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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6244624" data-attributes="member: 6669384">We have homeowner's insurance.  It's kind of required.  But with medical care costing what it does today, I still couldn't afford the risk.  We're playing in the garage, technically an "infinished" area, not intended for occupancy.  I'm afraid that my insurance would deny the claim because of that.Oddly, the way legal circles work, any precaution I take to minimize the risk is taken as an admission of liability, proof that I knew the risk was there.  If I had her sign a waiver, all it would do would be to prove that I was subjecting her to a known risk.  It wouldn't protect me at all.As for the chance of her falling:  It's already happened.  We were helping her up the stairs into the house and her knee gave out.  She ended up sitting on the stairs, having had a safe landing specifically because we were helping her up, and we ended up helping her down.  If two people hadn't been there at that moment... I don't like to think about it.She lives in an assisted living facility, and one thought I had was to tell her that I needed a statement from her physical therapist that she's okay to get around without a walker or assistance.  Sadly I know that that approval will never come.  Her mobility has been steadily deteriorating, and the auto accident was the topper.  As for moving the game:  First, I'm the only one of our group who has anything like appropriate space. (Listing a garage as "like" appropriate space is probably as good a description as any.)  Second, all we'd be doing is shifting my risk to someone else.  I wish I was rich enough to afford a dedicated game space that could accommodate partially disabled players, but I'm not.  Short of a surprise lottery win, it's not going to happen.(And it would be a real surprise, since I don't buy tickets. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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