At the organizational level, it will require a change in the laissez-faire policy that acknowledges the need for training but does not proactively apply a comprehensive program to ensure that professionals are adequately trained. Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly, 1(1), 45-54. After three decades of debate, there are few empirical data and a general lack of psychometrically sound measures (Gitlin, 2003). Pynoos, J., Cohen, E., Davis, L., and Bernhardt, S. (1987). An example is a $300 smart phone compared with other cell phones, many of which are given away. It includes reducing work-related injury, illness and disability by addressing the hazards and risks of the physical environment. (2002). Universal design standards for single-family housing. Health-related safety: A framework to address aging in place. Most of what people think they know is based on practice rather than evidence. Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly, 4, 85-107. (2007). Design directives in home adaptation. Fange, A., and Iwarsson, S. (2003). Kochera, A. Still, modifications for healthy, independent living in the community should be a public health concern for which funding is made available. (2004). Louie, J. Based on feedback from you, our users, we've made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 52, 625-634. However, it is not a practice that is used in assessing needs for therapeutic home interventions. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 49(3), 327-337. Health and community design: The impact of the built environment on physical activity. Justifying the Cost of Preventive Maintenance », Federal Bureau of Investigation Careers », NFMT - Facilities Education and Conference. The most conspicuous barrier to adoption of this innovation is the policy paradigm that rewards specialized technology and personal assistance with limited and calculated benefits rather than everyday universal design, which has potential for multiple and far-reaching benefits. Providing a facilitating environment in the home is different from providing an accessible environment in community settings. Optimal person-environment (P-E) fit occurs when an individual’s abilities and the demands of the environment are compatible. For example, social factors might include the impact of other individuals in a home, who may or may not be providing care, as well as the impact of modifications on those individuals (Gitlin, 2003). In contrast, environmental facilitators reduce barriers and have positive impacts on functioning of individuals and their caregivers. Not only should public policy encourage health care payers to continue paying for existing equipment and assistive devices, it should also encourage accessible design modifications and, wherever possible, universal design modifications to facilitate safe activity performance and prevent accidents, promote wellness and health management, and ultimately forestall institutionalization. In W.E. Importantly, although the physical environment plays an important role in activity performance and health, it neither dictates nor determines activity performance or health behavior. New York: Elsevier. ADA accessibility guidelines for buildings and facilities (ADAAG). As long as housing and health remain separate, decisions about the allocation of monies from each will be driven by bureaucratic rules rather than by the needs of individuals and their health care providers. Personal safety, violence, and home health. As a result, assessments undertaken by construction professionals may overestimate the need for environmental interventions. ), Staying put: Adapting the places instead of the people (pp. Under government insurance requirements, the maker of the PC, which ran ordinary Microsoft Windows software, had to block any nonspeech functions, like sending e-mail or browsing the Web…. Going back to the discussion of the ICF, con-. Clearly, for the home to succeed as a health care environment, zoning ordinances and building codes must be changed to recognize cohabitation or multifamily units for health reasons. Assistive technology devices and home accessibility features: Prevalence, payment, need and trends. Other chapters in this volume address social and policy environments. However, because the reimbursement system is client-centric, it is concerned with meeting the needs of individual clients. Amityville, NY: Baywood. Moreover, because UD and other environmental intervention strategies are the exceptions to home design rather than the norm, there are few traditional marketing strategies (e.g., TV advertisements) to inform consumers about their benefits. Birren and K.W. This chapter examines the prosthetic and therapeutic roles of the environment in promoting positive activity and health outcomes, identifies barriers to supportive home environments, and proposes that universal design—the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design (Mace, Hardie, and Place, 1991)—be adopted as the conceptual basis for the paradigm shift that is needed to promote independent living and health management. If, as the ICF suggests, the environment is an intervention in both health treatment and prevention, then one should expect that the professionals responsible for people’s health and well-being (i.e., physicians) would be aware of, if not somewhat knowledgeable about, these types of health interventions. Not only are stairs a barrier to wheelchair users, they also can become a safety hazard and an obstacle to independence for individuals with gait and balance problems and those who use walking aids. Toronto, ON: CAOT. A range of other physical environmental features have been linked to other health outcomes. 1992), and also that people in need often adapt to their current environment, rather than change their home to meet their needs, particularly when the alterations are related to aging or disability (Filion, Wister, and Coblentz, 1992; Gilderbloom and Markham, 1996; Pynoos et al., 1997). According to the World Health Organization in its 1948 constitution, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” While it may seem that energy is one of the largest contributors to costs in buildings, according to the World Economic Forum and others, salary/benefits make up 90 percent of those costs, rent/operations 9 percent and energy just 1 percent. Similarly, consumers are often uninformed or harbor misperceptions about environmental innovations. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. In addition, certification should be more stringent than that currently offered and should be designed specifically for the home environment (e.g., neither occupational therapist licensure nor assistive technology practitioner certification ensures a knowledge of either the client’s housing needs or the home environment). In the end, home modifications that are the best fit for the situation may or may not be an “ideal” fit with the functional abilities of the client or caregiver or with the home environment. private individuals, limiting their availability as demonstration homes on a long-term basis. Ultimately, the adoption of the physical environment, and UD in particular, as a broad-based intervention strategy will require fundamental paradigm shifts in both housing and health that recognize the home environment and everything in it as an integral part of the medical milieu. Wahl, H.-W., Fange, A., Oswald, F., Gitlin, L.N., and Iwarsson, S. (2009). Generally the assumption is that the faster one can perform a task, the better. ), Housing the aged: Design directives and policy considerations (pp. As a result, there are complex and redundant networks of sensors and hardware that connect care recipients with caregivers and care providers both inside and outside the home. The American Medical Association should support and promote environmental interventions as a health care issue. Lehoux, P., Richard, L., Pineault, R., and Saint-Arnaud, J. While health programs and housing programs in the United States operate independently of each other, the needs of individuals would suggest they should not. New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, once wild places thinly populated by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and fishermen, now are covered in concrete and rise with buildings hundreds of meters tall. Development of a tele-technology protocol for in-home rehabilitation. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 3,137-3,146. Gerontological Society of American Annual Conference, Dallas, TX. Despite the widespread acknowledgment and acceptance of the UD principles across many professions and among many manufacturers, application of the principles to the design of housing, as well as to consumer products and technologies, has been slow to take place. This type of assessment is illustrated by a number of instruments, such as the Housing Enabler (Iwarsson, 1999) and the Cougar Home Safety Assessment (Fisher, Coolbaugh, and Rhodes, 2006; Fisher et al., 2008). (1998). Home Health Care Service Quarterly, 20, 57-73. The bathroom, with its wet, slippery surfaces, small, cramped spaces, and hard surfaces can easily lead to falls and serious injury, even for people without functional limitations. Going back to the case of Kara Lynn, when the cost of the $300 iPhone is compared with an $8,000 augmentative communication device that didn’t work as well, the cost savings for the American public per device can be significant. Pynoos, J. To accomplish this, reimbursement must overcome its “hands-off-the-home” policy, create incentives for universal design, incorporate access into local building codes, make environmental interventions a medical issue, and certify providers of prosthetic and therapeutic interventions. In contrast to treatment technologies, preventive technologies tend to be smaller portable or mounted electronic monitoring devices that allow individuals or family members to measure and obtain feedback about specific health conditions or physiological status or to facilitate communication with friends, family, and care providers. These products need to be usable by both health care recipients and providers, and they need to fit into the home environment. These include the location of housing in unsafe neighborhoods, overheated room temperatures, poor indoor air quality, and unsanitary conditions. Sanford, J. For zoning, this is to maintain the character of a neighborhood, while building codes are designed minimize the amount of impervious (impenetrable) surfaces (e.g., concrete or a roofed structure) to limit water runoff onto adjacent properties. This book is a summary of that workshop, representing the culmination of the first phase of the study. Cumming, R.G., Thomas, M., Szonyi, G., Frampton, G., Salkeld, G., and Clemson, L. (2001). In such cases, everyday housing and products can be used to support health and activity needs without the need for expensive modifications. There is a direct relationship between health and housing. Sanford, J.A., and Megrew, M.B. World Health Organization. Not only are these clinicians most likely to be seen by the majority of people, but because they are expected to be knowledgeable about medical interventions and they are generally well respected, it is also likely that their advice will be followed. • The quality of air for breathe, the water for drink, exposure to noise, harmful orgasms, radiation from the sun and other sources. The New York Times. These interconnections are bolstered by the public health community itself, as embraced by the model of health embodied in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, in which the environment is seen as both a therapeutic health care milieu and a prosthetic health intervention. To engender a more holistic approach to activity and health needs and to provide home environments that are more supportive of those needs, a number of policy, public, and personal constraints must be overcome. (2010). Use, type and efficacay of assistance for disability. Environmental gerontology: Progress in the post-Lawton era. Tinetti, M.E., Baker, D., Gallo, W.T., Nanda, A., Charpentier, P., and O’Leary, J. Unlike Sweden and other countries that include home environmental interventions as an option to support independent and healthy living, the U.S. reimbursement system does not. Journal of Gerontology. Neither is housing designed to accommodate health care equipment, health care providers, or the communications infrastructure necessary to share health information with remote care providers. Space is limited, and there are ever-increasing technologies and devices vying for it. New York Times. However, … Not surprisingly therefore, there is a general lack of a coordinated and comprehensive system of services that would permit expanded health care and housing options, promote self-sufficiency and independence, and offset social isolation (Lawler, 2001). Among care recipients, these conditions can increase the risk of falls and other injuries, although the latter issues have not been assessed (Gershon et al., 2008). Baum (Eds. After all, preventive medicine and clinical intervention are dependent on environmental modification. These types of studies are considered to be the gold standard of clinical research and produce the type of data that are required to justify policy change, but their validity for environmental research is difficult to defend. Sanford, J.A., Jones, M.L., Daviou, P., Grogg, K., and Butterfield, T. (2004). Assistive Technology, 16(1), 43-53. Clemson, L., Roland, M., and Cumming, R.G. Frank, L., Engelke, P.O., and Schmid, T.L. Even making small changes can pose large problems for individuals who are unfamiliar with UD and home modifications and have misperceptions of what they are and what benefits they offer. With the fragmentation and restrictions, it is not surprising that in 2000, only half of the 2.1 million older U.S. households that needed home modifications to facilitate aging in place had them (Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2000). Available: http://www.access-board.gov/adaag/html/adaag.htm [accessed June 2010]. Health problems related to the environment are complex and develop for a variety of reasons, including how likely a person’s genes are to develop a disease or condition (scientists call this genetic susceptibility). In addition, the costs of some modifications are reimbursable, while others are not. White (Eds. Gerontologist, 45, 389-398. Reduce exposure to motor vehicle exhaust by limiting physical activity near heavy traffic areas, particularly at rush hour. For example, in a prospective cohort study to determine whether the prevalence of environmental hazards increased the rate of nonsyncopal (i.e., not from fainting) falls among older adults, Gill, Williams, and Tinetti (2000) had a trained research nurse assess home hazards using a standard instrument that included 13 potential slip and trip hazards. Seniors commission report. A pilot study of the activity patterns of five elderly persons after a housing adaptation. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 25(2), 80-91. Consumers also may believe that the costs of environmental modifications are prohibitive, even when they know the benefits. In T. Oakland and E. Mpofu (Eds. It is up to individuals and care providers to either take advantage of any opportunities presented by prosthetic and therapeutic environmental facilitators or overcome the demands of any barriers that are present. Insurers fight speech impairment remedy. Oswald, F., Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., and Gang, K. (2002). In addition, for people with vision loss, it is important to control glare by using sheer curtains or translucent shades (as opposed to metal miniblinds that reflect light) to buffer bright sunlight and reduce dark-light transitions between rooms. Although these two outcomes measure different constructs (e.g., problems encountered with or without assistance versus level of assistance required, respectively), they often are used interchangeably. Sanford, J.A., Griffiths, P.M., Richardson, P., Hargraves, K., Butterfield, T., and Hoenig, H. (2007). (2006). Electrical systems that are outdated and do not meet current building codes are particularly problematic; most local codes require the entire system to be brought up to code when any electrical work is done. Survey data further suggest that homes built after 1980 and multifamily structures are significantly more likely to meet some of the prosthetic needs of older adults than units built in any earlier time period (Louie, 1999). Woodward and colleagues (2004) argued that home care is dependent on three types of knowledge and skills: (1) those that are appropriate to the client, (2) the care required, and (3) the home. However, it is a rare physician who considers environmental interventions as part of a care plan. In the federal government, there are at least seven departments that have programs in which funds can be used for home modifications, including Agriculture, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services (HHS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. Joint Center for Housing Studies. Wu, S., and Green, A. These include cohort studies of assistive technologies, evaluations of environments in use (e.g., postoccupancy evaluations), and case study evidence from practice that benefitted from programs that were already implementing environmental interventions. Despite a reluctance to make changes, the strongest predictor of adapting one’s home is recognizing the need for environmental interventions (Pynoos et al., 1987). Psychological and Social Sciences, 57, S366-S379. Journal of the American Medical Association, 287, 2,098-2,105. As a result, the MFP Program is more of a paradigm adjustment than a fundamental change in thinking. Many inaccessible … American Journal of Public Health, 93(9), 1,451-1,456. Kansas State University, Manhattan. Disposal of medical supplies, particularly used needles, and a backup generator in case of a power outage are also major considerations. As promulgated and reinforced by codes and standards, accessible design is based on a 20th-century if-you-build-it-they-will-come mentality that is predicated on the belief that enabling independence in activities will beget participation in social roles. (1995). Kendra, M.A., Weiker, A., Simon, S., Grant, A., and Shullick, D. (1996). In contrast to accessible design, which is prescriptive (e.g., a threshold may be no greater than 1/4 inch to allow wheelchair access), UD is performance-based; it describes how and why a design can minimize demands on all users (e.g., a level entrance will enable everyone to safely enter) rather than what the design specification should be. If actual ability and activity performance are not assessed, how can one be sure that performance based on expectations of what individuals can do accurately reflects what they actually do and, consequently, the effectiveness of the environmental modifications for a particular client? Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., Nygren, C., Fange, A., Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., Szeman, Z., Tomsone, S., and Iwarsson, S. (2007). Various environmental attributes are then systematically rated in relation to their expected impact on performance. Examples of the types of physical factors supporting employee health that an environmental assessment can be used to observe include: Setting Overall site layout – number of buildings (freestanding or connected), square footage (internal), acreage (external – how big is the campus for things like walkability), traffic patterns (2001b). International Longevity Center-USA. Although the lack of random assignment complicates statistical analyses in quasi-experimental designs, the experimental approach permits the research to fit seamlessly into and capitalize on naturally occurring situations. Jonathan Sanford. Together, these factors have resulted in both a poor supply of and limited demand for environmental innovations. It also requires changes in reimbursement that recognize and support environmental assessments and interventions as part of discharge planning and continue to support them on an ongoing basis as conditions change and throughout the life span. The classification system not only associates specific environmental factors with positive or negative outcomes but also provides a mechanism for measuring the level of P-E fit or misfit by rating the strength of a particular factor as a facilitator (from 0 to +4) or barrier (from 0 to −4). Environmental research has suffered from studies, many firmly entrenched in epidemiological models, that lacked a basic understanding of the key environmental factors that impact activity and health outcomes. In V. Regnier and J. Pynoos (Eds. A service cannot be experienced before it is delivered. At the same time, new rating systems have been created, including WELL and Fitwel, that focus exclusively on occupant health and productivity. National Council on Disability. Although the physical environment as a co-determinant of health could be approached in many ways, we chose to focus on an understudied area: how the immediate living environment can act as a persuasive force affecting physical activity level in older people, with physical activity in turn affecting health status. Rubenstein, L.Z. Limited information contributes to a lack of consumer demand; limited demand for home modification services results in few experienced providers and remodelers; inexperienced providers and remodelers produce poorly crafted, ill-suited modifications; small, scattered, little-known, and underutilized funding sources produce a patchwork of public service programs and make it hard for low-income households to undertake projects. First, while space might be the great equalizer, the builder’s prime directive is that the home cannot increase in size (i.e., cost). One mechanism for creating awareness of the advantages of UD is to try out alternatives to see what works best. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 4(2), 181-196. Clearly, the reluctance of both public and private agencies to invest in permanent changes that might enhance the value of a private residence is a major barrier to more supportive, universal homes. Using telerehabilitation to identify home modification needs. They also restrict the construction of such housing as accessory dwelling units for caregivers or care recipients (e.g., in-law suites) on traditional single-family lots, even though such units can delay the need for institutional care. The state of the nation’s housing 1999. Social Science and Medicine, 58, 177-192. In T. Oakland and E. Mpofu (Eds. However, the scope of modifications differs along professional boundaries. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(3), 127-132. Technology and Disability, 2(4), 1-8. This suggests that clinical significance may be important regardless of whether statistical significance can be demonstrated. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 10(1), i-iv. In general, smaller monitoring and communications technologies have little impact on the structure of the home. 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