Build a home where caring for someone you love is safe, close and sustainable — with dignity for them and support for the people doing the caring.
We’ve built dozens of ADUs for every application. This guide is our team’s compilation of thousands of hours of ADU design and building — everything we know about building for in-home care: how to plan it, design it, and build it right.
ADU built for in-home careIn the order a builder would walk you through it.
The alternatives, the honest limits of home care, and a calculator for the real monthly difference.
What the research says about isolation and health in later life, and how the design keeps family close.
Who to call, a checklist of questions to ask them, and a place to record what they need.
The path between the homes, the living core, the care bathroom, the care bedroom, and a place for the caregiver.
How much home the care requires, and the utility decisions that shape the budget.
Easy visitation, a caregiver’s route, and privacy you can dial up or down — with a decision helper.
Where money buys safety and where it doesn’t show.
All fourteen stages, and what decides when your loved one can move in.
Care-specific questions for builders, and financing paths including care funds.
One family’s move out of a nursing home, then your spec checklist and printable brief.
Equipment, transfers, bathing, access and safety — ticked off as you get answers.
Who it’s for, who provides care, what the care requires, and what your care provider told you.
A grandfather living in a nursing home at about $8,000 a month moved into a 650 SF care-ready ADU in his family’s backyard. Visits went up enormously — and the family still saves each month after the ADU payment.
Names and details are withheld for privacy. The full story is in the guide.
The guide covers this plainly, including the situations where an ADU is not the right setting — such as 24/7 skilled nursing or advanced dementia with wandering. When in doubt, it recommends talking to their physician or a geriatric care manager before you build.
No. It’s design and construction guidance from builders, written to be used alongside the advice of your loved one’s physician and care provider — and it shows you exactly what to ask them.
Age in place is about staying independent as needs gradually change. This guide is for care that’s needed now: room to assist, equipment, a caregiver’s space and route, and working with a care provider.
Right after checkout you get access to the guide in your web browser — on a computer, tablet or phone. Your answers in the calculators and worksheets save on your device as you go, and your brief prints or saves as a PDF.
If the guide doesn’t leave you with a clearer, more confident plan, reply to your guide email within 30 days for a full refund. You keep everything.
