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How can building designers and healthcare providers proactively ensure that medical diagnostic equipment is accessible to patients with disabilities?

Providing accessible controls for window shades and blinds at healthcare facilities gives patients and family members an active role in recovery.

Designing spaces to be accessible to all is essential to ensuring that patients, visitors, and staff can benefit from the benefits a hospital garden offers.

Whether it’s keeping family posted, getting work done, or streaming music or videos to help the time pass, the ability to stay connected and charged can relieve some of the stress that often comes with hospital visits.

Within hospitals and long-term care facilities, effective implementation of interventions and design strategies to reduce patient falls are key to increased patient safety and decreased medical costs. However, it may not be possible to eliminate patient falls altogether, so features…

Even when hotels are designed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we often find these 10 accessible design mistakes.

What is inclusive design, and how is it different than accessibility and universal design? See examples of inclusive design in practice.