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Making the case for retirement villages
- Editor:
- CROUCHER Karen
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
There has been a growing policy emphasis on promoting independence for older people, offering them choices, and improving their quality of life. Retirement villages are a relatively new type of provision in the UK, and data measuring their impact on residents’ health status and quality of life, or on the demand for other health and social care services, is limited. This report reviews the evidence to date on the impact of retirement villages. The report explores five key themes: the potential of retirement villages to enhancing older people’s choices for independent living; the particular benefits of larger developments and the potential for economies of scale; how retirement villages can be made accessible and affordable for a range of older people; the potential impact of retirement villages on local health and social services; and the impact of retirement villages on local communities. The evidence indicates that that retirement villages, although relatively new to the UK, have great potential to address main policy objectives around promoting independence, choice and quality of life for older people. This report is intended for all those engaged with commissioning and developing services for older people.
Telling the story of Hartfields: a new retirement village for the twenty-first century
- Authors:
- CROUCHER Karen, BEVAN Mark
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 40p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
In 2004, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, Hartlepool Borough Council, and other local partners started working together to develop Hartfields, a new retirement village in Hartlepool, with funding from the Department of Health's Extra Care Housing Fund and the Housing Corporation. Opened in 2008, Hartfields is a mixed tenure development with 242 units of one and two bedroom accommodation, intended to be an independent living setting but with the capacity to accommodate people with high levels of need for care and support, and primarily for people aged over 60 with a strong connection to Hartlepool. This evaluation study aimed to track major decisions and developments in the planning and implementation of Hartfields, to describe and analyse challenges and constraints encountered and strategies used to overcome these, and to explore ideas and expectations on housing with care for older people. Data was collected through documents and plans, semistructured interviews with key staff in the partner agencies, and focus groups and interviews with residents. The report covers the strategic context and housing needs and provision in Hartlepool, the key decisions and challenges and working in partnership, the early life of Hartfields as a new community, and key learning points and future challenges, concluding that Hartfields is a successful scheme.
Living at Hartrigg Oaks: residents' views of the UK's first continuing care retirement community
- Authors:
- CROUCHER Karen, PLEACE Nicholas, BEVAN Mark
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 80p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Hartrigg Oaks is the first example in the UK of a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), developed by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. On a 21-acre site in York, 152 bungalows are clustered around a central complex containing amenities, including a library, cafe and restaurant, and a residential care home known as ‘The Oaks’. As a CCRC, Hartrigg Oaks is designed to provide a housing option for older people in which they may live independently for many years. At any given point in time, most of the residents in Hartrigg Oaks will be living largely, or wholly, independent lives. The extensive care and support services provided at Hartrigg Oaks are primarily designed to allow its residents to remain in their bungalows. Should their care needs become more pronounced they can remain on the Hartrigg Oaks site within ‘The Oaks’ registered care home, which offers both interim and permanent care. Hartrigg Oaks is financed through an insurance based model, residents pay into a communal financial pool through an annual fee. The care and support services that Hartrigg Oaks provides are then financed through this pool. Through using this approach, residents can be offered the option of paying an annual fee that will not increase according to their use of care services.