107: What Universal Design Actually Means

A step in a pathway to a home can keep someone from entering that home altogether. There's no easy workaround like some other design features - unless you make a step-free entrance from the start. Source

Exploring the details and benefits of a wide pathway and minimal slope and cross-slope for exterior pathways. Source

Learn why even lighting + remote/automatic activation of light sources are important for safety and convenience in parking areas and pathways to any home. Source

When considering parking areas and routes to any entrance of a home, the surfaces should be even, solid, well maintained, slip-resistant, and not steep. Source

We discuss the importance of covered and enclosed parking spaces, power door openers, and the height of garages and carports for tasks in parking areas. Source

We discuss how the details of where a vehicle parks, the space around it, and how the slope impacts everyday tasks that take place in garages, driveways, parking spaces, and more. Source

Prep Episode #3. Learn about the mismatch in our housing stock and why everyone benefits from universally accessible homes. Source

Prep episode 2 of 3. Learn an OT's process of breaking down everyday tasks into their individual steps to identify exactly what a person needs to do — physically, visually, and cognitively — and where the environment helps or gets in the way. Source

Prep episode 1 of 3 in our new series going through every element, system, and room of a home from an OT lens! We explore what UD is how it applies to everyone. Source

OTD student, Alexis, showcases her work in a free home mods funding resource and reports on what changes to expect in our recently reviewed home mods tool. Source