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Housing and care for older people
— life in an English purpose-built retirement village | | Author(s) | Miriam Bernard, Bernadette Bartlam, Julius Sim |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 27, part 4, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 555-578 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_ASO |
| Keywords | Retirement communities ; Housing [elderly] ; Extra care ; Social surveys ; Stoke-on-Trent. |
| Annotation | Retirement communities are a relatively new long-term accommodation and care option in the United Kingdom. This paper addresses questions of suitability and acceptability of such accommodation by reporting the findings of an independently funded three-year study of a new retirement village, Berryhill, in the north Midlands of England. The paper examines the background to this and similar developments, details how the study was carried out, and then examines what it was like to live at Berryhill. It focuses on the housing and care aspects, and explores the residents' motivations for moving to the village; their views about the accommodation; and their use of and satisfaction with the social and leisure amenities. The health and care needs of residents and the formal and informal supports are also featured. The conclusion discusses whether the village can truly be a 'home for life' in the face of increasing frailty, and whether or not these new models of accommodation and care can indeed cater for both 'fit' and 'frail' older people. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070628205 A |
| Classmark | ROA: KE: QA:58D: 3F: 8STC |
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