Report
Impacts of new and emerging assistive technologies for ageing and disabled housing
This research looks at how smart home assistive technologies (AT) may be best used in both the aged care and disability sectors to reduce the need for support services. It includes an assessment of ease of use, quality-of-life and cost benefit analysis, and contributes to...
Guide
Web accessibility guide
This guide aims to provide a useful tool to allow web designers and owners to evaluate their websites for accessibility and explains many of the common pitfalls with respect to web accessibility.
Guide
Writing accessible PDFs using Word
This guide to writing accessible PDFs in Microsoft Word is provided to give users the tools to make their documents accessible to a wider audience.
Briefing paper
Addressing the housing needs of participants is critical to NDIS success
Recent reforms in the disability sector through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will allocate funding to individuals who will be able to exercise greater control over its use. More people with disabilities will be able to access support to move from congregate care, group...
Conference paper
Retirement village or the general community? Downsizing choices of older Australians
This paper compares the demographic characteristics of these two groups, circumstances leading to moving, considerations made in their choice of accommodation, difficulty of the moving process and their satisfaction with the outcomes