[Suitable housing--experiences of counseling facilities in Austria and Germany].

Abstract

The article describes the experiences made by Austrian and German counseling agencies dealing with housing adaptation with technical appliances for elderly people. The collected data from a questioning of counseling institutions, most of them still pilot projects, are assessed and special focus is given to the organization and institutionalization of the counseling agencies, to the access to the institutions, to the process and program of counseling, to obstacles and hindrances, to the costs and financing of the institutions or the adaptations.