Ten units have been designed for occupancy by handicapped residents, seven of them for people in wheelchairs and three for hearing-impaired or sight-impaired residents.

Metro Transit also provides Access-A-Bus service which is a dial-a-ride service for elderly and handicapped residents in the region.

The main opponents in the land-use battles were the Allegheny Community College and a local developer who planned to build subsidised apartments with 25 per cent reserved for handicapped residents.

The Eatontown Lions Club built a home ramp for a handicapped local resident and rebuilt a halfway house for women.

Hill House caters for 12 mentally handicapped residents with learning difficulties.

The program matches volunteers, many of them recently retired, with home-bound or handicapped elderly residents of Scarsdale, Eastchester, Edgemont, Yonkers and Hartsdale.

In some cities, snow clearing for elder and handicapped residents counts towards community service hours assigned as a punishment for minor offences.

He now lives with his parents at home, but because of the trust program, in July he and 14 other handicapped residents will move into a new supervised housing complex.

The play featured Josh Mostel, Joe Grifasi and Christine Estabrook as mentally handicapped residents of a cooperative apartment.

By 1983, American Ambulette, in conjunction with the county, developed a pilot program to provide transportation to physically handicapped residents.