Canada

Flex Housing – Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation

FlexHousing™ is a practical approach to designing and building housing
that allows residents to convert space to meet their changing needs.
Based on the principles of adaptability, accessibility, affordability
and healthy housing, FlexHousing™ brings together the best of
everything we know about building houses.

http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/buho/flho/index.cfm

Institute without Boundaries - Ontario

The Institute without
Boundaries is an interdisciplinary postgraduate program at the School
of Design at George Brown College that challenges students to
collaborate on global problems. Our inaugural project, Massive Change,
explored and sparked a discourse on the future of global design. Our
second project, World House, confronts the issue of shelter for coming
generations by developing housing systems that operate on the
principles of sustainability, universality, technological
responsiveness and ecological balance.

http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.ca

Worldhouse: Institute without Boundaries
www.worldhouse.ca

Visitability - Canada

The purpose and long-term outcome of this project is to determine the
impact of Visitability on communities. This project will be a major
step forward in creating inclusive and livable communities.
The project focuses on Canada to discover where Visitability
initiatives are taking place and what factors are facilitating its
growth or are creating barriers to implementation.

http://www.visitablehousingcanada.com/

Canuhome

The Canuhome is for the whole family. It’s based on whole systems
design. It’s a home that takes into consideration geographic, climatic,
economic and cultural values, promoting the shared Canadian values of
sustainability and universality that lead to overall wellness

www.canuhome.com

New Zealand

Beacon Now Home - New Zealand

NOW Homes® are being developed throughout New Zealand as part of an
extended research project into how to create affordable homes that are
warmer, healthier, cheaper to run and kinder to the environment.

Designed to meet future needs, NOW Home® projects use materials and
technology readily available now. Once built or retrofitted, the
effectiveness of the changes is monitored while the house is occupied.

http://www.nowhome.co.nz/home.aspx

Lifetime Design - New Zealand

Imagine - Every Body. Every Place.
Imagine if our homes, workplaces, public buildings and spaces, and even
the products we use were designed for everyone - regardless of age or
mobility. That would transform how families and even entire communities
live. It’s an inspired goal. And it’s precisely what the Lifetime
Design Foundation is committed to achieving

http://www.lifetimedesign.org.nz/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

United Kingdom

Inclusive design toolkit - BT and i~design, United Kingdom

We live in an increasingly complex and technologically rich world, and
can all cite examples of products that are difficult or frustrating to
use. By applying inclusive design principles, involving users in the
design, and considering the needs of people with reduced capabilities,
products can be made usable, useful and desirable.

http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/betterdesign/

Life Time Homes - United Kingdom

Lifetime Homes make life as easy as
possible, for as long as possible because they are thoughtfully
designed.
They are homes for everyone and bring benefits to anyone
who lives in them because of the individual choices that they make
possible.
The flexibility and adaptability of Lifetime Homes
accommodate life events quickly, cost-effectively
and without
upheaval.

http://www.lifetimehomes.org.uk/

Helen Hamlyn Centre: people centred design and innovation at the royal college of art

Its programmes looks at how a people-centred and socially inclusive approach to design can support independent living and working for ageing and diverse populations, improved standards of healthcare and patient safety, and a flow of innovative ideas for business.

http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk

Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods: A national strategy for housing in an ageing Society / Communities and Local Government. Crown Copyright, February 2008.

The ageing of the population will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century for housing. This strategy sets out our response to this challenge, our plan to create Lifetime Homes in Lifetime Neighbourhoods.
It outlines our plans for making sure that there is enough appropriate housing available in future to relieve the fore casted unsustainable pressures on homes, health and social care services.

http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/702993

Centre for usable home technology: Responsive home

CUHTec has a 3-bedroom bungalow on the University of York campus which is furnished as a "living home" laboratory. This Responsive Home contains demonstrations of various technologies and equipment for recording and analysing user behaviour in a domestic setting. This facility can be hired for meetings and as a viewing facility for user studies.

http://cuhtec.org.uk/resphome.php

United States

IDEA: Centre for Inclusive Design & Environmental Access

Over the last two years, the Center for Inclusive Design and
Environmental Access (IDEA) has engaged in a variety of education,
outreach and research activities on the topic of "universal design."
Through this process we have developed some insights that we think are
valuable to all those interested in promoting the universal design
philosophy

http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/~arced/lifespan00/udi/udi9.html

Barrier free home: homes & apartments for the mobility-impaired

Barrier-Free Home is a “one-stop-shop” for barrier-free homes and
apartments. With extensive data on each home/apartment, photographs and
feature lists, finding a wheelchair-accessible home becomes much
easier. If you are a real estate agent, Realtor® or a property owner,
Barrier-Free Home encourages you to advertise your universal design
home or apartment to our large, interested audience. With a clean,
understandable user interface, low advertising rates and a large list
of features, Barrier-Free Home can help both buyers and sellers of
barrier-free homes.

http://www.barrierfreehome.com/

Age in place

Independent & Assisted Living products

http://www.age-in-place.com/