Adapting Housing for People With Disabilities

Since the publication of Disabled in Rehabilitated Housing by the former National Building Agency in 1978, the need for such conversion work has increased, with a subsequent demand placed on housing associations and local authorities. - - In order to meet this increasing demand, Building Performance Services Limited and the School of the Built Environment at Liverpool John Moores University, have revised and expanded the original document to help housing associations and local authorities to assess properties for conversion. Housing provision for physically disabled people should afford the same standard of comfort, choice and independence as it does for the able bodied. Ideally, disabled people should be able to continue living in their existing home. - - The book is divided into two parts. The first part of the book is aimed primarily at housing associations, providing design guidance for converting existing property. It will help in-house staff and non-specialist external advisers of general housing associations, as well as local authority social services and housing departments. - - The second part provides a way of assessing, by means of a survey sheet, if a disabled person?s current home is suitable for their needs. The survey sheet is developed for use by disabled people themselves, their families and non-specialist local authority advisers.