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Extra care housing for people with sight loss
— lighting and design | | Author(s) | Judith Torrington, Alan Lewis |
| Corporate Author | Thomas Pocklington Trust; School of Architecture, University of Sheffield |
| Publisher | Thomas Pocklington Trust, London, 2012 |
| Pages | 6 pp (Research findings, no 36) |
| Source | Thomas Pocklington Trust, Pier House, 90 Strand on the Green, London W4 3NN. www.pocklington-trust.org.uk |
| Keywords | Visual impairment ; Sheltered housing ; Extra care ; Lighting systems ; Architectural design ; Evaluation ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | This publication presents findings from research about the design of extra care housing from the perspective of people with sight loss undertaken by Judith Torrington and Alan Lewis the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. The study asked 44 people living in 11 extra care housing schemes about their experiences of the buildings they lived in, evaluated their homes, and reviewed data from a previous evaluation of 23 extra care housing schemes. The study produced a new tool for evaluating buildings, EVOLVE (Evaluation of Older People's Living Environments), itself the outcome of research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The tool comprises electronic checklists that, when completed, create a new profile of how well a building can support residents. The checklists are designed to be used in a walk-through of a housing scheme. The EVOLVE toolkit is available on the Housing LIN website (at http://www.housinglin.org.uk and search for EVOLVE). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120806004 P |
| Classmark | BR: KLA: QA:58D: YG: YB3: 4C: 3A:6KC * |
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