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Homelessness among older people and service responses
This paper reviews the limited evidence on the causes of
homelessness in old age and on the circumstances and
problems of older homeless people, and it describes the
few services dedicated to the group.
2010
Co-housing in the Netherlands
The idea of co-housing arose at the end of the sixties in the Netherlands and can be described as having a community of people or households, where each household has its own house or apartment.
Most co-housing projects consist of rented houses, normally owned by housing cooperatives, which are wide spread in The Netherlands.
2009
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Institutions and Social Change: implementing co-operative housing and environmentally sustainable development at Christie Walk
It is evident that both the old laissez-faire approach and the more recent neo-conservative reliance on the market have failed to deliver housing for many people in Australia. The state-based welfare housing model espoused by the Australian Labor Party over the twentieth century has also been beset by problems.
2009
Village Concept Promotes Aging in Place
The US National Aging in Place Council was founded on the belief that “an overwhelming majority of older Americans want to remain in their homes for as long as possible but there is a lack of awareness of home and community-based services, which help make independent living possible.” With the needs and motivations of the aging population to remain in homes and communities, older adults have foun
2009
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Housing and health care for older people
There is an enormous impact of home conditions both on the health of an older person living with a long-term illness, and their ability to remain independent in the face of disability. Geriatricians are often called upon to give advice to older people with a new illness about where to live.
2009
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Shelter-based convalescence for homeless adults in Amsterdam: a descriptive study
Adequate support for homeless populations includes shelter and care to recuperate from illness. This is a descriptive analysis of diagnoses and use of shelter-based convalescence in a cohort of homeless adults in Amsterdam.
Over the last decades, shelter-based convalescence care programs increasingly emerged in the western world.
2009
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Working on the Margins Japan's Precariat and Working Poor
In recent years the concept of an 'homogenous middle class society' is being contested in the sociological discourse on Japan. What can be identified as a new phenomenon are the highly educated working poor. They experience an immense disparity between their expected high social status attained through education and their actual precarious working conditions.
2009
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Enabling older homeless minority women to overcome homelessness by using a life management enhancement group intervention.
This paper describes the importance of a life management enhancement group intervention for older minority women in developing personal control and self-confidence in social relationships as they overcome homelessness. Women in the treatment group showed significantly greater personal control and higher levels of self-confidence following the six-week intervention than women in the control group.
2009
The Finnish Homelessness Strategy: From a 'Staircase' Model to a "Housing First' Approach to Tackling Long-term Homelessness
This paper reviews the Finnish government’s recently established
Programme to Reduce Long-Term Homelessness, which is attempting to halve long-term homelessness over the period 2008 to 2011.
It outlines the current homeless situation in Finland and describes the development of the present system of provision.
2009
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Living Alone in Australia: trends in sole living and characteristics of those who live alone
In 2006 almost two million adults were living alone in Australia.
2009
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."