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Empowering Frail Elderly People

Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery

By: Duncan P. Boldy,Leonard F. Heumann,Mary McCall

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Empowering Frail Elderly People

Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery

By: Duncan P. Boldy,Leonard F. Heumann,Mary McCall

This book provides a unique analysis of provider-, environment-, client-, and societal-based obstacles to the empowerment of frail elderly persons in a philosophical framework of social values, as well as an applied framework wherein a variety of international case studies by a distinguished board of contributors provide concrete examples of the feasibility of achieving real empowerment. Empowerment means different things to different people in the context of housing, health, and social service delivery. This book analyzes the various definitions of the concept and practice of the empowerment of frail older persons and then discusses the definitions in a philosophical framework of social values regarding aging and the older person. Each chapter demonstrates the feasibility of achieving increased empowerment of older persons, even those with severe physical or mental disability. True empowerment of older persons in every country requires time, energy, money, and commitment to the goal. This book will be of interest to academic as well as professional audiences in areas of Gerontology, Psychology, Sociology, and Family Studies. Caregivers and policymakers will also find this analysis useful.

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297

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313002568

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9780313002564

Housing for the Elderly

Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America

By: Leonard Heumann,Duncan Boldy

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Housing for the Elderly

Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America

By: Leonard Heumann,Duncan Boldy

During the 1970s housing and social welfare policy as it affected the elderly was changing throughout Western society. Conventional high-rise apartments and institutionalized nursing or residential homes were no longer the sole public responses to housing the elderly. In place of these two extremes on the housing continuum was a variety of intermediate supportive systems that aided independent living. Assisted Independent Living (AIL) programmes were designed to keep the elderly in as independent a living environment as possible despite increasing functioning disabilities and frailties that often accompany advancing age. Originally published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses its success under several variations in Great Britain. The British analysis focuses on those aspects of the sheltered housing programme that had wider relevance to the development of AIL housing policy in Europe and North America.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040008003

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9781040008003