Designing person-centred robust Specialist Disability Accommodation

• Summary

  A summary of the research undertaken into designing person-centred robust Specialist Disability Accommodation

• Introduction

  Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is for people who need specialist housing solutions

• Part A: Background – Resident Needs

  This section gives background to help understand the needs of residents in robust SDA

• Part B: Good-practice design principles

  This section presents the seven design principles to support good-practice robust SDA found in the research

• Examples of good practice and innovation using the design principles and features

  This section presents good-practice examples across a range of robust SDA design and development aspects that stakeholders shared in the research

• Conclusions

  The research found that good-practice robust SDA tailored to each resident’s specific needs has potential to improve quality of life and resident outcomes while reducing behaviours of concern.

Updated 17 December 2021