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Independent living is a move towards creating or continuing independence, maintaining and enhancing self respect, securing self-determination and ensuring recognition as an equal. This has implications at every level of a human being's existence. As we grow older, we move from being totally dependent, to completely independent and then to being interdependent. It is this maintenance of interdependence for as long as possible which is important to our older generation. They need to be independent at one level but at another need to be able to do for others as well. Our role is to enhance the independence side so that it is a lot easier for friends and family to enjoy the interdependence side of the relationship. People with disabilities do not want to be different from others but want to engage products and living spaces in the same barrier-free way as others. They do not want special products but rather a Universal Design which allows everyone to use the same products and have barrier-free access. Our primary function is to build, modify and renovate homes, so that it is possible for anyone, with or without a disability, of a temporary or permanent nature, old or young and of any cultural group, to live independently. We are able to modify buildings, furniture and fittings, gardens and paths, garages and access points and pretty much anything of a structural nature. Where a member of your family has a physical challenge, we are able to rework your environment to accommodate the challenge or at least reduce the impact. In this way, families stay together and all are seen and valued as just plain ordinary people.
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