Download or read book Housing Adaptations for Disabled People written by Terence Lockhart and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Staying Put written by Susan Lanspery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. Ninety-nine percent of the housing that will be in use in the year 2000 exists today. The long-needed anthology "Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People" emphasizes the disabilities and abilities of environments instead of individuals. With contributions from leading authorities, it integrates a wide range of theoretical and practical ideas about housing adaptation for researchers, students, consumers, policymakers, and practitioners in human services and the building trades.

Download or read book Aging in Place written by Ellen D Taira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provide a comfortable living environment for the aging! Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As a therapist, designer, architect, builder, home planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, Aging in Place will show you innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them state-of-the-art designs that encourage independence and dignity. This unique and exciting book covers topics such as universal design which strives to create everyday environments and products like door handles and light switches that are usable by all people to the greatest extent possible, regardless of age or ability. Aging in Place will also show you how to: use follow-up visits by occupational therapists to ensure successful use of home modifications create environments that are helpful for vision rehabilitation by using controlled lighting and color schemes evaluate the quality of life for elderly people living in personal dwellings, specialized housing, and nursing homes explore architectural barriers and the uses of helping devices for elderly people examine research critiques of adaptive toilet equipment investigate modifications that have been made in homes for the elderly in India analyze ways in which elderly people have changed their homes to make the telephone more accessible Aging in Place is a complete guide to understanding the needs and latest trends in optimizing the living space of elderly persons. The book gives you access to several studies on elderly people's environmental needs and preferences in regard to modifications in personal and public dwellings. This information will assist you with better serving the elderly by helping them live more independently.

Download or read book Housing and Home Services for the Disabled written by Gini Laurie and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Resource Guide on Accessible Environments for the Disabled written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Residential Design for Aging In Place written by Drue Lawlor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consult Residential Design for Aging In Place, the key reference for designing homes for aging people, if you seek to understand how to create effective spaces for the elderly. Interior designers, architects, and homebuilders are increasingly asked by clients to design homes to allow for adaptation over time, and this is the definitive guide, endorsed by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Find case study examples of good design solutions for designing for aging in place from two authors who are highly respected fellows of the ASID.

Download or read book The Built Environment for the Elderly and the Handicapped written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book House Adaptations for People with Physical Disabilities written by Rosemary Statham and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text describes 22 case histories by which existing housing was adapted to the needs of people with a variety of physical disabilities.

Download or read book The Built Environment for the Elderly and the Handicapped written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library Division and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Designing for Special Needs written by Maurice Harker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new handbook brings together for the first time everything the architect and client needs to know to design buildings for people with learning disabilities. The unique and sometimes challenging requirements of this group has demanded new multidisciplinary research resulting in a set of design principles based on facts. A series of case studies and lessons for good design is complemented by chapters explaining: what learning disabilities are; what housing and support options are currently available; the importance of a design brief that properly recognises individual differences and needs; and current standards (including the new National Minimum Standards) and emerging technologies. Researched and written by specialists in social housing provision and funded by The Shirley Foundation, this unique design guide is set to become the standard reference tool for anyone building for people with learning disabilities.

Download or read book Designing for the Disabled The New Paradigm written by Selwyn Goldsmith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm. Goldsmith's new paradigm is based on the concept of architectural disability. As a version of the social model of disability, it is not exclusively the property of physically disabled people. Others who are afflicted by it include women, since men customarily get proportionately four times as many amenities in public toilets as women - and women have to queue where men do not - and those with infants in pushchairs, because normal WC facilities are invariably too small to get a pushchair and infant into. To counter architectural disability, Goldsmith's line is that the axiom for legislation action has to be 'access for everyone' - it should not just be 'access for the disabled', as it presently is with the Part M building regulation and relevant provisions of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act. In a 40-page annex to his book he sets out the terms that a new-style Part M regulation and its Approved Document might take, one that would cover alterations to existing buildings as well as new buildings. But architects and building control officers need not, he says, wait for new a legislation to apply new practical procedures to meet the requirements of the current Part M regulation; they can, as he advises, act positively now. This is a book which will oblige architects to rethink the methodology of designing for the disabled. It is a book that no practising architect, building control officer, local planning officer or access officer can afford to be without.

Download or read book Housing for Elderly People written by Martin Valins and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Accessible Housing Design File written by Barrier Free Environments, inc and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture The Accessible Housing Design File Barrier Free Environments, Inc. "... an invaluable resource to everyone involved with the design, construction, and management of housing for older and disabled individuals. The amount of information on each topics is the most extensive I have ever seen...." -Elaine Ostroff, Adaptive Environments Center Boston, Massachusetts New legislation on accessibility has made it tough for designers and builders to create environments that are both aesthetically pleasing and accommodate people with disabilities The Accessible Housing Design File helps you comply with the latest accessibility standards and keep up with the increasing demand for more universal housing. Responding to the accessibility standards established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA), this guide covers the special design and construction considerations of environments for people with mobility impairments. It also contains some design solutions to access problems for people with visual and hearing impairments. Both interior and exterior environments are addressed in chapters that take you from site planning through selection of door hardware. Site designs, room layouts, floor plans, jargon-free explanations, and 300 detailed illustrations convey whole settings and provide you with fully dimensioned solutions to tough design problems. These design solutions will help you to create new housing as well as renovate existing single- and multi-family residences to increase accessibility. The Accessible Housing Design File emphasizes both universally usable and marketable environments that have excellent resale value. It covers the full gamut of accessible design and construction options for: Vehicular transportation and parking-Accessible vans, carports, and garages Site design and entrances-House placement, sloping sites, walks, crossings, bridges, lifts, ramps, and handrails Doors and doorways-Handles, locks, power openers, hallways, floor space, screen and storm doors, door widening, and door swings Windows-Forward reach and side reach windows, power operators, and windows as exits Kitchens-Knee and turnaround space, adjustable-height cabinets and counters, appliance siting, and control and handle placement Bathrooms-Grab bars, hydraulic seats, portable boom lifts, overhead track lifts, removable tub seats, tub controls, transfer and roll-in showers, and lavatory design Bedrooms-Maneuvering space and clearances, transfers at beds, lifts, communications and control systems, emergency exits, and equipment storage As the percentage of elderly in our population increases and the civil rights of America's 43 million disabled citizens become better recognized, the need to create versatile environments that meet the needs of all potential users will continue to grow. This guide helps meet that need, making it essential reading for professional housing designers, specialists in aging and rehabilitation, and others involved in the design, manufacture, and construction of housing.

Download or read book Design for Aging written by Aia Task Force on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fair Housing Act Design Manual written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Housing and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HOUSING ADAPTIONS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE HOW TO ADAPT THE HOME TO THE NEEDS OF HANDICAPPED ELDERLY OR INFIRM OCCUPANTS A GUIDE FOR ARCHITECTS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AND HOUSEHOLDERS written by TERENCE LOCKHART and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility written by Steven Winter Associates, Inc. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-07-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide that takes the guesswork out of Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines conformance The Federal government is stepping up its enforcement of the Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines, and failure to comply with these guidelines can result in a complaint for discriminatory housing practice. A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility enables building professionals to avoid these charges with clear, concise interpretations of the Guidelines and descriptive illustrations of proper conformance. Inspired by the author's HUD-sponsored review of nearly 400 built projects, this compact yet comprehensive guide reviews the guidelines for conformance with the seven basic design and construction requirements of the Fair Housing Amendments Act, from accessible building entrances to usable kitchens, and points out common conformance errors made by architects, builders, and developers. This practical, easy-to-follow handbook: * Demystifies accessibility guidelines and reduces the risk of litigation * Explains which buildings and units are covered by the law * Provides a compliance checklist for multifamily housing design and construction Featuring only the facts and technical guidance needed to help ensure conformance with the Guidelines, A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility is an indispensable resource for architects, builders, contractors, site engineers, and developers who need to know that their work is in conformance with Federal guidelines.