“…Frode Kann, Bjørg Langset and Per Medby Socio-economic cost of accidentals falls on stairs in residential buildings NIBR Report: 2010:23 The project explores the economic cost of accidental falls and how installing a lift could reduce accident frequency. The background for the project is an earlier report on the socio-economic gains of universal design (Medby et al 2006). Some of the measures required for implementing the policy to increase the number of universally designed homes are likely to be relatively expensive, not least when the measure includes the installation of lifts.…”