Who benefits from visitability?
Visitability benefits everyone!
- The young mother with a baby in a stroller, who doesn’t have to hump it up and down steps when she visits her friends
- The UPS driver who brings your new cabinets and leaves them on your front porch
- The homeowner trying to get the new cabinets into the house from the front porch
- Grandma who wants to visit the grandkids but knows she won’t be able to use the bathroom when she visits
- The college kid moving out with all his boxes and belongings
Everyone benefits in a home that has:
- one “no-step” entrance into the main floor of the home
- wider doors and hallways
- one wheelchair-accessible bathroom on the main floor
A house is visitable when it meets three basic requirements:
- one zero-step entrance.
- doors with 32 inches of clear passage space.
- one bathroom on the main floor you can get into in a wheelchair
