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FAQs
The Fall Prevention Center of Excellence answers these frequently asked questions about home modifications and products available to help seniors and persons with disabilities stay in their homes.
http://www.homemods.org/FAQ/index.shtml
Homemods.org
This website has resources for research, education and training, service delivery strategies, or for your own home modification needs. The four sections are a library, links, video list and products.
http://www.homemods.org/resources/index.shtml
Easy Access Housing for Easier Living Program: Adaptable and Accessible Housing
How can you tell if a home or apartment can be easily adapted for accessibility? This checklist from Easter Seals and Century 21 can help you evaluate.
http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntlc_easyaccesshousing_tips_adaptable
Funding Sources for Home Modification
The Council for Disability Rights has a page on funding sources for home modifications.
http://www.disabilityrights.org/mod3.htm
Home Modifications to Promote Independent Living
This fact sheet from AARP describes home modifications can increase safety, accessibility, and independence for older adults in their own homes and discusses policies and programs that support home modifications.
http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/liv-com/fs168-home-modifications.pdf
No Place Like Home: Interior and Exterior
What does preparing a home for aging-in-place mean? This article from AARP by Patricia Nunan and Harry Burns tells what one senior couple did to make their home accessible to their needs so they could stay safely in their own home.
http://www.aarp.org/family/caregiving/articles/
makeovers_no_place_like_home_interior_exterior1.html
Easter Seals and Century 21 System's Easy Access Housing for Easier Living Program provides a guide and checklist to make sure your home is safe and accessible.
http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntlc_easyaccesshousing
Rebuilding Together
This organization provides free rehabilitation and critical repairs and modifications to the homes of low-income Americans, including those with disabilities.
http://www.rebuildingtogether.org/
How-tos and resources
Find information from Infinitec.org on how to modify your vehicle.
http://www.infinitec.org/live/driving/carmods.htm
Rent an Accessible Van
Wheelchair Getaways is a national rental company that provides daily, weekly, or monthly wheelchair accessible van rentals, wheelchair and scooter rentals, and pick-up and delivery services.
http://www.wheelchair-getaways.com/
Vehicle Purchase/Modification Funding Resources
Easter Seals Project Action lists resources for funding if you need to modify a vehicle, or purchase a new one and make it accessible.
http://projectaction.easterseals.com/site/DocServer/vehicle_funding.pdf?docID=10203
On the Road AgainBeing able to drive or ride in an automobile can really improve a person's independence. If you need special features on a car, what should you consider before buying one? This article gives good ideas on this and other adaptive car issues such as easy and inexpensive adaptations and possible funding sources.
http://www.dynamic-living.com/article/car-accessories#clear