Adapting your home for special needs

Canada is a country with a growing number of people with special needs. According to Canadian Social Trends magazine, published by Statistics Canada, "in 2006, a total of 4.4 million Canadians over the age of 15 identified themselves as having a disability". Many of these people require that the places where they live be conditioned to facilitate their movement within them.

Adapting your home for a person with special needs is much easier today than it was a few years ago, as there is now a wide variety of products that make that task easier, and this time I will show you some of them.

What should accessibility be like for an adapted home?

Imagine that you are adapting a house for a person who uses a wheelchair. The first thing you need to think about is how this person will get into the house, especially if there are steps in the driveway.

Ideally, the architectural infrastructure should have access ramps to facilitate the movement of people with reduced mobility. For this situation you have a series of options: build a ramp, install a prefabricated ramp or acquire a folding and detachable ramp.

These easy-to-install ramps can be found at Maison André Viger, a company that offers a wide range of products to adapt a house to the special needs that any of its inhabitants may have

You should also bear in mind that you will have to modify the doors of the house, you will have to install ones that are sufficiently wide, and preferably sliding, so that a person in a wheelchair can pass through them more easily.

Interior stairs in houses with more than one floor: how can they be adapted to a person's special needs?

When we live in a space for a long time, we find it difficult to conceive of the challenge that displacement in that place represents for a person with special needs. Imagine that your home is inhabited by an elderly person who has joint problems and therefore has difficulty walking up and down stairs. The rooms in your house are on the second level, and this older person will have to make a strenuous sacrifice if you do not adapt the infrastructure before he comes to live in the house.

If this is the case, the solution is for you to install a staircase chair. This will allow your guest to get up and down without any difficulty and without their health being put at risk by a possible fall. Some models of staircase chairs that you can find at Maison André Viger are as follows:

Pinnacle stairlift Atlas	Stairlift platform ar-100 Atlas	Curved stairlift Atlas 260

A bathroom for people with special needs

One of the rooms where adaptation is most urgent is the bathroom. When you adapt the bathroom to a person's special needs, you ensure that they enjoy the privacy and independence they need in that space. Among the improvements you can make are the installation of a folding shower chair or an adapted bathtub or shower. Some of the models that Maison André Viger offers you to adapt a bathroom are the following:

Folding shower bench with armrests grey	Wood folding shower bench	Adapted shower space Waterton
Prestige low threshold shower 60″ x 32″	Adapted tub petite dual	Adapted walk in tub Mahalo

Other adaptations that you can make to your house to adjust it to the special needs of those who will live there are the installation of non-slip floor, handrails, in case the house has a pool you should also install access ramps to it or a pool lever.

If you wish to adapt your house and do not know where to buy the necessary elements, go to Maison André Viger, which offers a prestigious range of pool lifts, stair lifts, handrails and access, adapted bathrooms and showers, which will undoubtedly meet your expectations. To find out more about Maison André Viger, visit the website https://andreviger.com/fr/.

At Maison André Viger you will be assisted by specialists who will help you choose the residential adaptation product you need.