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  • 1.7 Million Americans are living in a
         wheelchair

  •  49.2% of these Americans have to useImg80.png
    steps to enter their home

  • 47.0% of wheelchair users have difficulty
    reaching or opening cabinets

  •  35.5% of wheelchair users have difficulty
    using the bathroom 
  • 33.1% of wheelchair users have difficulty
    opening or closing doors in the home

      Source: Mobility Device Use in the United States

           Authors: H. Stephen Kaye, Ph.D., Taewoon Kang, Ph.D.,

       Mitchell P. LaPlante, Ph.D. Report 14 June 2000

  • 250,000 Americans are spinal cord injured

  • 11,000 new spinal cord injuries occur every year

 

The majority of those 11,000 individuals injured each year, must return to a home that is not accessible to them; thus leaving them to either remodel or buy a new home.

 

Source:   The University of Alabama National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

The home is a showcase where architects, builders and individuals can view all the latest accessible products and ideas for universal design

 

The ADA Model Home is completely wheelchair accessible. There is no area in the home that has architectural barriers. The most important feature of the house is that not only is it wheelchair accessible but it doesn’t look like it is. When we first started the concept of a model home, we wanted a home that someone else could live in and not be inconvenienced. We needed a home that was accessible to me being in a wheelchair and also to my able-bodied wife. The vast majority of the homes that we researched that were “ADA Compliant” looked like they came directly from a hospital or nursing home and most of the features were troublesome to someone not in a wheelchair. We didn’t want a home that when you walked in to you knew it was built for a wheelchair user.  So our home evolved into a modern concept usable to all.

 

  


 

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