. Our stairlifts don’t require wall support. Instead, ours mount on the treads themselves, leaving walls and/or railings and sides unobstructed and undamaged. 

Is a walk-in shower necessary when I have a shower stall already?

There’s a reason seniors who choose to age at home often install walk-in showers. Traditional shower stalls usually have raised lips or edges where you enter the stall. They also have swing-style or sliding doors which can require unaffected balance to open/close.

People who are  mobility or balance challenged find navigating these hazards difficult, and they can contribute to making the bathroom one of the most dangerous rooms to navigate in the home—especially when surfaces are wet and/or slippery.

Your walk-in shower from Independent Home  Solutions doesn’t have raised edges at the entry or a door to open or close. Instead it operates like  a “shower room.” Entering and exiting is easier with the ultra-low threshold, semi-open or fully open design, and your choice of support bars and full tiling.  They make a shower more spacious while still fitting in a small space, and look modern and stylish while doing it.

What exactly defines a “mobility issue?”

A Cornell University study defines ambulatory or mobility issues as a disability involving “serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs.” Unfortunately, 36% of U.S. adults 65 and older have mobility issues, with the percentage a little lower for the 65 to 74 group, then growing higher at 75 years of age, and worsening for adults 85 and older.

Ambulatory/mobility issues cause increasingly severe access issues as we age. Whether it’s navigating staircases, entry and exit points of the home, or addressing the slight level changes within the home itself, all of these can create trip/fall hazards.

Independent Home Solutions offers many years of experience helping seniors age in place safely and successfully with ramp installations, stairlift improvements, and bathroom support enhancements. Plus our estimates are free, so you have nothing to lose and freedom to gain!