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Housing Design for an Increasingly Older Population
Redefining Assisted Living for the Mentally and Physically Frail
Victor Regnier(0)
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A comprehensive guide to designing housing for the world's aging population.
The dilemma of helping older people maintain their independence through better housing with services is growing. This book presents innovative solutions for those who create and provide housing for the world's increasingly longer-living population. By focusing on three specific housing and service arrangements, it offers alternatives that provide greater freedom of choice than the current living arrangements that exist today. It presents selected examples of housing and service solutions from the US, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands to stimulate thinking about the possibilities of community-based service models.
Housing Design for an Increasingly Older Population looks at a trio of options for housing the "oldest-old:" the Dutch Apartment/Condo for Life Model (AFL), decentralized Small/Green Houses, and the provision of enhanced personal and health care for people who want to stay in their own home. It offers unique and eye-opening chapters covering what older people want, what age changes affect independence, demographics and living arrangements, how long-term care is defined, concepts and objectives for housing the frail, care giving and management practices that avoid an institutional lifestyle, innovative case studies, programs that encourage staying at home with service assistance, therapeutic use of outdoor spaces, how technology will help people stay independent, and more.
• Based on the author's numerous conversations with other experts, as well as his examinations of high-quality settings from Northern Europe and the US
• Building case study examples showcase innovative and compassionate solutions
• In-depth coverage of three major systems that work
• Examines successful programs such as PACE
The dilemma of helping older people maintain their independence through better housing with services is growing. This book presents innovative solutions for those who create and provide housing for the world's increasingly longer-living population. By focusing on three specific housing and service arrangements, it offers alternatives that provide greater freedom of choice than the current living arrangements that exist today. It presents selected examples of housing and service solutions from the US, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands to stimulate thinking about the possibilities of community-based service models.
Housing Design for an Increasingly Older Population looks at a trio of options for housing the "oldest-old:" the Dutch Apartment/Condo for Life Model (AFL), decentralized Small/Green Houses, and the provision of enhanced personal and health care for people who want to stay in their own home. It offers unique and eye-opening chapters covering what older people want, what age changes affect independence, demographics and living arrangements, how long-term care is defined, concepts and objectives for housing the frail, care giving and management practices that avoid an institutional lifestyle, innovative case studies, programs that encourage staying at home with service assistance, therapeutic use of outdoor spaces, how technology will help people stay independent, and more.
• Based on the author's numerous conversations with other experts, as well as his examinations of high-quality settings from Northern Europe and the US
• Building case study examples showcase innovative and compassionate solutions
• In-depth coverage of three major systems that work
• Examines successful programs such as PACE