Adapting for Community Care,Part 1

Abstract

This article examines the provision and funding of home adaptations for people with physical disabilities. Part 1 looks at the following components of home adaptations: the implementation of local housing and social legislation; the effect housing tenure has on the ease of obtaining adaptations; and the involvement of a variety of agencies in the adaptation process.

The findings are based on questionnaires and informal interviews of local authority housing departments, community occupational therapists and Disabled Facilities Grant applicants. The article concludes that people with disabilities receive an adaptation service which is skewed according to housing tenure and affected by the variation in local interpretation and implementation of social legislation.