Accessibility and Age Friendly

This important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.

Quality living in old age is one of the key topics of our time. Integrative forms of housing and living emerge from sophisticated design solutions, transcending the boundaries between individual, collective and assisted forms of living.

This practical handbook published in conjunction with the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) sets out the design and specification principles of steps, stairs, ramps, escalators and moving walks for inclusive environments.

How can we provide good spatial orientation for people with dementia? This book addresses this question extensively in a selection of professional essays and projects that also carve out specific requirements for various disciplines.

Exploration of the aspects of design that need to be rethought in the light of the need for architecture for an ageing population including those with dementia.

Quality living in old age is one of the key topics of our time. Integrative forms of housing and living emerge from sophisticated design solutions, transcending the boundaries between individual, collective and assisted forms of living.

The book offers many new ideas, methods and built examples to architectural and urban design educators, students and practitioners; and to wider audiences who want to think about disability and built space differently.

This book is intended to be a 'first-source' reference-at the desk or in the field-for design professionals, contractors and builders, and developers and building owners.