• Adaptive Access Company - This company provides a comprehensive range of accessible solutions to homes and businesses and offers accessible home remodeling and modifications in Houston Texas and the surrounding areas .
• An Analysis of the Effects of Ramp Slope on People with Mobility Impairments - A study conducted by The Center of Universal Design in North Carolina State University shows the effect of different ramp slope on people with disabilities, from background, methodology, to implications.
  
• Caregivers' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Home Modifications for Community Living Adults with Dementia - Read about the study of the effectiveness of various modifications made mostly by caregivers to increase the safety or autonomy of persons with dementia.
• Checklist for Stairways, Especially for Homes - A general guideline and practical checklist for safe stairway building.
  
• A Consumers Guide to Home Adaptation
• Consumer Knowledge of Home Modifications - Covers the various strategies to educate consumers on knowledge about home modifications and increase their awareness and receptivity to home modifications.
• The Do-Able Renewable Home - This comprehensive booklet for consumers provides information you will need to make your home more livable, and overcome problems that might occur with age (limitations on movement, strength, dexterity, hearing, or eyesight).
• Enabler - This site offers a different concept and method to assessing accessibility of the living environment.
• Evan Terry Associates - The Company provides extensive programs and information in compliance with ADA, including ADA Design Assistant software, an interactive U.S. map of dealer listings across the nation, ADA training materials and publications. In addition, the company also features several architectural projects.
• Factors Predicting Assistive Device Use in the Home by Older People Following Rehabilitation - Focuses on how to better take care of individuals during the first 3 months home after rehabilitation. Visit this site and read about the factors that predict home use of assistive devices.
• Frail Elders and The Suburbs - Do you have or know elder relatives living in single-family homes in the suburbs? Read about why and how elders grow frail in the suburbs and strategies that address this problem.
  
• Gerontologic Environmental Modifications - This division of Geriatrics and Gerontology in the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center offers a comprehensive environmental assessment list through each room of the home, from accessibility to furnitures and flooring.
• Homes That Help: Advice From Caregivers For Creating A Supportive Home - Read these helpful tips from experienced caregivers on how to better equip or alter the home environment to increase safety and accessibility.
• Housing Highlights: Home Modification and Repair - This convenient checklist provides an overall assessment of your home -- a vital first step to home modification.
• How Well Does Your Home Meet Your Needs? - This convenient checklist provides an overall assessment of your home, and other useful tips on improving the safety of your living environment.
• Improving the Delivery of Home Modifications - This site provides insightful discussion that addresses the problem of supply and demand for home modifications services, the barriers to developing an effective system of delivery, and recommendations to possible solutions.
• Matching Person and Technology - Through research, assessment, training, and consultation, this institute helps enhance the experience of technology users and match users with the most appropriate devices.
• National Kitchen and Bath Association - provides summaries of the universal kitchen and bath planning checklists.
• The National Directory of Home Modification and Repair Programs - This helpful directory provides information to aging network, services, and housing providers, and consumers about programs that modify and repair homes for elder people.
• ParentsPlace.com - Includes bathroom safety checklist.
  
• Safety for Older Consumers: Home Safety Checklist - These strategies target to increase the incidence of home modification and repair, including more widespread and systematic home assessment, increased public awareness about the role of environment, and the creation of more affordable programs.
• Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan Guide for the ADA - This comprehensive list offers assessment and recommendation on various areas of a home to promote and ensure a safer living environment.
• Smart Housing - This British website introduces the various features of smart housing, which uses either pre-programmed or operative systems to integrate many automated home systems to help elderly people remain independent in their homes longer. The site also offers technology guides, articles relating to the safety features of smart homes, and many links to related field on accessible and safe home.
• Strategies for Home Modification and Repair - This collaborative effort by the state of Minnesota Rehabilitation Services Independent Living Section provides design information and complete instructions on building various types of ramps to promote home accessibility.
• Systems, Change, Coalition, Building and Collaboration - The various approach to help older adults and the disabled to stay in their homes longer by expanding the limits of standard housing.
• Universal Design: Creative Solutions for ADA Compliance - Read about the creative interior designs that support activities of daily living and enable people of all ages and abilities to remain at home rather than moving to a facility.
• Using Technology to Adapt Environments - "When older adults' capabilities don't match the demands of the environment, perhaps the environment needs to be changed to adapt to environments." Read about how technology can enhance the functional level of people with disabilities.
• Why Older People Accept or Reject Assistive Technology - This article will help better understand the suitable approach to older adults on assistive technology.

 

 

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