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Village life: independence, loneliness, and quality of life in retirement villages with extra care
- Author:
- BEACH Brian
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 37
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the findings of a survey of residents of seven retirement villages offering extra care support. The report explores whether extra care support can promote greater independence and provide greater choice in planning for later life; reduce social isolation and promote residents’ quality of life. Responses were received by 201 out of a total of 743 residents, representing a response rate of 27.1%. Response are discussed in the following areas: residents' motivations to move into housing with care, and how this reflected on the concepts of independence and control; residents’ experience of loneliness and social isolation; and an analysis of the quality of life in extra housing using the using CASP and OPQOL measures. The final section of the report compares the findings with a sample of older people living in private households in the community. The research found that the average person living in a retirement village experienced half the amount of loneliness (12.17%) than those in the community (22.83%). It also found that living in a retirement village can promote greater independence and provide greater choice in planning for later life and that the communal environment has the potential to reduce social isolation. The report calls on the government to identify ways of working with the private sector to stimulate the building of new good quality retirement housing and to encourage people in early older age to consider making such a move. (Edited publisher abstract)