Aging in Place Service Areas Around Knoxville, TN

Aging-in-place requests are matched by address, because the work is decided by the house: how wide the bathroom door is, whether the tub can come out, what is behind the wall for grab-bar blocking, and how much rise there is at the front door for a ramp. Every community on this list sits in Knox County or in one of the four counties that touch it - Blount to the south, Anderson to the north-west, Loudon to the south-west and Sevier to the east - and the stock splits two ways. Inside the City of Knoxville and the older unincorporated communities the housing is mill-era, Depression-era and post-war: a 28 to 30 inch bathroom door, a five-by-eight hall bath, a pier-and-beam crawlspace under the floor and a steep set of interior steps are all normal, and so is a hillside lot where the front door sits a real distance above the walk. Across West Knoxville, Bearden, Farragut, Powell, Karns and Halls the 1960s to 1980s ranch house and split-level is the base case - usually one level of living, 30 to 32 inch doors, and either a slab or a crawlspace - and out in Farragut, Maryville and Sevierville the newer subdivisions were built later, with wider openings and flatter entries. Two other things change what a contractor can do and when: the permitting authority is the City of Knoxville, the Town of Farragut, one of the smaller cities, or Knox County depending on the address, and in a condominium or a deed-restricted subdivision a second approval sits behind the permit. Tell us what is hard now - stepping into the tub, the doorway width, a fall that has happened, a veteran in the household, or the step at the door - and we route the request to licensed accessibility contractors whose crews already work your part of East Tennessee.