Good Practice Guide and Self Evaluation Tool for the Provision of Major Adaptations
What is a Major Adaptation?
It involves permanent, structural changes to a home e.g.:
- Widening doors and fitting a ramp for wheelchair access
- Fitting lower work surfaces to make a kitchen more accessible
- Replacing a bath with a shower
The Good Practice Guide, and accompanying Self Evaluation Toolkit form part of a suite of materials developed to support the Guidance on the Provision of Equipment and Adaptations, published in 2009.
The Guide was developed following an initial scoping exercise to identify and share good practice. A summary report of the scoping exercise is available at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/EandA/ScopingReport.
The Good Practice Guide aims to support local services to effectively develop, deliver, manage, and monitor the provision of major adaptations from assessment to provision, and conclusion of the assessment process.
This Guide focuses on Major Adaptations, a similar guide for the provision of Equipment, and minor adaptations such as grab rails is also available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/EandA/GoodPracticeGuide. Similarly a Self Evaluation Tool, to support that guide is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/EandA/SelfEvalTool.
The Good Practice Guide for the Provision of Major Adaptations is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/EandA/AdaptationsGoodPractice/AdaptGoodPracticeGuide
Self Evaluation Tool
This tool can be applied to the key themes developed in each section of the Good Practice Guide, and used universally by any agencies or services involved in the provision of adaptations.
Self Evaluation Tool
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