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Downsizing in later life and appropriate housing size across our lifetime: how an unholy trinity of ageism, self-denial and misinterpretation are shaping housing policies for older people
- Authors:
- KNEALE Dylan, BAMFORD Sally-Marie, SINCLAIR David
- Publisher:
- Hanover
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Staines
This paper is one of a series of nine 'think pieces' commissioned by Hanover from think tanks across the political spectrum. In this paper the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK) calls for a fresh look at under-occupation and housing in later life. Asking older people alone to downsize is ageist: we should be discouraging under-occupation through life. Older people will move if they are offered housing options that will improve their quality of life and potentially improve their health and social care outcomes in later years. Local authorities have seen retirement housing as largely for those with existing care needs, exacerbating the sector’s image problem. We need to build more homes if we want to encourage downsizing; otherwise we could make things worse for first-time buyers if they and older people chase similar smaller homes. (Edited publisher abstract)
What's in a name? Similarities and differences in international terms and meanings for older peoples' housing with services
- Authors:
- HOWE Anna L., JONES Andrew E., TILSE Cheryl
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 33(4), 2013, pp.547-578.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The diversity of terms and meanings relating to housing with services for older people confounds systematic analysis, especially in international comparative research. This paper presents an analysis of over 90 terms identified in literature from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand reporting types of housing with services under the umbrella of ‘service integrated housing’ (SIH), defined as all forms of accommodation built specifically for older people in which the housing provider takes responsibility for delivery of one or more types of support and care services. A small number of generic terms covering housing for people in later life, home and community care, and institutional care are reviewed first to define the scope of SIH. Review of the remainder identifies different terms applied to similar types of SIH, similar terms applied to different types, and different terms that distinguish different types. Terms are grouped into those covering SIH focused on lifestyle and recreation, those offering only support services, and those offering care as well as support. Considerable commonality is found in underlying forms of SIH, and common themes emerge in discussion of drivers of growth and diversification, formal policies and programmes, and symbolic meanings. In establishing more commonality than difference, clarification of terminology advances policy debate, programme development, research and knowledge transfer within and between countries. (Publisher abstract)
Identifying and applying early indicators of concern in care services for people with learning disabilities and older people: the abuse in care project
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF HULL. Centre for Applied Research and Evaluation
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 21
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This small scale research initiative aimed develop an information-led process that might help health and social care practitioners to examine their early concerns about care services for people with learning disabilities and older people with significant care needs who lived in staffed settings such as care homes and group homes. Focus groups with staff in Dundee identified six main areas of concern: concerns about management and leadership; staff skills, knowledge and practice; residents behaviours and wellbeing; the service resisting the involvement of external people and isolating individuals; the way in which services are planned and delivered; and the quality of basic care and the environment. Barriers were also identified relating to practitioners sharing their concerns about services, including ICT compatibility problems, and the need for procedures, tools and processes. (Original abstract)
Community approaches to the siting of psychiatric housing
- Authors:
- ZIPPAY Allison, SON Esther
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 21(1/2), 2013, pp.87-104.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
This article examines community planning and communications approaches used by mental health housing organisations in the siting process for community-based psychiatric housing. Drawing on interviews with 169 housing administrators in seven US states, it assesses variations in the approach, content, timing, and modes of agency communications with community leaders, neighbours, and local citizens, and the association of these communications methods with initial and longer-term community responses to the site. The agencies in the survey included private nonprofit, public and not for-profit organisations. Eighty-three percent (n = 139) were involved in providing independent as well as shared, supervised housing. The study provides evidence to inform practice for the development of community approaches to the siting of psychiatric housing. (Edited publisher abstract)