[2][3] Examples of home modifications include installing ramps and rails, altering kitchen and bathroom areas (relocating switches and lowering bench heights), installing emergency alarms.
[4] There are a number of words in common use that are confused with home modifications.
[5] Other more closely related terms that are interchanged with home modifications in literature include combinations of home/housing/environment/residential coupled with modification/adaptation/intervention.
[6] However these terms have in common a context of housing, health and care for people with disability or impairment.
[7] Home modifications are also the subject of ongoing public health and economics research[8] because of their potential to support aging in place and substitute for caregiving.