A woman who is not a senior but is currently living in an aged care facility will be one of five residents to move into a new unit that was built for people with a disability.
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Work is now completed on five units Housing Plus has built as specialist disability accommodation in Bletchington Street for about $2 million.
Housing Plus CEO David Fisher said the majority of the units would have two bedrooms so there would be one room for the person with a disability and another room for carers, family members or visitors.
"There's many people living with disabilities in Orange and in some cases maybe living in accommodation that's not purpose built for their needs," he said.
"These units here are specifically built for people with a disability and it will make a much better quality of life for them."
Mr Fisher said wide doorways and even surfaces made the units wheelchair accessible, there would be bench-tops that could be adjusted to the required height for each resident while power and light switches as well as how doors are opened were also taken into account.
"We expect the first two tenants to move in over the next couple of months and shortly after that the complex will be fully occupied," he said.
Tenants will bring their own furniture and were selected through an application process through Housing Plus after meeting the criteria of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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About $800,000 of the funding came through a federal government grant and Member for Calare Andrew Gee said the units are state of the art and feature the latest technology.
"Hopefully this model can be rolled out across NSW and across the rest of Australia because this is a first for country NSW and probably country Australia as well," Mr Gee said.
"I think it's important that we as a community give people the very best accommodation and standard of living that we can, these are people with disabilities and they need to be looked after.
"It recognises that people with disabilities have different needs, everyone is different and some people would be best placed in a group home situation but not everyone so this just gives people another option on top of that and promotes independent living."
He said people could live there without a carer but there was room if carers were needed.
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