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The supportive community
— a new concept for enhancing the quality of life of elderly living in the community | | Author(s) | Ayelet Berg-Warman, Jenny Brodsky |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 18, no 2, 2006 |
| Pages | pp 69-83 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Community care ; Quality of life ; Living in the community ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Supportive community programmes in Israel aim to improve older people's quality of life. These innovative programmes pool existing resources to provide a benefits package that includes medical services, an emergency call switchboard, a "neighbourhood facilitator", and social activities. Data were collected in 2000-2001 using qualitative and quantitative methods. The supportive community programme provides specific services for needs that would otherwise not be adequately met. The major contributions of the programme reported by the members was increasing their personal security (two-thirds), easing the burden on their children (one-third), and enabling them to remain at home (a quarter). The supportive community programme enriches the variety of services available, thus providing older people with the choice of staying within the familiar surroundings of their homes and neighbourhoods. This model appears to be both a cost-effective way of facilitating ageing in place and a way of meeting many of the older people's essential needs, thereby maintaining their quality of life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070109007 A |
| Classmark | PA: F:59: K4: 7H6 |
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