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RETIREMENT HOUSING EXPLANATIONS to help you find your perfect retirement property.
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  Deed of Conditions Framework for the management of retirement housing in Scotland..
  Deed of Covenant Legally binding document as between a freeholder and a management organisation..
  Department of Social Security

Supplies data, help and general advice regarding social security benefits. For example disability pension, mobility allowance etc.

  Design Features

The best designed retirement housing schemes should enable you to walk into a flat or cottage without knowing that it has been specially designed for the retired. Doors may be slightly larger and power points at knee height so as not to pop over sofas and generally you are not aware of special features but they are there nonetheless unobtrusively. Examples of good design would be low window sills - so people can look out easily, terraces for somewhere sit and flexible accommodation; the ability to change dining rooms into bedrooms when you get older. Properties should be built with an eye to low maintenance to keep service costs down, peepholes in front doors to help with security, high insulation levels, lifts, few steps elat

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  Dimplex Heaters Often used as 'Gold Medallion' storage radiators offering cost effective electric heating..
  Dining Rooms In larger properties these can always be turned into bedrooms especially in cottages to provide ground floor sleeping accommodation..
  District Nurses Nurses who will visit you in your home to see how you are and change dressings etc.
  Doctor Choosing a new doctor can be a daunting task and the best thing to do is to ask friends and family and then go direct to the practice itself and ask to be registered. Alternatively you can contact your local Health Authority direct for advice..
  Doors These should be wide enough to allow easy access for people with walking frames..
  Driveways

Generally part of the common parts.

  Dwellings In retirement housing these are self-contained units with separate front doors and are either flats, bungalows or cottages..