Ward 4, Washington, DC
In Shepherd Park the door your parent really uses is the one by the driveway, so the walk starts at the side steps, not the front walk.
You reach us directly. Your number is never sold.
On these quiet streets near the Maryland line, plenty of owners raised their families in the house they live in now and would like to grow old in the same rooms.
The houses are detached, with driveways, so the daily trip in and out rarely uses the front door. It goes up a side stoop by the car, usually past a storm door swinging into the way.
Most of the danger here sits low and close to the ground.
Rails on both sides of the driveway steps, a wider landing where the storm door swings and a lever handle. A driveway often gives a ramp room to run, and cost guides place ramps from $1,000 to $10,000.
Wheelchair ramp installation in Shepherd ParkOlder baths here usually set the tub between three walls, with no bar and a slick floor. Bars, a handheld shower and a valve that caps water temperature typically come to $500 to $3,000 as a package.
Grab bar installation and bath safety in Shepherd ParkMotion lights at the side steps cover the trips after sunset.
Lighting in Shepherd ParkSome North Portal Estates houses are built close to one level. Where a bedroom and bath already sit on the entry floor, the work is mostly widening a door or two and clearing the route between them.
First-Floor Living in Shepherd ParkRamps, rebuilt steps and bathroom plumbing in Shepherd Park need permits from the DC Department of Buildings (DOB), even with the Maryland line a short walk away.
DC Safe at Home, offered through the DC Department of Aging and Community Living, helps older District homeowners who meet its income limits. Check what the program covers today before you plan around it.
For Shepherd Park, see DC Department of Aging and Community Living, Safe at Home and Permitting in the District.
Shepherd Park sits at the northern tip of DC, where 16th Street Northwest and Georgia Avenue Northwest cross into Maryland at Eastern Avenue.
Colonial Village and North Portal Estates run along 16th Street beside Rock Creek Park. Alaska Avenue Northwest passes the former Walter Reed campus, and the Silver Spring Metro station is the closest stop, just over the border.
It is. Shepherd Park lies about 6.5 miles from the US Capitol, and our area keeps going past Eastern Avenue into Montgomery County.
It doesn't. An address inside the District falls under DC rules and the DC permit office, and your written scope lists which items need a permit.
Shepherd Park lies north of the US Capitol.
See the Shepherd Park house the way your parent walks it, side door first, with every fix in order on paper.