Independence Isn't Lost All at Once. It's Drained.
Losing independence is almost never one dramatic event. It's drained daily, by a thousand small frictions in a house that no longer fits the person living in it.
Gerontologists have a name for this. Lawton and Nahemow's Competence-Press model (1973) describes the balance between a person's abilities and the "press" their environment puts on them. When the home's demands outpace what a person can do today, safety quietly erodes and injury follows. Most homes were built for young, fully able bodies, and the house stays rigid even as the body changes: shadows over a counter raise the odds of a cut, a deep tub demands balance that isn't there, a stiff door pulls someone off their center of gravity.
You don't have to leave your home to fix this. You lower the "press" of the home you already have: shadowless task lighting where work happens, low-strain hardware that meets the hand, and level transitions that match how a body moves now.
That's the whole idea behind Rockwell, matching the environment to the person instead of asking the person to keep compensating. It starts with the $150 Home Safety & Readiness Audit, where we map every friction point, and continues with the modifications and ongoing stewardship that keep capability and home in balance.