The Netherlands
The Long Term Care Revolution: A study of innovative models to support older people with disabilities in the Netherlands
This paper provides relevant information about the Netherlands on how support is provided to older adults in need of long term care in their own homes or alternative homes.
2013
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Places That Matter: Place Attachment and Wellbeing of Older Antillean Migrants in the Netherlands
It has been argued that attachment to place increases wellbeing in old age. Feeling ‘in place’ can increase an older person’s wellbeing. For older migrants it can be a challenge to live in-between cultures. The objective of the article is to explore how older Antillean migrants derive a sense of wellbeing from attachment to their everyday places.
2012
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Housing Preferences of an Ageing Population: Investigation in the Diversity Among Dutch Older Adults
Mobility on the housing market strongly declines with age. In contrast to younger age groups, older adults show a tendency to ‘stay put’. There is little evidence whether this immobility of older adults is due to choice or to constraint.
2012
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Loneliness and the exchange of social support among older adults in Spain and the Netherlands
Previous research has shown that exchanges of support within social networks reduce the loneliness of older adults.
2012
Social participation of community living older persons: importance, determinants and opportunities
The purpose of the paper is to identify factors that hinder or support the social participation of older persons living in the community. The importance of older people’s engagement in physical, social and productive activities was studied. Opportunities for older people to socialize in the housing environment were explored. These tasks were carried out through literature review.
2011
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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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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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Apartments for Life in Australia Lessons for Australia from Humanitas in the Netherlands
The Humanitas Foundation in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has attracted international renown because of its achievements in developing the innovative Apartments for Life model of housing and care for older people. Under the leadership of Dr Hans Becker, Chair of the Humanitas Foundation, the rst Apartments for Life complex opened in the mid 1990s.
2009
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Factors in social interaction in cohousing communities
Cohousing communities can be considered alternatives for living independently in old age. However, currently the factors that influence the success of these communities are unclear. Based on literature and case studies gathered by students a new interaction- model was created that shows the relevant factors on an individual level.
2009
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Trends in Housing for Older People - Conference Report
Members of the HOPE network assembled in Copenhagen on May 8th 2008 for a conference hosted by KAB.
The aim of the conference was to examine trends in housing for older people by focusing on two main themes:
• Housing requirements of older people in the next fi ve to ten years
• What can housing companies do to help older people remain in their own homes for as long as possible?
The conference w
2008
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