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Optimizing Housing for the Elderly

Homes Not Houses

By: Leon A Pastalan

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Optimizing Housing for the Elderly

Homes Not Houses

By: Leon A Pastalan

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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1135904820

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University-Linked Retirement Communities

Student Visions of Eldercare

By: Leon A Pastalan,Benyamin Schwarz

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University-Linked Retirement Communities

Student Visions of Eldercare

By: Leon A Pastalan,Benyamin Schwarz

University-Linked Retirement Communities focuses on the special attributes of a retirement community designed as an integral part of a university. It discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of such a retirement community, which provides a rich and varied context for older people to be exposed to new ideas and learning opportunities for personal growth. The book centers on the premise that knowledge of basic principles of human behavior helps clarify understanding of the relationship between environment and behavior. Grounded in current research in the field of environment and aging, the book helps readers consider how the environment lends different aesthetic experiences and activity patterns to people of different backgrounds and capabilities. Some of the major environment and design issues chapters address are: person-environment fit privacy personal space wayfinding barrier-free design healthcare personal growth site developmentUniversity-Linked Retirement Communities was developed from a two-term course offered at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning that dealt with aging and the environment. The book is divided into two parts. Chapters in the first section discuss a variety of issues, including the meaning of “community,” a day in the life of an elderly person living in a retirement community, site evaluation for a theoretical retirement community, and reviews of different physical components for a retirement community. The second section contains four student presentations of designs for a retirement community and comments on the projects from a design jury.This book is a valuable source of information for a variety of readers. University-Linked Retirement Communities is of interest to potential users of eldercare services and their families; service providers; designers, architects, policymakers, and developers dealing with the elderly; and educators and students of architecture, environmental design, and other fields who are involved in housing and care options for senior adults.

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1135906858

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Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations

International Perspectives

By: Leon A Pastalan

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Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations

International Perspectives

By: Leon A Pastalan

Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations takes you for an inside look at what policies in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States have done to meet the housing and service needs of the elderly and the disabled and what policies have yet to accomplish. As you learn about a wide range of cost-effective and successful housing options, such as congregate housing, home equity conversions, and homesharing, you will learn about the challenges of providing responsive, high-quality housing and living arrangements to meet the needs of different populations. As this insightful book reveals, the psychosocial needs of elderly and disabled persons have often been neglected in efforts to provide appropriate physical accommodation, and services and shelter are seldom coordinated to respond to the changes individuals experience.Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations shows you how federal and state/provincial governments, nonprofit organizations, and private groups have all implemented policies to create barrier-free housing. Yet, at the same time, most Western countries have not developed comprehensive grant and loan programs to allow the elderly and disabled to modify their homes. As this book walks you through the problems that exist, it shows you how policymakers, architects, social work practitioners and academics, housing developers, and community leaders can work together to improve housing conditions and services. Along the way, you will learn about: the failure of health care systems to cover home modifications the Fair Housing Act Amendment stigmatizing effects of the “elderly” label in obtaining community accommodation differences between environmental needs of rural and urban seniors current patterns of housing and living arrangements of older Canadians the effects of demographic aging on the urban ecology the Abbeyfield model of congregate housing continuing care retirement communities aging in placeShelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations looks at the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to housing and service provision to help housing policy specialists, gerontologists, social workers, community leaders, architects, and housing developers find stronger, more effective solutions for giving people the home environments they need. Don't continue to supply inadequate housing to people with special needs. Let this book inform you, guide you, and contribute to the shaping of important, new housing and service policies.

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1135417067

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Housing Choices and Well-Being of Older Adults

Proper Fit

By: Leon A Pastalan,Benyamin Schwarz

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Housing Choices and Well-Being of Older Adults

Proper Fit

By: Leon A Pastalan,Benyamin Schwarz

Make housing for the elderly comfortable, efficient, and appropriate to their special needs!Today people are living longer lives than ever before, and elderly people need to live in settings that reflect their individual capabilities. They need safe and appropriate homes, appliances, and furnishings that they will not lose the ability to use and enjoy in the years of decline. Housing Choices and Well-Being of Older Adults: Proper Fit addresses the challenge of matching the attributes of residential settings for older adults with the competence of the people who live in them. This book views housing for the elderly as a special case in terms of the person-environment paradigm. It highlights the recurring themes that give housing for the elderly a measure of order and predictability.Care providers, consultants for retirement communities, researchers in the fields of aging and environment or gerontology, university libraries, and members of housing associations for the elderly will benefit from the timely and vital information in this book. Easy-to-understand charts and tables make the information even more accessible.Housing Choices and Well-Being of Older Adults discusses: the state of theory development in environmental gerontology housing needs of the elderly quality issues in this type of setting design and development issues kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom applications for elderly people in various states of health home safety issues and much more! and the issues surrounding continued aging and its implications for: supportive environmental, health, and psychosocial services the economic and financial concerns of aging adults housing management and community issues Use what you'll find in Housing Choices and Well-being of Older Adults to ensure that the elderly people in your life are comfortable in an environment that is safe and appropriate.

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1135416850

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Housing Decisions for the Elderly

To Move or Not to Move

By: Leon A Pastalan

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Housing Decisions for the Elderly

To Move or Not to Move

By: Leon A Pastalan

Because many elderly wish to age in place, they typically give little thought to the future of their housing options. Housing Decisions for the Elderly articulates the relevant issues regarding the diversity and complexity of housing decisions in terms of moving or not moving.To move or not to move is really part of the aging-in-place debate. In this guidebook, the authors deal with such issues as changes in economic income and stances; changes in household composition and health; and the psychosocial and metaphysical significance of “house.”This treatment of housing decisions regarding aging in place serves to assist professionals and laypersons to help the elderly make more informed choices and to plan better for the future. Housing Decisions for the Elderly reminds those who work with elderly persons--community organization workers; housing counselors and specialists; home health care agencies; and gerontologists--that the proportion of persons living in family settings decreases with age, so that the older the person, the more likely he or she will be living above or with nonrelatives in institutional or quasi-institutional settings.While changes in household composition typically occur at one or more points in the aging process such as death of spouse, incapacitating illness or loss of income, other housing issues to consider are addressed: why socioeconomic determinants of housing decisions of elderly homeowners focuses primarily on housing characteristics (owning vs. renting), length of housing tenure, age, and support from relatives how elderly housing assistance programs affect housing tenure deals with age as the single most important factor factors that influence pre-retiree’s propensity to move at retirement access to health care, freedom from house maintenance, and supportive services as the main determinants of moving to a continuing care retirement community

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1135907412

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The Retirement Community Movement

Contemporary Issues

By: Leon A. Pastalan

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The Retirement Community Movement

Contemporary Issues

By: Leon A. Pastalan

This new book identifies key elements in the success or failure of a retirement community. The practical implications of the research findings provided in this important volume will help you to identify and satisfy the needs of retirement community residents. Discover the level of interest middle income elderly people have in moving into a retirement community and the critical role this group plays in the future of retirement communities. Gain valuable insights into the effect that the type of sponsorship has on the elderly's attitudes toward retirement communities and attitudes older persons have toward living arrangements in general. Learn how some CEOs of continuing care retirement communities are responding to the dilemma of providing for aging in place while providing for the rejuvenation of the community to insure continued viability, and discover what may well be the single most crucial factor in the satisfaction level of residents in retirement settings. The Retirement Community Movement is fascinating reading for those who simply want to learns more about retirement communities and essential reading for those who conduct market feasibility studies or administer retirement communities.

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Psychology Press

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0866569251

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Aging in Place

The Role of Housing and Social Supports

By: Leon A Pastalan

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Aging in Place

The Role of Housing and Social Supports

By: Leon A Pastalan

In this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place. There are increasing numbers of older Americans who are faced with fundamental changes in their economic circumstances, health, and marital status which have an impact on their ability to age in place. Without the necessary supports many may have no other choice but to be prematurely or inappropriately placed in costly health care facilities or be forced to move into unfamiliar, less safe, less satisfactory housing environments. Aging in Place explores some of the dimensions associated with aging in place and informs readers about unmet needs and available living options for elderly persons. Experts discuss a number of crucial factors regarding the availability of social supports and the impact it has on the independence of the elderly, specifically their living arrangements. They address the issue of control and how access to social contact and real choices about services and facilities increases independence among the elderly; congregate housing as an alternative to nursing care for those elderly too frail for less supportive housing; discharge policies concerning frailty in senior living arrangements; and the lack of a full range of services in many alleged full service communities.

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1317839447

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Lifestyles and Housing of Older Adults

The Florida Experience

By: Leon A. Pastalan,Marie E. Cowart

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Lifestyles and Housing of Older Adults

The Florida Experience

By: Leon A. Pastalan,Marie E. Cowart

How do living environments affect the well-being of older residents? Using one state's strategies for meeting the housing needs of record numbers of older adults, experts illustrate how the living environment influences the cognition, social support, and self esteem of the elderly. In this authoritative volume, academicians, architects, builders, planners, gerontologists, and policymakers will find an instructive, in-depth discussion on the housing requirements that are unique to the elderly. Innovative solutions to the special physical and social challenges that older adults present to professionals are fully addressed.

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0866568727

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Retirement Communities

An American Original

By: Michael E Hunt,Allan G Feldt,Robert W Marans,Kathleen L Vakalo,Leon A Pastalan

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Retirement Communities

An American Original

By: Michael E Hunt,Allan G Feldt,Robert W Marans,Kathleen L Vakalo,Leon A Pastalan

This insightful book focuses on state-of-the-art retirement communities in the United States today. Experts from the fields of urban planning, architecture, and aging present in-depth profiles of a variety of retirement communities. The changing function and character of retirement communities--resulting from changes in supply and demand, alternate lifestyles, and other environmental needs of an ever-increasing aging population--are explored. The timely discussions in this useful resource offer insights into the relative strengths and weaknesses of various types of retirement communities with respect to the varying needs, abilities, and desires of older people.

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1135849455

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Book's by Leon A. Pastalan

Optimizing Housing for the Elderly

Optimizing Housing for the Elderly

University-Linked Retirement Communities

University-Linked Retirement Communities

Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations

Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations

Housing Choices and Well-Being of Older Adults

Housing Choices and Well-Being of Older Adults

Housing Decisions for the Elderly

Housing Decisions for the Elderly

The Retirement Community Movement

The Retirement Community Movement

Aging in Place

Aging in Place

Lifestyles and Housing of Older Adults

Lifestyles and Housing of Older Adults

Retirement Communities

Retirement Communities

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