
Optimizing Housing for the Elderly
Homes Not Houses
Leon A. Pastalan(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. January 1991
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-1-56024-076-1 (ISBN)
Description
Discover the diverse range of housing options available to the elderly population with this excellent new book. This timely volume addresses the public policy and design and development issues that must necessarily face those concerned with housing our steadily growing elderly population. The chapters cover a broad spectrum of populations including elderly people in "aging ghettoes" in suburbia, continuing care retirement community residents, full-time recreational vehicle travelers, and the homeless elderly. The authoritative contributors go beyond descriptions of wide-ranging elderly housing options and delve into the central themes that influence them all. Optimizing Housing for the Elderly explores some common considerations such as personal security, food and medical services, independence, and social interaction, that are important determining factors when selecting a style of housing, and addresses economic questions including advice on reducing costs in popular continuing care retirement communities, currently inaccessible to lower-income elderly people. Professionals involved in any aspect of housing for the elderly will benefit from the information in this insightful book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56024-076-1 (9781560240761)
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Person
Leon A Pastalan
Content
Contents
Introduction
Supportive Housing Preferences Among the Elderly
Yanks Versus Brits: American Compared With English Retirement Homes
Can the Elderly Be Differentiated By Housing Alternatives?
Features of Lower-Cost Continuing Care Retirement Communities: Learning From Cost Analysis
Housing Preferences of Vulnerable Elders in Suburbia
Toward a Definition of Assisted-Living
Full-Timers: Who Are These Older People Who Are Living in Their RVs?
Personal Coping Strategies of the Elderly in Housing Emergencies: Clue to Interventions to Prevent Homelessness and Institutionalization
Reference Notes Included
Introduction
Supportive Housing Preferences Among the Elderly
Yanks Versus Brits: American Compared With English Retirement Homes
Can the Elderly Be Differentiated By Housing Alternatives?
Features of Lower-Cost Continuing Care Retirement Communities: Learning From Cost Analysis
Housing Preferences of Vulnerable Elders in Suburbia
Toward a Definition of Assisted-Living
Full-Timers: Who Are These Older People Who Are Living in Their RVs?
Personal Coping Strategies of the Elderly in Housing Emergencies: Clue to Interventions to Prevent Homelessness and Institutionalization
Reference Notes Included