Gary Renick | April 29, 2009
For most of my early adult life I lived in apartments. Every one of these apartments claimed to be handicap accessible. They all proudly displayed the wheelchair symbol on their ads and signs. However when asked what made the apartment accessible the answer was pretty much the same. They would tell you it was near [...]
Category: Government Policy, Handicap Issues, Obama, President |
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Gary Renick | January 23, 2009
What is Universal Design It
is a set of design criteria
developed to allow for
people to age in place.
Now this means that as we
get older and less able to
do the things we used to
do,
Category: Government Policy, Handicap Issues, Residential Standards |
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Gary Renick | January 23, 2009
What do you mean Visitable
Category: Government Policy, Handicap Issues |
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Gary Renick | January 12, 2009
The other day I wrote about people who park in handicap spaces that shouldn’t. Well that just reminded me of another pet peeve of mine. That is so called handicapped restrooms that are not really. There are several different type of what I like to call “Handicap bathroom want to be’s” . The first is [...]
Category: Handicap Issues, The ADA |
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Gary Renick | January 2, 2009
I have a pet peeve and that is people who park in handicap parking illegally. My wife used to say I over reacted, but now that she drives me around in my lift van all the time she is just as vocal as I am. I no longer am able to drive, so that is [...]
Category: Government Policy, Handicap Issues, The ADA |
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