While falls can occur anywhere, they can be much more devastating climbing down stairs in colonial houses. Won't it be good idea for older parents to not live houses such as my colonial house? But my brother-in-law with a bedroom and full bath and kitchen on main level built for his 81-year old mother insists that she stay in our house for 4 months. I am praying every day that she does not fall coming down from her bedroom unsupervised. Am I unnecessarily worried?