The Ultimate Resource for Aging in Place With Dignity and Grace!
Are you looking for housing options that are safer and more accommodating for independently aging in place? Do you want to enjoy comfort, accessibility, safety and peace of mind - despite your disabilities, limitations and health challenges? The help you need is available in the Universal Design Toolkit: Time-saving ideas, resources, solutions, and guidance for making homes accessible.
This is the ultimate resource for individuals and professionals who want to save time, money and energy when designing, building, remodeling or downsizing a home. The Universal Design Toolkit will help you take the steps to design homes for your clients or yourself while eliminating the costly trial and error challenges you'd inevitably encounter if faced with this learning curve on your own.
Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., teamed with her husband Mark Leder in creating this unique Toolkit. They bring ten years of research, design and building expertise by serving as the general contractors for their home, the Universal Design Living Laboratory - which is the highest rated universal design home in North America.
Within the Toolkit's 200 richly illustrated pages, you'll find:
- Insights that distinguish essential products, services and resources from the unnecessary.
- Proven, realistic tips for finding the right home.
- Home features you need to look for. Nothing is assumed or left out.
- Handy home checklists and assessments.
- Interview questions to help you hire industry professionals with knowledge and experience.
- Photographs that provide a frame of reference to inspire, clarify and illuminate features and benefits.
- Valuable resources to save you time, money and energy.
- Helpful sources of funding.
- Space planning dimensions for access using assistive devices such as wheelchairs and walkers.
- And so much more!
If you want useful, dependable advice and easy to implement ideas from respected experts who know the ropes, you'll love Rossetti and Leder's perspective. As a speaker, author and consultant who uses a wheelchair, Rossetti has helped hundreds of people design their ideal homes. Now her comprehensive Toolkit is available to help and support you!
Get the Universal Design Toolkit now to start your project!
Rossetti, Rosemarie: - "Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D. is a powerful, internationally known speaker, author, consultant, publisher, and president of Rossetti Enterprises Inc. www.RosemarieSpeaks.com She acquired a spinal cord injury on June 13, 1998 while riding her bicycle when a 7,000 pound tree fell on her. As a person who uses a wheelchair, she knows firsthand the benefits of accessible and universal design. Rossetti and her husband, Mark Leder led a design team, built and live in the Universal Design Living Laboratory, the national demonstration home and garden in Columbus, Ohio. www.udll.com This is the highest rated universal design home in North America earning three national certifications: Livable Design, ZeroStep and Life-Flex. The home received a Silver rating certification on the LEED for Homes program from the U. S. Green Building Council, and earned a Gold rating certification on the National Green Building Standard program. The home is certified as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. Rossetti is a keynote speaker at national conferences and events. Her live and virtual webinar presentations help people integrate universal design and green building features into their projects. Rossetti delivers programs on the topic of universal design and green building, entitled "How To Use Universal Design To Increase Your Business" and "Turning Green Building Practices Into Profits." She consults with consumers, builders, remodelers, Realtors, architects, interiors designers, developers, and occupational therapists that want to create inspired and livable new and remodeled homes. Rossetti created and delivered a universal design and green building day-long accredited course for architects and interior designers, Designing Sustainable Homes that Make Life Easier. Rossetti was certified as a course instructor for the National Association of Home Builder's Universal Design/Build course. She is a Certified Living in Place Professional. Rossetti's "Accessible Home" monthly column was published from March 2006 - June 2011 in Action Magazine, a national publication of the United Spinal Association. Her articles about designing homes have appeared in numerous national publications. She is a member of the National Home Safety and Modification Work Group, as part of National Council on Aging's National Falls Prevention Resource Center. Rossetti was a member of the AARP national coalition on universal design, and the Ohio visitability strategy group to improve the availability of visitable homes in Ohio. She is on the advisory panel of the Living in Place Institute. As a member of the faculty at The Ohio State University from 1986 - 1997, Rossetti taught courses in public speaking, teaching methodology, and marketing. All of her degrees were earned at The Ohio State University. She earned her Ph.D. in 1982 majoring in agricultural education. In 1979 she received her Master's degree in agricultural education. In 1975, she had a dual major in agricultural education and horticulture for her Bachelor of Science degree."
