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Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities: evidence from England
- Authors:
- LIDDLE Jennifer, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 34(9), 2014, pp.1601-1629.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article providing empirical evidence concerning the relative age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities. Adopting a new definition – ‘underpinned by a commitment to respect and social inclusion, an age-friendly community is engaged in a strategic and ongoing process to facilitate active ageing by optimising the community's physical and social environments and its supporting infrastructure’ – the article analyses the age-friendliness of one retirement community in England. The Longitudinal Study of Ageing in a Retirement Community (LARC) encompassed two waves of a survey with residents, interviews and focus groups with stakeholders involved in staffing, managing and designing the community, and other qualitative data collected from residents. Reviewing the different data sources, the article argues that purpose-built retirement communities have the potential to be age-friendly settings but might better involve residents in a regular cycle of planning, implementation, evaluation and continual improvement if they are to facilitate active ageing. In addition, more clarity is needed on how such developments can better fit with the age-friendly agenda, particularly in terms of their capacity to support ageing in place, the accessibility of the wider neighbourhood, opportunities for intergenerational interactions, and the training of staff to work with older people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Acceptance in the domestic environment: the experience of senior housing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender seniors
- Author:
- SULLIVAN Kathleen M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 57(2-4), 2014, pp.235-250.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The social environment impacts the ability of older adults to interact successfully with their community and age-in-place. This study asked, for the first time, residents of existing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) senior living communities to explain why they chose to live in those communities and what, if any, benefit the community afforded them. Focus groups were conducted at 3 retirement communities. Analysis found common categories across focus groups that explain the phenomenon of LGBT senior housing. Acceptance is paramount for LGBT seniors and social networks expanded, contrary to socioemotional selectivity theory. Providers are encouraged to develop safe spaces for LGBT seniors. (Publisher abstract)
Impediments to community-based care for people ageing with intellectual disability in rural New South Wales
- Authors:
- WARK Stuart, HUSSAIN Rafat, EDWARDS Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 22(6), 2014, pp.623-633.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The emerging phenomenon of ageing with an intellectual disability has become subject to an increasing research focus in recent years. However, there remains little knowledge regarding the specific impediments that community workers face in supporting this cohort. The aims of the current study were to identify the major factors that, direct care staff believe, have most impact upon individuals ageing with an intellectual disability in the community. A three-round Delphi project was conducted across rural areas of New South Wales in Australia with 31 disability support workers to gain their perspectives on the main impediments facing a person ageing with intellectual disability. The 2010 study identified that the issue of ageing with an intellectual disability was presenting significant problems for community-based service delivery to this group of people. The panel identified 25 different impediments to the provision of support. A thematic analysis of the items indicated three main themes of ‘funding’, ‘training’ and ‘access to services’. By identifying these impediments to supporting people ageing with an intellectual disability in the community, both services and government funding bodies have the ability to plan to overcome both current and future problem areas. This identification of impediments may facilitate individuals to receive more appropriate assistance, which in turn may lead to an improved quality of life and maintenance of a community-based placement rather than premature admission to the congregate-care system. This study is particularly timely, given that Australia is in the midst of implementing a National Disability Insurance Scheme, and is an opportunity for all levels of government to agree on the mechanisms to appropriately assist individuals with an intellectual disability to continue to be supported in the community as they age. (Publisher abstract)
Using housing wealth and other assets to pay for care
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 82
- Place of publication:
- London
A rapid review on using personal assets, including housing wealth, to pay for care. The literature reviewed covers: wealth overviews and the wealth lifecycle; wealth inequality; housing as wealth; releasing equity from housing wealth; attitudes to housing, wealth and the release of equity; inheritance; the relationship between health and wealth and the trade-off between home ownership and welfare provision; housing and wealth as contributors to the funding of long term care; and international and comparative studies. The review argues that older people would prefer not to use their hard won housing assets to pay for long term care but, given the unacceptability of a pooled system either from general taxation, a compulsory up-front 'insurance' premium on retirement or a 'death tax', a scheme to pay for long term care as the need arises becomes necessary. It concludes that the care cap and universal deferred payment scheme provisions of the Care Act 2014 may well be the most acceptable way forward. (Edited publisher abstract)
Moving beyond ‘ageing in place’: older people's dislikes about their home and neighbourhood environments as a motive for wishing to move
- Authors:
- HILLCOAT-NALLETAMBY Sarah, OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 34(10), 2014, pp.1771-1796.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This paper takes a critical perspective to the notion of ageing in place by examining older people's dislikes about, rather than levels of satisfaction with their home and neighbourhood environments, and establishing whether such dislikes influence a desire to move. Analysis of the 2004 Living in Wales Survey shows that despite high levels of residential satisfaction, a significant proportion of older people do wish to move. Logistic regression results indicate this desire is strongly associated with dislikes about their immediate home environment, more than neighbourhood factors. Contemplating a move in later life may be shaped more by a desire to ‘attach’ to people, than to remain in situ to preserve an attachment to place. (Edited publisher abstract)
Retirement housing 2014
- Author:
- KNIGHT FRANK
- Publisher:
- Knight Frank
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines people’s attitudes to housing in later years and to retirement housing more specifically. Drawing on the findings from a survey of more than 700 people across Britain aged 55 and over, it shows that more than a quarter of respondents are likely to consider moving to some sort of retirement housing in the future, suggests that millions of people could be considering retirement housing. The report outlines the current housing crisis, highlighting the demographic trends and the key characteristics of the UK market for retirement housing, arguing that the current delivery of this type of housing is not keeping pace with demand. The report concludes that opening up the supply and choice of properties for this age-group will help ease the current constrictions in the housing chain, freeing up more family sized homes for growing families while ensuring that older people have the option to move to properties in which they can live independently for as long as they can – with the reassurance of some care available should they need it. (Edited publisher abstract)
Alternate housing models for older people with disabilities: their clientele, structures and resources in relation to the quality of and satisfaction with care delivery
- Authors:
- DUBUC Nicole, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 34(9), 2014, pp.1575-1600.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This paper reports on the study of a subsidy programme that was established in Quebec for alternate housing models (AHMs), which allows private and community organisations to offer housing services within the framework of a partnership with public health-care services. The research objectives were: (a) to compare how facility characteristics and services provided by AHMs and nursing homes (NHs) differ; (b) to examine the personal characteristics of residents living in AHMs; and (c) to compare residents with similar characteristics within AHMs and NHs in terms of unmet needs, quality of care, satisfaction with care and services, and psycho-social adaptation to the residence. A cross-sectional study was undertaken with individually matched groups to assess whether AHMs meet the needs of elders in a way similar to NHs. Overall, residents in both groups had moderate to severe levels of disability and about 60 per cent had mild to severe cognitive problems. While their general features were heterogeneous, the AHMs were more comfortable and homelike than the NHs. The quality of and satisfaction with care was appropriate in both settings, although AHMs performed better. Only one-quarter of residents in both settings, however, evidenced a good level of psycho-social adaptation to their residence. This partnership approach is a good strategy to provide a useful range of housing types in communities that can respond to the needs of elders with moderate to severe disabilities. (Publisher abstract)
The evolving UK market for telecare
- Author:
- AKTIVE CONSORTIUM
- Publisher:
- Inventya Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- Daresbury
This paper provides an overview of the changing UK market for telecare, examining the current drivers, the spectrum of customers of telecare solutions, the evolving technology development and service models, and the evolving retail and business to customer business models. Telecare is central for many older and vulnerable people living with cognitive and/or physical impairment, and who are often managing chronic healthcare conditions. It incorporates a mix of personal (wearable) and environmental sensors used throughout (and in some cases beyond) an individual’s home, and whose data transmission is monitored remotely in real-time to ensure the safety and security of the individual. The paper utilises insight from a sociological study of selected older people living in their own homes who were prone to falls and cognitive decline, and from the observation of how telecare products and services were used to support independent living. (Edited publisher abstract)
In the Best Interest of the (Adult) Child: ideas about kinship care of older adults
- Authors:
- JENNINGS Tezra, PERRY Tam E., VALERIANI Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 17(1), 2014, pp.37-50.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article uses a qualitative, ethnographic approach to examine the experiences of older adults and their kin, as the older adult engages in relocation. Studies looking at caregiving by kin for older adults highlight burdens for the adult child. This study offers a life course perspective on kinship care, analysing older adults’ decisions to move. It was found that many older adults are strongly influenced by the desire to not be solely cared for by their kin, as well as to select housing near their existing social network, which might exclude kin. In conclusion, policy implications are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
The NORC supportive services model: the role of social capital in community aging initiatives
- Author:
- IVERY Jan M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 22(4), 2014, pp.451-471.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
Access to community-based programmes and services that address housing, physical and emotional health, well-being, and social interaction is essential in order to achieve a goodness of fit between adults and their environment as they transition into late adulthood. Social capital can be used to facilitate and nurture the relationships necessary to create community features that collectively benefit residents. This article describes how the social capital features of the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) supportive services model that can be used to enhance the viability of community ageing initiatives. Implications for civic engagement and participation among older adults are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)