Make Your Home Wheelchair Accessible: Tips and Articles
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Wheelchair accessible construction and other accessibility design issues; tips and ideas for homeowners who want to enjoy their homes longer. Real-Estate-Agents.com
- Adapting a Home for Easy Living
- Most homes today are designed for young adults and don't have the features and conveniences to make them appropriate and safe for seniors...
- Checklist: Design for Accessibility
- Designing the interior of a home is critical for accessibility, especially the kitchen and bath areas. Wheelchair accessibility issues should be emphasized ...
- Disability Elevators & Ramps
- Elevators and well-constructed and maintained ramps allow for independent use by persons who use wheelchairs or scooters, and by others who cannot use stairs...
- Home Accessibility for Those With Disabilities
- In remodeling a home, it is important to consider the needs of anyone in the household who may be disabled. Designing for accessibility can make it much easier to carry out routine activities...
- Public Disability Ramps
- The Americans with Disabilities Act requires public accommodations to be equal with accommodations for the rest of the general public...
- Remodel for Accessibility
- Here are some common retrofitting projects to make areas accessible to people with difficulty walking or in wheelchairs...
- Remodeling with Seniors in Mind
- Our houses are full of steps: steps up to the front door, steps down to the basement, steps up to the bedrooms, steps everywhere...
- Safe Living for Seniors
- Questions and Answers
- Senior-Friendly Remodeling
- ...today we have a huge array of housing that is not well designed for large segments of the population. Seniors and children are the least well served by current housing...
- Universal Design
- ...general principles to guide us toward designs that better meet the needs of a broader segment of society. The emerging new standards are guided by principles called "Universal Design."...
- Wheelchair Access Ramps
- These ramp codes can help answer and clarify questions about wheelchair access ramps...
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