The Housing Enabler Screening Tool: Feasibility and Interrater Agreement in a Real Estate Company Practice Context
Iwarsson, Susanne LU ; Slaug, Björn LU
and Malmgren Fänge, Agneta
LU
(2012)
In Journal of Applied Gerontology
31(5).
p.641-660
- Abstract
- The ambition underlying this study is to provide a valid and efficient screening tool targeting accessibility problems in the ordinary housing stock. The study aims to test the feasibility and interrater agreement of a screening-tool version of the Housing Enabler in a real estate company practice context. Two rater pairs administer the screening in 35 apartments in a Swedish municipality. The overall agreement for the rater pairs was 83% and 78%. For 29 of the 61 items of the tool, the agreement was > 80% for both rater pairs; for 8 items, it was < 80%. The findings show that the tool is feasible for use in a real estate practice context but that there is a need for more rater training and an instrument manual. This study... (More)
- The ambition underlying this study is to provide a valid and efficient screening tool targeting accessibility problems in the ordinary housing stock. The study aims to test the feasibility and interrater agreement of a screening-tool version of the Housing Enabler in a real estate company practice context. Two rater pairs administer the screening in 35 apartments in a Swedish municipality. The overall agreement for the rater pairs was 83% and 78%. For 29 of the 61 items of the tool, the agreement was > 80% for both rater pairs; for 8 items, it was < 80%. The findings show that the tool is feasible for use in a real estate practice context but that there is a need for more rater training and an instrument manual. This study contributes to the development of research-based strategies for the identification of accessibility problems in ordinary housing, with the long-term aim to increase accessibility in the housing stock, ultimately supporting activity and participation among senior citizens. (Less)
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- author
- Iwarsson, Susanne
LU
; Slaug, Björn
LU
and Malmgren Fänge, Agneta
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- accessibility, environmental barriers, home assessment, housing, provision, physical environment, transdisciplinary research
- in
- Journal of Applied Gerontology
- volume
- 31
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 641 - 660
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- wos:000308412400004
- scopus:84868132314
- ISSN
- 1552-4523
- DOI
- 10.1177/0733464810397354
- project
- The Enabler Concept - Method Development and Application in Research and Practice
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Occupational Therapy (Closed 2012) (013025000)
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- 5ac1c410-8cb0-435e-944e-6b9cfaa4884a (old id 3146784)
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- 2016-04-01 12:54:54
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