Collaborative Housing, Ageing and Social Care
Lessons from Europe
Policy Press
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 2025
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-4473-7582-1 (ISBN)
Description
As ageing populations continue to grow worldwide, the increased need for adequate housing and social care comes into stark focus. This multi-disciplinary book explores how emerging citizen-led innovations in Collaborative Housing and care are challenging mainstream ways of living and ageing.
Combining academic theory with practice, the book demonstrates the far-reaching impacts Collaborative Housing with care can have on independence, agency and wellbeing in later life. With contributions from France, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, it offers insights into the key challenges and opportunities associated with developing and sustaining models of Collaborative Housing with diverse forms of care and support over the life-course.
Essential reading for academics, practitioners and policy makers in housing, planning, social care, design and social gerontology, this book proposes a renewed focus on non-paternalistic forms of social and housing care that speak directly to older people's needs, and that work against the marketisation of care and towards a community-led and co-managed approach in later life housing for all.
Combining academic theory with practice, the book demonstrates the far-reaching impacts Collaborative Housing with care can have on independence, agency and wellbeing in later life. With contributions from France, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, it offers insights into the key challenges and opportunities associated with developing and sustaining models of Collaborative Housing with diverse forms of care and support over the life-course.
Essential reading for academics, practitioners and policy makers in housing, planning, social care, design and social gerontology, this book proposes a renewed focus on non-paternalistic forms of social and housing care that speak directly to older people's needs, and that work against the marketisation of care and towards a community-led and co-managed approach in later life housing for all.
Reviews / Votes
"This book hugely increases our understanding of how housing and care can be better organised through collaborative action and mutual support, drawing on important lessons from our European neighbours." Lord Richard Best"This important book explores a much-needed innovative approach to the critical issue of caring for our older population: the role of collaborative housing in providing care." Anne Glass, University of North Carolina Wilmington (Emeritus)
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 161 mm
Width: 241 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-7582-1 (9781447375821)
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Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia | Aimee Felstead | Jim Hudson
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Lessons from Europe
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Lessons from Europe
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Persons
Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia is an urban sociologist, editor at the Radical Housing Journal and Senior Researcher Associate at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Aimee Felstead is Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield
Jim Hudson is Senior Research Associate at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Misa Izuhara is Professor of Social Policy at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Kath Scanlon is Distinguished Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Secretary of the European Network for Housing Research
Karen West is Professor of Social Policy and Ageing at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Aimee Felstead is Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield
Jim Hudson is Senior Research Associate at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Misa Izuhara is Professor of Social Policy at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Kath Scanlon is Distinguished Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Secretary of the European Network for Housing Research
Karen West is Professor of Social Policy and Ageing at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Content
1. Collaborative Housing, ageing and social care - Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, Aimee Felstead, Jim Hudson, Misa Izuhara, Kath Scanlon and Karen West
2. Senior cohousing as grass-roots housing and care innovation for ageing cities: the case of Can 70 in Barcelona - Lluvi Farre Montala and Daniel Lopez Gomez
3. Co-caring as later life solidarity in French collective housing - Marina Casula and Lisa Buchter
4. Collaborative Housing as a social care model in the UK - Karen West, Jim Hudson, Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, Aimee Felstead, Misa Izuhara and Kath Scanlon
5. The limits of care in senior cohousing in Spain - Marta Pi-Martin, Yolanda Bodoque-Puerta and Dolors Comas-d'Argemir
6. Conceptualising the continuum of Collaborative Housing, care and ageing: in conversation with Maria Brenton and Sheila Peace - Maria Brenton and Sheila Peace, with Misa Izuhara and Karen West
7. Intergenerational caring in Collaborative Housing: older adults and mutual care in France - Gizem Aksuemer and Michel Lussault
8. Agency and self-organised care experiences in Sweden's Collaborative Housing for the second half of life - Ivette Arroyo, Norma Montesino and Marianne Granbom
9. Towards ecosystems of care: in conversation with Mayte Sancho - Mayte Sancho, with Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia and Kath Scanlon
10. The clustered living approach in the Netherlands - Darinka Czischke and Conny Moons
11. Housing and care policy futures: in conversation with Maite Arrondo and Jeremy Porteus - Maite Arrondo and Jeremy Porteus, with Aimee Felstead and Jim Hudson
12. Collaboration at the centre of housing and social care - Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, Aimee Felstead, Jim Hudson, Misa Izuhara, Kath Scanlon and Karen West
2. Senior cohousing as grass-roots housing and care innovation for ageing cities: the case of Can 70 in Barcelona - Lluvi Farre Montala and Daniel Lopez Gomez
3. Co-caring as later life solidarity in French collective housing - Marina Casula and Lisa Buchter
4. Collaborative Housing as a social care model in the UK - Karen West, Jim Hudson, Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, Aimee Felstead, Misa Izuhara and Kath Scanlon
5. The limits of care in senior cohousing in Spain - Marta Pi-Martin, Yolanda Bodoque-Puerta and Dolors Comas-d'Argemir
6. Conceptualising the continuum of Collaborative Housing, care and ageing: in conversation with Maria Brenton and Sheila Peace - Maria Brenton and Sheila Peace, with Misa Izuhara and Karen West
7. Intergenerational caring in Collaborative Housing: older adults and mutual care in France - Gizem Aksuemer and Michel Lussault
8. Agency and self-organised care experiences in Sweden's Collaborative Housing for the second half of life - Ivette Arroyo, Norma Montesino and Marianne Granbom
9. Towards ecosystems of care: in conversation with Mayte Sancho - Mayte Sancho, with Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia and Kath Scanlon
10. The clustered living approach in the Netherlands - Darinka Czischke and Conny Moons
11. Housing and care policy futures: in conversation with Maite Arrondo and Jeremy Porteus - Maite Arrondo and Jeremy Porteus, with Aimee Felstead and Jim Hudson
12. Collaboration at the centre of housing and social care - Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, Aimee Felstead, Jim Hudson, Misa Izuhara, Kath Scanlon and Karen West