Helen, her husband Alfie and two teenage children have lived in their Lifetime Home since 1998. Alfie is a wheelchair user due to an injury caused by an industrial accident. To accommodate this, the house has been adapted with a through-floor lift and a shower has been fitted in the downstairs toilet.
Helen feels very strongly that people should be told that they are living in a Lifetime Home,
"it's great to know your home has been designed to support you whatever happens."
"If this were not a Lifetime Home, we would have had to move or had it adapted and the costs would have been astronomical. It's so much easier and cheaper to adapt a Lifetime Home."
"All the Lifetime Home features have greatly improved my husband's quality of life and the rest of the family get benefits from them too. The downstairs toilet and shower, wide doorways and level access are the most useful to us, to all the family."
"Lifetime Homes should be for everybody. It doesn't matter whether you are disabled or not; everybody deserves to be treated in the same way. None of us know how we are going to be in the future, so if all homes were built to Lifetime Homes specifications, I'm sure there would be less need for people to move home."
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