Information tagged with: visitability

An aging population will benefit from new ways of building that allow us to age in our homes. Visitability is: one zero-step entrance with a wider entrance door (36"), wider interior halls and doors (32"), and a bathroom, all on one floor, meaning anyone can visit your home without fear or embarrassment (or you visit them). Rather than become isolated by limitations in ones mobility, one still gets around. It's the environment that's disabled, not the people. Recorded March 2009.

"After a spinal cord injury, where we go and who we visit become more limited. Since my injury in June 1998, I can no longer go to any of my neighbor’s homes and ring their doorbells. Even the two brand new homes a few doors down from me were built with concrete porches and steps that are barriers to me. I would have liked to have welcomed their owners to our neighborhood, but concrete barriers are hard to pass through when you are seated in a wheelchair."