Barrier-free living environment (accessible living environment, accessible living environment for persons with disabilities)
a normal environment that surrounds a person, adapted to the needs arising from disability and allows persons with disabilities to lead an independent lifestyle. The legally established standards for adapting the urban environment to the needs of persons with disabilities include:
1) apartments specially equipped for persons with disabilities;- special residential buildings with a complex of social services;
2) devices and equipment that facilitate the movement of persons with disabilities in wheelchairs in residential and public buildings in the form of wide doorways, wide elevator cabins and elevator entrances, ramps, handrails, etc.;
3) transport specially adapted for persons with disabilities, sidewalks, underground passages, etc. in the form of low curbstones, ramps in underground passages, the creation of safety islands on busy highways;
4) Provision of sound and light signaling facilities for bus stops, crossings, transport forks, railway stations, airports, trade and social service institutions and other facilities.