“Unleashing Your Hidden Powers to Enhance Your Home Safety,” presented by PCV, and featuring nationally-recognized aging-in-place expert Louis Tenenbaum.  With more than 75% of seniors desiring to stay in their homes as they age (AARP, 2021 Home and  Community Preference Survey), rates for retirement homes continue to be unaffordable for many, topping $71,000 annually for assisted living, $156,000 annually for a nursing home (Genworh Financial 2021 Cost of Care Survey) in the DC metro area.  

Mr. Tenenbaum will share his expertise on home modifications that make seniors safer as they age and will speak about proposed federal legislation that makes it easier for seniors to pay for these needed changes to our homes, and on already existing state and county programs that offer tax credits for these changes. Mr. Tenenbaum will also guide listeners in how to implement these home modifications in a cost-efficient, smart, and effective way.

Though the cost of making these changes can sometimes be prohibitive, their value is the significant potential of reducing the likelihood of falls, which are well-known as a reason why seniors often need to move to far more costly assisted-living facilities or nursing homes.  

PCV's goal in presenting this April 28 Zoom event is threefold:

• to encourage everyone in our community to plan for, and to implement, home safety modifications;
• to  encourage the use of the state and county programs that offer tax credits for these safety modifications;
• and to inform the community about these county and state programs as well as the proposed federal legislation that would enable tax credits for these home safety modifications. 

Mr. Tenenbaum is the founder of HomesRenewed (www.HomesRenewed.org), a coalition of businesses, consumers and nonprofits working together to increase the number of age-friendly homes. He was named a Next Avenue “Influencer in Aging” in 2016, and is currently working with members of Congress to pass legislation that offers a refundable, lifetime tax credit to cover 100 percent of the costs of aging-in-place modifications up to $30,000.