Health
Aging, health and place in residential care facilities in Beijing, China
In recent years, residential care has become an alternative option for elder care in Beijing, China. Little is known, however, about the well-being of elderly residents and the relationship between their health and living in residential care facilities.
2011
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Evaluation of the extra care housing initiative: PSSRU technical report
A central principle underlying the policy of recent UK governments has been to help people maintain their independence in their own homes for as long as possible. More recently, policies have emphasised the personalisation of services, with the aim of giving people greater choice and control over the services they receive.
2011
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The health impacts of housing: toward a policy-relevant research agenda
Housing is central to our lives. And while it may be seen on one level as principally about shelter, housing importantly provides other benefits. Affordable, appropriate, and adequate housing is argued to have a marked impact on people’s health, their access to labour markets, and an array of other benefits.
2011
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Strategic Housing for Older People: Planning, designing and delivering housing that older people want
Our response to an ageing society is shaped by widely-accepted principles.
2011
The Nordic Model: evolutions in care and space for the dependant ageing in Sweden with some relevance to Denmark and Norway
During the 20th century, the Nordic countries, Denmark with Faroe Islands and Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, have realized five different but similar-looking welfare states, in which social services are distributed in an egalitarian and uniform way.
This paper focuses on eldercare and architecture intended to be used for eldercare.
2011
The effect of housing on the mental health of older people: the impact of lifetime housing history in Whitehall II
Self-reported mental health generally improves by early old age, but social class differences in anxiety and depression increase with age. In this UK study, social inequalities in both self-reported mental health and general health increased in early old age, as the rate of improvement in mental health was less for those in the lower employment grades.
2011
Breaking the Mould: Re-visioning older people’s housing
This UK report describes a number of the business opportunities that an ageing population brings.
2011
Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
The idea that the environment in which older adults live profoundly impacts their lives has a long history in gerontology. Research has
focused less on the macro environment – neighbourhood/community, region, or urban-rural localities.
2011
The New Homelessness Revisited
The ‘new homelessness’ has drawn sustained attention from scholars over the past three decades. Definitional inconsistencies and data limitations rendered early work during this period largely speculative in nature. Thanks to conceptual, theoretical, and methodological progress, however, the research literature now provides a fuller understanding of homelessness.
2010
Housing and Health in Older People: Ageing in Place
Housing has a clear impact on the health of occupants. Affordable and appropriate housing protects people from hazards and promotes good health and wellbeing.
In this paper we briefly review the demography and housing patterns of older people in New Zealand.
2010
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