Making a choice – A future in Care or…

A Future at Home

Future-proofing your house, and yourself, for your later years doesn’t have to be complicated. Making informed choices and installing the right technology now will ensure that when the time comes, you can choose between a future in care – or A Future at Home.

Starting your ‘Ageing in Place’ journey

Welcome to A Future at Home (AFAH), a place to learn about, and plan for, ageing. Specifically, we want to help you learn how to make adaptations now to help keep you or a loved one in your own home for as long as possible.

Under the AFAH umbrella, we bring together expert advice along with links to organisations and services that can help with two main issues:

  • Future-proofing our houses so we can grow old in them – ageing in place
  • Introducing technology (AgeTech) to improve our lives.

Watch our introductory video, browse the links at the top of the site to learn more about us, and complete the AFAH Survey.

Charitable Plan

Ten percent of all profits will go a fund to help people who need help in adapting their homes. As we grow, we plan to raise this amount, with a goal of 80% of profits being donated.

Please note

AFAH gets a small commission from many, but not all, of the products and services. Our philosophy is to find the best options for you and then ask to partner with those companies. If a product doesn’t pay, but we like it, we will include it. If a partner pays, but we don’t like the product, we won’t put it on the site. Click here to see our policies.

What will the AFAH site give me?

Here are some of the things we can help with as you start your journey to future-proofing yourself and your home:

  • Useful advice on talking to older adults about ageing and ‘Ageing in Place’.
  • Learning resources on hot topics about ageing.
  • Help to adapt the family home to keep your loved ones happy, safe, and comfortable.
  • A directory of national products and services to help with future-proofing your home.
  • Objective advice on alternatives to ageing at home, from retirement living to care homes.
  • Ideas on lifestyle future-proofing to ensure you and your loved ones stay fit, healthy, and active as you age.
  • Detailed and bespoke guidance to support your own or your loved ones’ specific circumstances and a forum for discussion, debate, and support to find and connect with people facing similar ageing journeys.
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Smart Tech

AFAH – Room by Room

Start your Journey by visiting our main page which will show you what you can do to adapt each room in the house, and change the activities you associate with each space. You’ll find all the help you needs.

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I want to support my parents, and help keep them out of care.

My parents or grandparents are beginning to struggle with issues of mobility, cognitive decline and emotional stress. I would like to help them enjoy many more comfortable, safe and happy years in their own home.

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I want to adapt my home for Ageing-in-place

Now I’m in my 70s and 80s, I want to stay in the family home for as long as possible. I want to know what I can do to adapt the house, use new technology, and stay fit and healthy for the coming years. What will our future selves thank us for doing now?

I am planning for retirement and want a healthy later life.

In my 50s and 60s I’m looking forward to a long retirement. What should I be doing to make sure I stay fit, healthy, happy and secure? Mostly, I want to understand what my older self would want me to do right now to keep me happy and out of care in 30+ years’ time.

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I want to buy my older relatives (and maybe me!) useful gifts

I want a low-key way to support my parents and grandparents in their own homes. I always struggle to buy gifts for them so I am looking for something different this year, preferably something useful that will also help them stay fit, healthy and happy.

“I am really impressed with the suggestions and ideas, and how thorough and detailed it all was.” 

Mary, 71, Oxfordshire.

“I felt it was a very caring, honest, well-informed report. I was surprised at the detail and the variety.” 
Judi, 54, Warwickshire.
“They have obviously done a serious amount of research on this and it gets a thumbs up from me.”
Ed, 57, Oxfordshire

A Future at Home Blog

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The Future at Home Survey

Our survey will help you in adapting your home, and your life, to ensure you can stay in your home for as long as possible.

  • Full of resource ideas

  • Reliable advice and practical tips

  • Products and services tailored to your specific needs

  • Ideas to help us all be more social, or to keep a sense of purpose

  • Complete one for each resident

“I felt it was a very caring, honest, well-informed report. I was surprised at the detail and the variety.” 
Judi, 54, Warwickshire.

“I am really impressed with the suggestions and ideas, and how thorough and detailed it all was.” 

Mary, 71, Oxfordshire.

“They have obviously done a serious amount of research on this and it gets a thumbs up from me.”
Ed, 57, Oxfordshire