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Bradeley retirement village: a good or bad thing?
- Author:
- JEFFERYS Margot
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 6(1), March 1996, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
During the British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference in Keele in 1995 some attenders paid a short visit to the Bradeley Retirement Village. This article gives a personal account of the British Society of Gerontology members who visited the village, and some reflections on the more fundamental issues which developments like this could raise.
Retiring gracefully
- Author:
- BAYLEY Rosalind
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 26, Winter 1996, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation - though its housing association the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - is currently developing Britain's first continuing care retirement community. By providing a high standard of both care and community facilities, the development is intended to remove many of the worries associated with growing older. The author looks at how the community will work and asks whether the Foundation's approach is likely to become a model for other providers.