Shelter And Service Issues For Aging Populations

Author : Leon A Pastalan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135417130

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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 place Shelter 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.

Author : Philip McCallion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317824718

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Housing for the Elderly by Philip McCallion Pdf

Find out how housing options for the elderly are changing—and not always for the better To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions they’ll face, examines how housing programs can help, and looks at the role social workers can play to ensure they remain healthy, happy, and productive as they age. Housing for the Elderly provides the tools to build a comprehensive understanding of how housing is changing to support the growing number of elderly persons in the United States. This unique resource examines a full range of housing options, including assisted-living communities, elder friendly communities, and homelessness; looks at the effects of the Olmstead Decision of 1999, which requires states to place persons with disabilities in community settings rather than in institutions; and summarizes current research on Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs). The book also presents a historical perspective of housing issues for the elderly, with a special focus on the discrimination of African-Americans. Topics in Housing for the Elderly include: creating elder friendly communities homelessness among the elderly in Toronto housing disparities for older Puerto Ricans in the United States grandparent caregiver housing programs how the Olmstead Decision affects the elderly, social workers, and health care providers New York State’s experience with NORCs relocation concerns of people living in NORCs the integration of services for the elderly into housing settings-particularly low-income housing moving from a nursing home to an assisted-living facility assisted-living and Medicaid and much more! Housing for the Elderly is an essential resource for social work practitioners, administrators, researchers, and academics who deal with the elderly.

Author : Amanda Grenier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228009542

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Late-Life Homelessness by Amanda Grenier Pdf

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked. Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Basing her analysis on a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of aging and homelessness. She draws attention to disadvantage over time and how the condition of being unhoused disrupts a person’s ability to age in place, resulting in experiences of unequal aging. Weaving together findings from policy documents, stakeholder insights, and observations and interviews with older people, this book demonstrates how structures, organizational practices, and relationships related to homelessness and aging come to shape late life. Situated in the context of an aging population, rising inequality, and declining social commitments, Late-Life Homelessness stresses the moral imperative of responding justly to the needs of older people as a means of mitigating the unequal aging of unhoused elders.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Health Care for Homeless People
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309038324

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Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Health Care for Homeless People Pdf

There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309115872

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Retooling for an Aging America by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans Pdf

As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.

Author : Simon Fraser University. Gerontology Research Centre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Home care services
ISBN : 0864911327

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Progressive Accommodation for Seniors by Simon Fraser University. Gerontology Research Centre Pdf

Author : Susan Rodiek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136748523

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The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging by Susan Rodiek Pdf

Presents new insights on the positive role nature and the outdoors can play in the lives of older adults, whether they live in the community, in an assisted-living environment, or in a skilled nursing facility. Current research suggests that increased contact and activity levels with the outdoors can be an important therapeutic resource for the elderly, with significant mental and physical health benefits. This unique book examines how to make the most of outdoor spaces in residential setting, exploring attitudes and patterns of use, the effect of plants, the physical environment, and health-related outcomes from contact with nature and enhanced physical activity.

Author : Kristen Barry, PhD,Frederic Blow, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780826116246

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Alcohol Problems in Older Adults by Kristen Barry, PhD,Frederic Blow, PhD Pdf

This manual provides state-of-the-art, practical materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers. It provides the first systematic, practical approach for working with the growing vulnerable population of older adults who use alcohol at risk levels often unnoticed in everyday clinical practice. Including guides to alcohol screening, protocols for managing withdrawal care, and an English/Spanish Health Promotion Workbook for Older Adults, this book is designed as a hands-on text for use in a range of primary and mental health care settings. Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and case managers will all be able to use it profitably.

Author : Benyamin Schwarz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0789014440

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Assisted Living by Benyamin Schwarz Pdf

Gerontologists of course, but also anthropologists, environmental designers, architects, social workers, and other professionals explore some of the issues facing those who will shape the future of assisted living. The eight studies also appear as the Journal of Housing for the Elderly v.15., nos.1/2 (2001). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jon Pynoos,Penny Hollander Feldman,Joann Ahrens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136434792

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Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults by Jon Pynoos,Penny Hollander Feldman,Joann Ahrens Pdf

Packaging supportive services with housing—a pressing issue for older adults The population of older adults is expected to explode in the coming years. Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults: Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities examines a crucial, complex, and often overlooked issue for policymakers and the public at large: older adults’ increasing needs for housing and supportive long-term care services. As baby boomers strive to help their parents make difficult decisions about their options, pressure mounts for policymakers to develop appropriate housing and services. This book brings together respected experts to discuss the answers to difficult questions about meeting the housing and support service needs of aging adults. Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults: Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities explores in-depth the tough issues pertaining to which populations are presently being served, what their needs are, and who is being left out. You’ll learn exactly what types of services are available, who is providing them, and how are they packaged. From residential care to assisted living to institutional care, this book addresses all facets of the complicated problems of providing availability to fulfill need. This important source presents insightful analysis of the total range of issues and the challenges to progress as well as offering specific recommendations to effectively offer housing and vital long-term care supportive services to older adults. Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults: Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities discusses in detail: the argument for increased development of supportive housing for older adults—and the barriers preventing it the issues related to providing a variety of housing and service options to the Medicaid population two case studies that illustrate how policies aimed at linking housing and services play out at the state and local level—and the need for strong leadership and the ability to develop key partnerships as vital aspects for success the interrelationship of factors regarding nursing home admission, the availability of subsidized housing, and Medicaid eligibility the need for care management to be holistic—including environmental care assessment, repair, and renovation management in addition to current long-term care settings creating affordable assisted living facilities for older persons receiving Medicaid services the successful components of the national Coming Home Program four case studies emphasizing different finance and regulatory approaches—providing lessons learned for developers, state agencies, and advocates of affordable assisted living This vital educational resource is also an essential reference for local, state, and national policymakers, housing officials, and long-term care providers.

Author : Satya Brink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020179045

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Housing Older People by Satya Brink Pdf

Two global trends are occurring concurrently: urbanization and population ageing. Today, almost half of the world's population lives in cities, and by the year 2025, city dwellers are projected to account for more than two-thirds of the world's population. At the same time, populations throughout the world are ageing, . Although this occurs at different rates, in practically every country, unproved sanitation, health care, and education have increased longevity. Our cities and towns will increasingly be populated with more people, and with people who will live longer than before. Regardless of culture, housing is the single most important environmental factor associated with life expectancy. Generally, elderly people living in a family situation have fewer housing problems that those who live alone, though the quality of housing depends on a variety of factors related to other members of the household. It also depends on a variety of other social, economic, and political factors. There are two major public policy debates now raging. The first is who is responsible for the care of elderly people. The second is how income health, housing, and social services should be Integrated. How these questions are answered has implications for housing and services available to older people. The solutions vary as much as countries vary; but a common feature is the desire to promote a supportive environment to ageing populations. Published as a special issue of Ageing International, the official journal of the International Federation of Ageing, this volume surveys the status of housing policies for elderly populations worldwide. Countries covered include Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Taiwan. Contributors are researchers with extensive knowledge of the elderly and housing policies in the countries. This volume will be of special interest to professionals working with the elderly, urban affairs specialists, and those interested in comparative social policy.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Committee on Population,Panel on a Research Agenda and New Data for an Aging World
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309074216

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Preparing for an Aging World by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Committee on Population,Panel on a Research Agenda and New Data for an Aging World Pdf

Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expensive to obtain, it is imperative that countries coordinate their research efforts to reap the most benefits from this important information. Preparing for an Aging World looks at the behavioral and socioeconomic aspects of aging, and focuses on work, retirement, and pensions; wealth and savings behavior; health and disability; intergenerational transfers; and concepts of well-being. It makes recommendations for a collection of new, cross-national data on aging populationsâ€"data that will allow nations to develop policies and programs for addressing the major shifts in population age structure now occurring. These efforts, if made internationally, would advance our understanding of the aging process around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aged
ISBN : PURD:32754070198464

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Our Aging Population by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373930

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Global Violence Prevention
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309293549

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Elder Abuse and Its Prevention by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Global Violence Prevention Pdf

Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention. Using an ecological framework, this workshop explored the burden of elder abuse around the world, focusing on its impacts on individuals, families, communities, and societies. Additionally, the workshop addressed occurrences and co-occurrences of different types of abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional, and financial, as well as neglect. The ultimate objective was to illuminate promising global and multisectoral evidence-based approaches to the prevention of elder maltreatment. While the workshop covered scope and prevalence and unique characteristics of abuse, the intention was to move beyond what is known about elder abuse to foster discussions about how to improve prevention, intervention, and mitigation of the victims' needs, particularly through collaborative efforts. The workshop discussions included innovative intervention models and opportunities for prevention across sectors and settings. Violence and related forms of abuse against elders is a global public health and human rights problem with far-reaching consequences, resulting in increased death, disability, and exploitation with collateral effects on well-being. Data suggest that at least 10 percent of elders in the United States are victims of elder maltreatment every year. In low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of violence is the greatest, the figure is likely even higher. In addition, elders experiencing risk factors such as diminishing cognitive function, caregiver dependence, and social isolation are more vulnerable to maltreatment and underreporting. As the world population of adults aged 65 and older continues to grow, the implications of elder maltreatment for health care, social welfare, justice, and financial systems are great. However, despite the magnitude of global elder maltreatment, it has been an underappreciated public health problem. Elder Abuse and Its Prevention discusses the prevalence and characteristics of elder abuse around the world, risk factors for abuse and potential adverse health outcomes, and contextually specific factors, such as culture and the role of the community.