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Life Care Planning Resources
Published in Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens, Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, 2018
The website includes access to the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine; Clinical Guidelines and Consumer Guides; Adaptive Sports Resources; Accessibility and Mobility; Accessible Housing Resources; Caregivers; Employment Resources for Veterans and All with Disabilities; General Medical Resources; Multiple Sclerosis; Spinal Cord Injury; Spina Bifida; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Government Sites and Veterans Online Resources; and Directory of Chapters and NSO (National Service Officers) per state. Membership to the Paralyzed Veterans of America is free and open to qualified individuals.
Independent Living Centers: A Parallel Resource
Published in Raymond V. Smith, John H. Leslie, Rehabilitation Engineering, 2018
The second task is to create new options. If individuals cannot live in the community without accessible housing or transportation, then it becomes the job of the ILC to create these and other accessible options. The concept does not require the ILC to develop such services, but for them to advocate or help the community to develop these options.
An Occupational Therapy Experience in Ecuador
Published in Susan Cook Merrill, Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries, 2012
The program was housed in a building called House of Love, Peace and Friendship, or Casa APA in Spanish, and contained two six-bed dormitories for men and women, a kitchen, dining room, two bathrooms and two large activity rooms. We were told that Casa APA had been designed as accessible housing. Although doorways were plenty wide we found that the shower stalls had four inch rims and regular showerheads, and there were cabinets with doors under the kitchen counter, among other things. We made recommendations to the director and the head of maintenance for changes as funds were available. They appreciated our input since they had not much experience with individuals with disabilities.
Moving into new housing designed for people with disability: preliminary evaluation of outcomes
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023
Jacinta Douglas, Dianne Winkler, Stacey Oliver, Stephanie Liddicoat, Kate D’Cruz
Affordable and accessible housing is foundational to social and economic participation and maximising the independence of people with disability. Traditionally, government funded housing for people with disability has tended to be separate from the community and congregated with other people with disability [6]. Findings of this study support the premise [4] that moving away from housing that is congregated and segregated to individualised housing and living arrangements can result in better outcomes for people with disability. In Australia, SDA policy and payments within the NDIS were designed to create a market of housing for people with disability that maximises the independence of tenants and improves the efficiency of support delivery. The current results provide preliminary evidence regarding the potential of contemporary housing in meeting the aims of SDA policy by improving the lives of tenants and maximising independence. Results also have international implications, as an increasing number of jurisdictions dedicate specific funds to specialist disability housing [25].
Lost in Transition: Entering the Liminal Space of Rural Homelessness in a Small Prairie Town
Published in Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 2021
Rather than viewing homelessness as a binary issue, an incremental perspective should be emphasized that stresses impact of gradual transitions while still housed in rural settings. Strategies worth exploring to help people avoid the liminal space of housing risk might include providing resources to address landlord/tenant conflicts, creating and enforcing bylaws governing the sufficiency of rental accommodations, and fostering social programs that help individuals and families meet their basic needs. Better policies are needed also to foster successful post-deinstitutionalization social reentry (Freudenberg et al., 2008). Finally, accessible housing is needed in rural communities, and investing in appropriate housing will curb pathways to homelessness, particularly for older people (McDonald et al., 2009).
Housing accessibility for senior citizens in Sweden: Estimation of the effects of targeted elimination of environmental barriers
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2018
Cecilia Pettersson, Björn Slaug, Marianne Granbom, Marianne Kylberg, Susanne Iwarsson
According to Ahrentzen & Tural [4], architects, housing providers and policy makers need valid and reliable information on which to construct their plans and policies. Considering the present situation in many countries, society could not possibly meet the housing needs of the growing ageing population with individual housing adaptation or special housing. The building sector could gain from increased collaboration with professionals such as occupational therapists, making use of their specific knowledge of person-environment fit when planning for new housing and renovations. For example, the high occurrence of thresholds between rooms and the lack of grab bars in hygiene areas even in newer dwellings noted in this study are problems that could be avoided. This kind of insight is far from new (see e.g. [54]), but as demonstrated by the result of the present study the progress towards more accessible housing is slow. Our results could be used to reinforce the argumentation that data based on housing adaptations have a potential to inform housing design at the population level. Moreover, the present study provides evidence for more progressive political action regarding housing provision that meets the needs of the ageing population. Efforts in the building industry and public agencies should target ways to enhance active and healthy ageing, as argued in previous research [4,30,50]. To meet the needs of accessible housing every effort to rebuild and upgrade the existing ordinary housing stock must be based on the best possible knowledge, calling for more research in this area [29].