Health

Partnerships Among Community Development, Public Health, And Health Care Could Improve The Well-Being Of Low-Income People

Community development is an enterprise that helps low-income people and communities by giving them access to financing and other tools to build affordable housing, start businesses, and build community facilities such as charter schools, health clinics, and child care centers. In short, community development helps make struggling communities more vibrant economically and stronger socially.
2011

Lifetime Neighbourhoods

As we grow older we are more likely to spend more time at home, and where we live is an important determinant of our well-being.
2011

The Utilization of Home Care by the Elderly in Brazil's Primary Health Care System

The aging of the population represents a challenge to governments around the world, which are faced with the task of designing and implementing national strategies for elderly care, including improving primary health care through home health care systems and social networks.
2011

Precarious housing and health inequalities: what are the links?

This exploratory study asks two broad questions: • Does poor health lead to precarious housing? • Does precarious housing (including affordability, suitability and security of tenure) affect people’s health? Older private renters (that is, people older than 65 years) were particularly vulnerable to unaffordable housing: half were in housing affordability stress.
2011

Ageing in Place in the European Union

Ageing in Place in the EU context tends to focus on the provision of support and services to older persons to enable them to remain in their own homes for as long as they can, and in environments that are enabling.
2011

Housing Loneliness and Health

This Essay asks whether housing, loneliness and health are connected in contemporary Australia, and if they are, is it a nexus that can be addressed positively through housing policy.
2011

Living Arrangements of Older Adults in China: The Interplay Among Preferences, Realities, and Health

This article uses the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey to examine the dynamics of living arrangements among the elderly in China. The author explores what factors are related to living arrangement preference. In addition, the author looks at a relatively unexplored measure— “living arrangement concordance”—having a match between preferred and actual living arrangements.
2011

All Party Parliamentary Group on housing and care for Older People - Living Well At Home Inquiry

Amidst the national interest in the growing need for care and support for the UK's ageing population, this report highlights the importance of the home in the current debate.
2011

“Shanghai Age Friendly City Housing Renovation Project” Pilot to Renovate Homes for Elderly Residents

Habitat for Humanity China is set to launch its first project in the commercial and financial hub of China after signing a partnership agreement for a pilot project to improve the living conditions of elderly people in Shanghai. This project, similar to one in Hong Kong, HFH China and Habitat volunteers will renovate or repair and generally tidy up homes for up to 20 elderly families in the initi
2010

The Wicking Project outcomes: Supporting older people living with alcohol related brain injury

The Wicking project developed and evaluated a specialized model of residential care to support a group of older people living with alcohol-related brain injury (ARBI) and challenging behavior. The aim of the project was to determine the effectiveness of this model at improving participant life quality and well-being.
2010
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