Do you have stairs where you live?

My house is a tri level so even though I don't have a full flight of stairs I have three sets of stairs in the house, two with six steps and one with five steps, also two steps up from garage into house. It seems I go up and down steps everytime I move around in this place!

I've never fallen on the stairs but have stumbled a few times, the potential to fall is certainly there.
 
I have stairs in both houses.
The farm has steep stairs going to the second floor, one set of basement stairs is just as steep, the other set of basement stairs are a nice shallow angle.
The house in town has a nice slope going up, but the basement stairs are steep.
The only issue I have is the laundry is in the basement in town.
I need to build new stairs or move the laundry to the main floor.
To move the laundry would mean losing my office, so I'll have to think on it.
 
I have 14 stairs inside this house to get to the bedrooms... yes I've fallen down them a couple of times... 😩

at the Spanish house because it's 4 stories high, it has 37 steps.. to get from the ground floor to the top floor.. 5 from the terrace.. to the ground floor.. then 2 more sets of stairs ...to the bedrooms and the rooftop solarium

I feel it does keep me fitter than if I didn't have the stairs, but I have OA in my knees, and sometimes it can be agony to get up and down when I'm having a flare up... but otherwise I can negotiate them without any problems. If I'm having no pain with the OA I can still run up and down stairs at 70..
 
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I was a visiting nurse. Some of my patients had large two story homes. But they were living only on the first floor, since they couldn't climb the stairs to their bedrooms. I can't tell you how many had beds in the living room. That was decades ago, and when I got my home, I made sure it was all on one floor. Now, that I'm in a wheelchair, I'm glad I made that decision.
 
I live in an apartment building on the 4th floor. On the first floor there are stairs to get outside. I avoid these stairs by taking the elevator to the basement. Last week the elevator was out for a few hours. Get nervous when that happens. Feel helpless. I say to myself to practice stairs, from 4th to 5th or third, but I forget so never do. Going downstairs/upstairs very difficult.
 
Have lived decades in an early 1970s 2-story 903 sq-ft condo with bathroom and 2 bedrooms upstairs plus a carport. Walking this light fit 135# body up and down is trivial effort. Much too active and coordinated to ever likely to fall on stairs even though I often do so in near darkness. Sometimes to strengthen my body before a winter ski season or a summer wilderness backpacking trip, may for a few weeks a few times each week, carry a 50 pound pack up and down stairs say a dozen times.

Below from 2012 negotiating a steep talus field at near 11k elevation. Now at age 76 and still doing this easily each summer that comes down to something very simple ... USE IT OR LOSE IT.

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Only have stairs from front and back door to go outside. I hang on to the rails and step slowly. I would hate to fall on the concrete as that could be very bad to hit head or body bones.

I used to have stairs in apartments I lived in but was younger and could go up and down easily.
 
Yes we have 14 stars that lead to a walk out basement. It’s got a 9 foot ceiling. It has a large laundry room, a second bathroom, a cellar , a storage room and a big wood stove.
It has a pull out couch for when we have company. In 3 weeks we are having company. My sister and father in law are coming over for a week or so. We also have a blow up queen size bed, so plenty of space. I’m looking forward to having company.
 
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No stairs get plenty of exercise walking. Sold bi-level home when we retired. Plan was to use some of the money from the sale to move from the cold northeast to the sunny southwest. Included in the plan was buy a rancher for the very reason of the potential to fall climbing stairs. Plan completed 30 years ago, money left over & no mortgage.
 
Plenty of stairs in my home, going upstairs and downstairs. There are also stairs in my garage. I go slowly each time and hold on to the rails. Better to be safe than sorry. So far, I'm able to move up and down easily. I had a great fall from another house over 15 years ago, and since then, climb and descend stairs carefully. I consider stairs an opportunity to exercise my leg muscles. The only thing I don't like is carrying groceries up the stairs or carrying laundry down to the laundry room. It becomes a balancing act.
 
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Have lived decades in an early 1970s 2-story 903 sq-ft condo with bathroom and 2 bedrooms upstairs plus a carport. Walking this light fit 135# body up and down is trivial effort. Much too active and coordinated to ever likely to fall on stairs even though I often do so in near darkness. Sometimes to strengthen my body before a winter ski season or a summer wilderness backpacking trip, may for a few weeks a few times each week, carry a 50 pound pack up and down stairs say a dozen times.

Below from 2012 negotiating a steep talus field at near 11k elevation. Now at age 76 and still doing this easily each summer that comes down to something very simple ... USE IT OR LOSE IT.

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That is amazing!
 
One of the primary reasons we moved to this house is to be able to age in place, so no interior stairs, though there are stairs to the front and back door. But they could be easily ramped if needed at some future date, so no worries there.

All but one of my clients’ homes are two stories, so I typically do a few flights a day, even though two of them have elevators. Another lives in an exclusive condo development (doorman, gate codes etc) and her apartment is on the 3rd floor. I typically choose to use the stairs rather than wait for the elevator, just for the exercise.

Ron has a harder time with stairs than he used to since his accident. He Still uses them, just has to navigate them more slowly now.

Stairs are a great exercise opportunity.
 

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