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| Assessing the health impact of age-specific housing | | Author(s) | Paul Kingston, Miriam Bernard, Simon Biggs |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 9, no 4, July 2001 |
| Pages | pp 228-234 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Life satisfaction ; Living in the community ; Retirement communities ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | It has been claimed that "retirement communities" - defined here as voluntary communities of older people living in shared, purpose-built housing - combine the best attributes of residential and community living. Subjective health status may thereby be improved through a culture in which independence and autonomy are actively promoted. There is concern that age-segregated communities of this sort might produce "ghettos" of increasing dependency and service demand. In this 12-month study, it was found that when compared with older people living in the local neighbourhood, the retirement community population maintained their physical and mental health, as measured by the Short Form - 36 Health Survey (SF36), Life Satisfaction Index, and 18 semantic differentials. Investigation of these findings indicated that peer support and safety or security and "autonomy with inclusion" were key factors in maintaining health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010719207 A |
| Classmark | CC: F:5HH: K4: ROA: 48: 3J |
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