Tài liệu Aspects considering new and current forms of housing for elderly pdf

TITLE

Aspects considering new and current forms of housing for elderly.

Housing options and modifications to maintain independence and to promote health.

KEYWORDS

Aging in Place / home modification / assisted living

Dependent / independent / phases and changes / housing options / modifications / tendencies /

Multigenerational household / relocating-options / integrated living / self-determined life /

Precautionary model and preventive strategies

BEGINNING

1) Introduction - What is housing?

Everyone does it and nearly everyone would assume to know what it is about – housing.

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Where from in the topic?

Example of a young couple with the awareness of the aging topic. Wanted a design offer for a

single family house, lot division for sister (ecology), house is to be modifiable into two units (aging)

Parents: Discussion about a new built shared home with friends (downsizing) because current

house is too large and the garden causes a lot of work and takes a lot of time.

Significance?

This two personal stories, of whom possibly everyone could tell similar ones, imply several

aspects.

…roughly circumscribe them

Several questions arise out of the housing diagram I created and its content will be the guideline

through the paper. The notions and options I try to describe and as well how public health can

address its content.

…show and describe diagram

Housing is understood within the overall goal of wellbeing, which is influenced by the social

environment and from the person itself.

Healthy Aging / Aging in Place / WHO / What is housing?

The understanding of health by the World Health Organization (WHO) is described as ´a state of

complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or

handicap` (WHO, 1948) Within this scheme, the components of body functions and structure, as

well as activity and participation, are interrelated and the environmental and personal factors have

an interfacing role in theses dynamics (WHO 2001). This is obviously a positivistic thinking already

to be found in 1948 and looking at the 2001 expressions we can clearly find the role of the person

itself, influencing his well being.

What do I cover and what not?

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MIDDLE How does it fit in the topic of aging and how can public health apply on it? How and where can it be implicated?

1. What is the incidence/prevalence of risk factors or health issues?

2. Does the risk factor/problem have a consequence to the health status of

the individual?

3. What are the underlying mechanisms that affect behaviour?

4. Can we have a positive effect – intervene -?

5. Can we take it to scale?

2) Housing options (Folts & Muir, Robinson & Moen)

a. Current forms of housing Describe examples from the texts

(Active marketing of housing to a target group vs. supportive housing

Granny Flats, Home Sharing, Share a Home, Intergenerational Housing, LORCs , age-restricted luxury rental

apartments, life-care-communities (LCCs), care retirement communities (CCRCs), cohousing)

What are the new forms of housing and wherein lay their qualities and differences?

What group of elderly is addressed in each new form of housing?