THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT HAS MADE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT — BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE LEFT TO BE DONE
But people with disabilities are not outliers, and designing for a wide variety of needs is not a constraint.
The CDC has documented that one in four Americans
have a permanent disability, and the United Nations has estimated that 1.3 billion have
a significant disability, too.
And those numbers aren’t likely to go down, especially as our population ages.
By 2030, one in six people in the world will be aged 60 years or over, and
the World Health Organization expects the sheer number of people over that age
to double to more than 2.1 billion by 2050.
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