Build Your Space How To Create An Accessible Home For You Your Family And Your Future

Are you looking for ways to create an accessible space to live in? Perhaps you plan to build or renovate, or you need some tips and ideas to help you stay in the home you love? Accessibility is so much more than just grab bars in bathrooms! Whether you are creating a space that works for you, your client or your loved one, Build YOUR Space helps you make decisions that will allow for reduced physical energy needs, improved safety during everyday activities, increased independence and the preservation of dignity. Build YOUR Space "walks" you through the process of planning an accessible space, from a single bathroom to a whole home. You will learn how the big decisions, like windows and flooring can make as much of an impact as the small details of counter height and door handles. Build YOUR Space will help you customize your space to fit your personal requirements.For those who build, renovate and design new buildings, Julie will help you save time and money by doing it right the first time. Using her own home as an example, interviews from experts and further ideas from unconventional accessible spaces, Build YOUR Space highlights all the tips and tricks that you didn't know you needed to know. Julie Sawchuk is an Accessibility Strategist, certified by the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification(R) program. As a published author and professional speaker, she combines her lived experience with her passion for helping people make smart decisions when planning for accessibility. Julie has helped plan the renovations of small century-old buildings on the mainstreet of her hometown, as well as the design of the newly constructed Blyth Cowbell Brewing Co. Two Canadian International Airports have become RHFAC certified with Julie's help and major Ontario cities have also come calling. Julie's home is a showcase of how accessibility is not just functional, but also beautiful.

Are you looking for ways to create an accessible space to live in? Perhaps you plan to build or renovate, or you need some tips and ideas to help you stay in the home you love? Accessibility is so much more than just grab bars in bathrooms! Whether you are creating a space that works for you, your client or your loved one, Build YOUR Space helps you make decisions that will allow for reduced physical energy needs, improved safety during everyday activities, increased independence and the preservation of dignity. Build YOUR Space "walks" you through the process of planning an accessible space, from a single bathroom to a whole home. You will learn how the big decisions, like windows and flooring can make as much of an impact as the small details of counter height and door handles. Build YOUR Space will help you customize your space to fit your personal requirements.For those who build, renovate and design new buildings, Julie will help you save time and money by doing it right the first time. Using her own home as an example, interviews from experts and further ideas from unconventional accessible spaces, Build YOUR Space highlights all the tips and tricks that you didn't know you needed to know. Julie Sawchuk is an Accessibility Strategist, certified by the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification(R) program. As a published author and professional speaker, she combines her lived experience with her passion for helping people make smart decisions when planning for accessibility. Julie has helped plan the renovations of small century-old buildings on the mainstreet of her hometown, as well as the design of the newly constructed Blyth Cowbell Brewing Co. Two Canadian International Airports have become RHFAC certified with Julie's help and major Ontario cities have also come calling. Julie's home is a showcase of how accessibility is not just functional, but also beautiful.

This book explains how to turn the extra space in one's home into a separate living quarters in order to house a relative or to rent out to a boarder to earn extra money.

Have you ever thought of your home as a medicine, the most effective one possible, to achieve the highest state of well-being for you and your family? We’re talking about your whole house, every room, every corner, thought out in such a way that you can experience joy just by spending time there: that it conciliates calm in times of relaxation and stimulates concentration if you have to work. In short, a home that is finally the perfect den of your and your family’s body and soul. All this is possible, and this book guides you step by step to get to know better the place where you live, or where you would like to go to live. It accompanies you to learn more about your true needs and expectations with respect to this new den, and especially to solve its less performing aspects, with various solutions, both as simplicity and cost, following a very ancient and millenary discipline: bioarchitecture. This is a very scientific approach to living, which first and foremost merges beauty, which is indispensable and true care of the soul, with all the chemical, physical and ergonomic aspects that are involved in a serious and competent construction of a home. Nothing more is left to chance by the IGBI Method - Isabella Goldmann Bio Interiors, elaborated over years of profession and scientific research. Isabella Goldmann, a bioarchitect for more than 30 years, describes this method to you in this book in a simple and meticulous way, putting all the secrets at your disposal so that you can apply them immediately, without hesitation, to your home! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Isabella Goldmann was born in The Hague, but she is very Italian. Already at an early age she realizes that she wants to become an architect. She devotes much of her life to this discipline, orienting herself, from the beginning of her professional activity, to a very ancient practice that balances all the aspects necessary to build quality houses: bioclimatic architecture. He is managing partner of Goldmann & Partners srl SB, which has been certified among the best B Corp worldwide for years. Within it, he leads a permanent research center on sustainability applied to living space. She is a proboviro of the Italian Association of Women Engineers and Architects (Milan section) and a Board Member of the Milan Women’s Council. She holds courses, lectures and conferences in universities and public and private institutions. She has written professional books on architecture. This is the first text intended for the general public.

"The idea of the accessible home has evolved beyond grab-bars and ramps to one where accessibility is built into the design, making living in the house easier both for people with disabilities and those without disabilities, young and old"--

Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy is a key text for occupational therapy students and practitioners. Written by an internationally renowned group of clinicians, educators and academics and with a central case study running throughout, the book covers the theory and practice of the following key topics: Working and Thinking in Different Contexts; Teaching as Reasoning; Ethical Reasoning; Diversity in Reasoning; Working and Thinking within 'Evidence Frameworks'; Experience as a Framework; The Client. FEATURES includes case studies problem-solving framework questions at the end of each chapter commentaries on key topics relates theory to practice

Have you ever wanted to design and live in your dream home for the rest of your life? One you can be proud of and accessible to you and those who visit you? * Do you need help getting around your house?* Are you currently recovering from a total hip or knee replacement? * Do you use a cane or walker to help you get around? * Do you want to invite your aging parents for Christmas but can't because you have stairs in your home?* Have you ever wished you could have a house on one level? * Have you ever needed or wanted a bedroom or bathroom on the first floor of your home? * If you answered those questions with a yes, keep reading this book to learn ways to design your home to be accessible for you and your visitors. In this book, you will discover: * Why would you want to Age In Place at home?* Why take my advice? * What is Universal Design? * Who will benefit from Universal Home Design?* Why should you incorporate universal design into your home? * What Is Aging in Place? * What Does an Aging-In-Place Renovation Mean?* Learn how to design your home (room by room) for you to Age-In-Place.* Who are the professionals who specialize in Aging-in-Place?* How to get help from professionals who specialize in Aging-in-place?* What is a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS)?* What current technology and home automation options can help you Age-In-Place?* What are the current services and resources that can help you Age-In-Place?* What are the existing financial resources that can help you to Age-In-Place?* It is an easy-to-follow book about creating an accessible home to help you remain safe and independent. * After learning from my experience designing homes with wheelchair-accessible and Age-in-Place features, you will know how to create your accessible home.* This book is for anyone who has felt frustrated by the general lack of accessible home design resources that are currently available.

Everyone involved in planning, design, construction, maintenance and owning/operating a building with a bathroom needs this book. Although it was written with public and commercial washroom designs in mind, the information also applies to residential spaces. No matter what kind of bathroom you are building, it's always easier to move a line on paper - before it is a permanent wall. Regardless of where you are in your construction, it's never too late to make improvements and build better bathrooms. People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the world. They have family, friends and colleagues that they shop, dine and travel with. Everyday millions of Canada consider accessibility when determining which business to visit. Whether it is a permanent or temporary disability, access to bathrooms will determine whether or not people choose to come to your restaurant, work at your business or use your recreation complex; they have the same needs as you. If people can't access your buildings and the washrooms, it will cost you their business.Building Better Bathrooms will guide you through design criteria for each primary accessible component of a bathroom. You will see what "better bathrooms" look like, how they measure up and, most importantly, you will learn why doing it right really matters.