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Title: Home Assessments:


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Home Assessments
  • February 18, 2004

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Home Sweet Home
  • Home is more than just where you live
  • Where we spend our lives, raise our families,
    grow old
  • For people with disabilities ADLs can be far
    from routine

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Why do home assessments
  • Because poor designs, clutter, or the lack of
    technology can increase stress and physical
    burden
  • For appropriate recommendations (top 3)
  • Replacing or adding fixtures/appliances/features
  • Changing or adding to the structure, i.e.
    widening doorways
  • Technology, i.e., movement sensor-activated light

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One example of a home assessment CASPAR
(Comprehensive Assessment and Solution Process
for Aging Residents)
  • CASPAR is designed to help you
  • Collect needed information about client and
    functional ability
  • Measure features of the house which need to be
    changed
  • Take descriptive photographs
  • What you need
  • 25 tape measure, camera and photo capacity.
  • CASPAR is innovative and tested process for
    assessing homes and specifying modifications
  • Based on the experience of EHLS (Extended Home
    Living Services)
  • Designed for professionals to work with client
    and family throughout planning and implementation
    of home re-modification

http//www.ehls.com/about/about.html
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Information collected
  • Contact information- client name, add, telephone
    number, email, fax, etc.
  • Client information- from client or family
    regarding personal description, diagnosis,
    mobility aids, assistance received, clients
    sensory and motor abilities
  • Problems experienced in the home- perceptions
    from client/family
  • Client goals- client/family prioritized
  • Description of the home- measurements and photos
    taken identified as priorities for change
  • Recommendations- your recommendations about the
    client or home

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Once CASPAR is filled out, what is next?
  • Send completed portion of CASPAR and photos to
    EHLS- EHLS will formulate a solution packet with
    the following
  • Analysis of CASPAR
  • Recommendations for best solutions and rationale
  • Alternative solutions
  • Architectural drawings, if needed
  • Product specifications
  • Comparative costs
  • Installation specifications and drawings
  • Vendor information
  • How the work gets done is dependent on many
    variables (size of job, types of modifications,
    availability of skilled person in clients area)
  • When seeking someone to do the work consider
    these factors
  • Hiring a licensed and bonded contractor
  • Getting estimates in writing
  • Hiring a contractor who will guarantee his/her
    work and products
  • Making any changes in writing
  • Refraining from signing a certificate of
    completion or making final payments until the
    work id done
  • Asking for references

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Resources for home assessments and home
modifications
  • Changing needs, changing homes Adapting your
    home to fit you. American Occupational Therapy
    Foundation. Montgomery Lane. Bethesda, MD.
    301-652-2682 35.00
  • Home Safety Guide for Older People Check it
    Out/ Fix It Up. Jon Pynoos and Evelyn Cohen.
    Serif Press, Inc. 4010 5th Road, North
    Arlington, Va 22203. 703-425-5222. 18.45
  • Safety for Older Consumers. US Consumer Product
    Safety Commission. Washington, DC 20049.
    1-800-638-2772. Free
  • The DoAble Renewable Home Making Your Home Fit
    Your Needs (12470). AARP Fulfillment. Consumer
    Affairs. 601 E. Street, NW. Washington, DC
    20049. 202-434-2277 Free (single copies)
  • The National Resource Center on Supportive
    Housing and Home Modification. USC Andrus
    Gerontology Center. Los Angeles, Ca 90089-0191.
    213-740-1364. http//www.homemods.org E-mail
    homemods_at_usc.edu
  • Center for Universal Design, NC State University.
    Raleigh, NC 27695-8613. 1-800-647-6777.
    http//www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/index.html
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