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Housing and care for older people: life in an English purpose-built retirement village
- Authors:
- BERNARD Miriam, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 27(4), July 2007, pp.533-554.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Retirement communities are a relatively new long-term accommodation and care option in the United Kingdom. Policy makers and providers endorse the proposition that they are suited for the accommodation of both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people, although comparatively little is known about what it is actually like to live in such communities, about whether they cater adequately for older people with a wide spectrum of needs and abilities, or if they provide acceptable solutions to older people's housing or care needs. This paper addresses these questions by reporting the findings of an independently funded three-year study of a new retirement village, Berryhill, in the north Midlands of England. The paper examines the background to this and similar developments, details how the study was carried out, and then examines what it was like to live at Berryhill. It focuses on the housing and care aspects, and explores the residents' motivations for moving to the village; their views about the accommodation; and their use of and satisfaction with the social and leisure amenities. The health and care needs of residents and the formal and informal supports are also featured. The conclusion discusses whether the village can truly be a ‘home for life’ in the face of increasing frailty, and whether or not these new models of accommodation and care can indeed cater for both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people.
Housing initiatives for older people: papers from a seminar organised by the Centre for Social Gerontology, University of Keele ... 10-12 April 1989
- Editors:
- BERNARD Miriam, FLYNN Tony
- Publisher:
- Beth Johnson Foundation/University of Keele. Centre for Social Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 87p.
- Place of publication:
- Stoke-on-Trent
Contains papers on: the role of the Housing Corporation; housing needs of elderly people in ordinary housing; housing elderly Asian people; sheltered housing and the role of the private sector; and retirement villages and communities in the USA and Europe. Also looks at local authority initiatives in Glasgow, Strathclyde and Stoke-on-Trent.