United States of America

Strategies to Meet the Housing Needs of Older Adults

Many adults, as they age and their abilities change, find that shortcomings in their homes and communities can limit where they are able to live. Some of these limitations are related to features of the housing stock itself, while others are rooted in community characteristics that do not accommodate an aging population.
2010

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

Moving Beyond Place: Aging in Community

Western culture has constructed a continuum that positions institutional long-term care at one end of a spectrum, and an idealized vision of aging in place at the other. The challenge is to escape this false choice. This US article looks at a third way of aging - "aging in community".
2009

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

Homelessness Among Elderly Persons

When thinking about homelessness, the elderly people issue doesn’t immediately come to our mind.
2009

Aging in Place, Housing and the Law

“Aging in place” refers to the desire of older people to stay in their own homes and communities in spite of encroaching infirmities, and it is an increasingly important aspect of public policy. This movement has gained impetus from the US Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v.
2008

Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing

The 2007 ULI/Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues addressed a topic of increasing interest to the affordable housing community: What can be done to make environmentally sustainable affordable housing the standard practice of the day? Pairing green building with affordable housing is a natural fit.
2008

Perceptions of Living Alone Among Older Adult Women

This exploratory study examines older women’s perceptions of living alone. In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of people who live alone, particularly older adults.
2008

Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Category of Long-Term Care Options for the Elderly Poor

The focus of this paper is on a category of affordable housing arrangements that has emerged to help low-income older persons cope with their long-term care needs in their communities. These purposely planned or adapted housing options make it possible for their occupants to benefit from both affordable shelter (i.e., room and board) and long-term care.
2008

The World Health Organization Age-Friendly Cities Project in Portland, Oregon, USA

In 2006, researchers at the Institute on Aging in the School of Community Health at Portland State University were invited to collaborate with the World Health Organization on its “Age-Friendly Cities Project.” This project was designed to identify indicators of an age-friendly city based on the views of older adults, informal caregivers, and service providers.
2007
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