The need for a common language to describe older people's housing

Author:
HOUSING CORPORATION
Publisher:
Housing Corporation
Publication year:
2008
Pagination:
3p.
Place of publication:
London

A discussion paper from phase one of the Towards a Common Currency project noted that elderly people are often confused by the definitions and descriptions used to describe housing and other support. In this part of the project researchers discovered that most social housing landlords did not give sufficiently detailed descriptions of housing developments or schemes to elderly people or those acting on their behalf.

Subject terms:
older people, social housing, communication;
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Series name:
(In Brief; September 2008)

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