Accessible design: what adoption of the Revised ADA Standards means for the active-aging industry by Jessica Madrigal, MS

As the population of people in their 50s and beyond continues to increase in the coming years, many more individuals will face the risk of disability and chronic disease. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law enacted in the United States in 1990 to protect people with disabilities. Under the ADA, a person with a disability is someone who “has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment.”