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You Hear It All The Time...“I Don’t Want To Be A Burden.”
Written by Paul C Bastante, CAPS, for The Agewise Institute & Sponsored by 101 Mobility North Jersey It is the Quietest — And Most Heartbreaking — Sentence We Hear from seniors: “The hardest words many older adults never say out loud are: ‘I don’t want to be a burden.’” If you work in aging-in-place, healthcare, caregiving, or if you simply love someone getting older, you’ve heard this sentence before. Maybe not word-for-word. But you’ve heard it. You hear it when someone sto
Paul Bastante
May 253 min read


Can You Really Save 15% With a Used Ramp—And Is It Just as Good?
Can you really save 15% with a used wheelchair ramp—and is it just as safe as new? Here’s what families and clinicians need to know about cost, durability, and smart aging in place decisions.
Paul Bastante
Apr 53 min read


Short-Term Ramp Rental vs. Buying: What’s the Right Move for Your Situation?
Written by Paul C. Bastante , CAPS – Certified Aging in Place Specialist for “ The Agewise Institute ” and brought to you by 101 Mobility North Jersey . Short-Term Ramp Rental vs. Buying: What’s the Right Move for Your Situation? There’s a moment that happens for a lot of families. Someone comes home from the hospital. Maybe it was a surgery. Maybe it was a fall. Maybe it’s something more long-term. But suddenly, the steps that were never a problem… are now the biggest ob
Paul Bastante
Mar 303 min read


Super Agers: What They’re Doing Differently—and What Aging in Place Can Learn From Them.
Written by Paul C. Bastante, CAPS , for The AGEWISE Institute. Proudly sponsored by 101 Mobility North Jersey , OPM Remodeling & My Jersey Handyman Super Agers: What They’re Doing Differently—and What we Can Learn from Them! Aging in place. Certified Aging in Place principles. Home safety. Rehabilitation. These are the daily vocabulary words for clinicians and families navigating later life. But in recent years, another term has entered the conversation—one that sparks c
Paul Bastante
Dec 15, 20254 min read
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