BACKGROUND In 2002-2003, a Needs, Gaps and Opportunities Assessment (NGOA) was conducted to investigate relationships between socio-economic dimensions of housing and health. Recent reviews of the literature point to a dearth of research on the socio-economic dimensions of housing and health, despite its potential for promoting health. METHODS The NGOA sought to identify research needs and ga...

Trends are one of the main determinants controlling, directing and regulating behavior, therefore any change requires first knowledge prevailing trends among individuals, their ability to modify transform towards desired change, as new contradict what there may be inherent well-established in souls, often. What leads disintegration turmoil impedes occurrence we aiming at terms development progr...

This paper reports the findings of a literature review of the health, social care and housing needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) adults undertaken in 2006 for the Welsh Assembly Government. Peer-reviewed literature was identified through database searches of BNI, PubMed, CINAHL, DARE, ASSIA and PsychInfo. Follow-up searches were conducted using references to key papers...

Introduction: The need for housing adapted to the needs of elderly people will increase during the forthcoming years due to the increase of the proportion of elderly people from 2020 and onwards. This need cannot be resolved by means of a single limited initiative. Description of situation: Most elderly people live in houses, farms and apartments which have to be adapted to disabilities. There ...

Integrated processes for design and fabrication have guided mass customization of architectural systems components. Providing affordable accessible housing, a vital segment the building industry, is multifaceted process that witnessed various manifestations towards individualization over past few decades. Design flexibility in housing becoming crucial aspect, informed by consumers’ lifestyles, ...

Two separate apps that address the increasingly important issue of accessible housing for senior citizens have been developed in different project settings. One of the apps was developed to facilitate the process for professional raters to assess housing accessibility in the context of individual housing adaptations. The other app was developed for senior citizens to raise their awareness of po...

PURPOSE This article profiles the housing settings of frail elderly individuals, whether their homes are facilitating or impeding their ability to live in the community, and the change in disability and housing status before and after passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. DESIGN AND METHODS The analysis relies primarily on statistical analysis of the 1995 national American Hous...