Making sure your stairs are safe, adding lighting where there isn't lighting, decluttering your hallways.

They're just smart ideas, and they're honestly, they're ones that we should all be thinking about.

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette. I'm Kyra Blackwell, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Kyra, can I ask you a very personal question?

It's just you and I in this microphone. I always wait until

it's just you and me to get really personal with you. No, this is a deep one. I want to know,

do you think about getting old and what that's going to look like for you? Frankly, no. I feel

like I'm pretty far from that, but sometimes I do worry about my parents and what I'm going to do

in that situation. Yeah, that's a good point. I think about that. I'm also technically midway through, if I get to 100, close to that.

So I am starting to think about that a little bit more, you know, like what does it look like to get old and where do I want to get old?

And this is something we've been thinking a lot about at

Wirecutter recently because we just finished this big group of articles that we just published

all about aging in place. And if you're not familiar with that term, it basically just means

growing old in your home, not going to a facility, being able to live your life where you want to, essentially.

And so we published this great piece that is written by Doug Mahoney, our star guest, who has come on the show before to talk about home renovation.

And he wrote a piece that takes you through a home, room by room, and really explains what you should think about if you are

considering aging in place for yourself or if you are helping a loved one kind of figure out how

they need to retrofit their home. And so we're going to talk to him about that today.

It seems like such a helpful thing because it can become so overwhelming and for Doug

to be able to just kind of walk you through all the things you might need to think about or consider

and give you an itemized list. It seems like it's great service journalism. Yeah, it really is. He talked to

a ton of experts for this, people who do assessments of people's homes and who work with a lot of older

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