Download free publications on topics such as safe driving, home design and navigating life's key transitions. The Hartford’s gerontology team specializes in insights for mature market customers and developed these guides especially for people age 50 and older.
Life Event Transition Guides
Living With Loss
A Guide for the Newly Widowed
This guidebook offers valuable information to help you navigate the loss of a spouse.
This guidebook describes the benefits of having a comprehensive driving evaluation from an occupational therapist with specialized driver evaluation training.
This guidebook gives families easy-to-use, practical information to help them plan ahead and initiate productive and caring conversations with older adults about driving safely.
A Smart Way to Prevent, Detect and Escape Home Fires
Fire safety is not a one-time project. You must continually be on guard against the fire hazards in your home. This valuable booklet can help you and your family prevent, detect and escape home fires.
Natural disasters don't happen every day, but repercussions can be severe. Having a disaster plan can help prevent loss of life and reduce property damage, lessen stress around recovery and rebuilding, and decrease time it takes to get your life back in order.
This guide offers homeowners tips and information about staying on top of home maintenance tasks, working with service providers, and which smart home technologies to consider.
Home Design and Planning for the Lifestyle You Want
This guidebook encourages you to think about the next step in your lifestyle and how to ensure that your home will fit you, and provides information to help you think through the options and talk with people who are important to you about these decisions.
Family Conversations About Disaster Planning, Caregiving, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
This publication helps caregivers better prepare for natural disasters by planning with family, friends and others. It includes worksheets, checklists and helpful resources.
This guide describes the steps to take when preparing for a wildfire, including what to do before a wildfire happens, what to consider when evacuating, and tips on re-entry and recovery after a wildfire.