Abstract
Housing adaptation for elderly or disabled households is a recent social protection policy in Spain. Different administrations have introduced support programs for low-resource households to improve their homes, promoting independent living and aging in place. However, these programs are still limited. Does household expenditure fill the gap? Kurt Lewin’s ideas about adaptive behavior (Lewin, 1951) underpin this investigation about privately funded home adaptations. Microdata analysis of the last Spanish survey on disabilities (EDAD2008) is used to explain how some home expenditure decisions are in practice adaptive behaviors that complement public programs to cover the most basic environmental needs.
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