Dark Halls and At-Risk Husbands

We have this light fixture.  It's in our stairway--or above it rather.  This house is configured so that light fixture is also the main light for the upstairs hallway too.   There is almost no natural light in that area so the hall/stair light stays on a lot.  We've only lived here 11 months so myhusband has only had to change it once (after we clamored around in the dark for a week or two).   This particular fixture could not be positioned in a more precarious spot in the center of the ceiling of the stairway. Read: no place to position a ladder. Hard,twisty wooden stairs.  Sharp, wooden banisters.  Cold, hard marble floor below.

When my husband finally changed the light bulbs last time, it involved 3 or 4 support personnel, a bendy ladder positioned and resting like no ladder was meant, death defying balancing and reaching, and definitely prayer and very little breathing.  When the deed was done, he wiped the sweat from his handsome brow and said to me through gritted teeth, "I don't want to do that again."

There are a few reasons why this house was deemed temporary when we rented it, none of which were that fixture...at the time.  But.... that fixture is fading again.  And I am on the hunt...for a house...if nothing else but to spare my husband's life.