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Toward a screening tool for housing accessibility problems — a reduced version of the Housing Enabler
Author(s)	Gunilla Carlsson, Oliver Schilling, Björn Slaug
Journal title	Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 28, no 1, February 2009
Pages	pp 59-80
Source	http://jag.sagepub.com
Keywords	Accessibility [housing] ; Evaluation.
Annotation	To present a reduced version of the Housing Enabler, useful as a screening tool in practice contexts and research, this study identifies the core items of the instrument's environmental component, that is, items most important in measuring accessibility problems. A set of core items was identified by using cross-national data and interdisciplinary knowledge. The environmental component of the reduced version comprises 61 items compared to 188 in the original instrument. The rank correlation between the accessibility scores generated by the original and reduced versions was r equal to or greater than .97. Based on comprehensive empirical research in three countries (Sweden, Germany and Latvia), the reduced version of the Housing Enabler is a time-efficient and valid screening instrument. It is a powerful tool for research and interventions focusing on housing accessibility problem identification. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090701202 A
Classmark	KE:5CA: 4C
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