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The housing market is awash with all manner of terminology. The elderly in particular, as long-term and reliably paying residents are a much sought-after consumer group, and are courted with promises of senior-friendly, full-comfort, intra-generational or accessible housing. Of these, only the term accessible is formally defined, and is detailed in the German DIN 18025/2 norm “accessible dwellings.” The other “labels” are not obliged to fulfil any meaningful criteria. So how can yet another undefined term, low-barrier, contribute to the debate?
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Susanne Edinger, Helmut Lerch, Christine Lentze, Barrierearm — Realisierung eines neuen Begriffes. Kompendium kostengünstiger Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung und Vermeidung von Barrieren im Wohnungsbestand, Research project funded by the BBR Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, issued by the SRH-Hochschule Heidelberg. Fraunhofer IRB-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007, p. 17.
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Edinger, S. (2009). Practice — Reducing barriers. In: Christ, W. (eds) Access for All. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0379-9_8
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