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Balanced retirement communities?
— a case study of Westbury Fields: final report | | Author(s) | Simon Evans, Robin Means |
| Corporate Author | University of the West of England; St Monica Trust |
| Publisher | St Monica Trust, Bristol, April 2007 |
| Pages | 58 pp |
| Source | St Monica Trust, Cote Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3UN. |
| Keywords | Retirement communities ; Flats ; Rented dwellings ; Quality of life ; Independence ; Social surveys ; Bristol. |
| Annotation | Retirement communities first appeared in the UK in the 1950s as groups of privately owned residences. More recent schemes include extra-care housing, continuing care retirement communities, and purpose-built retirement villages. Westbury Fields, built in Bristol by the St Monica Trust in 2003, is one of the first to combine social rented housing apartments and a care home with short term care and dementia care provision within a privately funded retirement village complex. The aim is to encourage a lively balanced community for more than 200 residents. The Trust commissioned the University of the West of England to carry out an exploratory evaluation of the village between October 2004 and March 2006. Research methods include in-depth interviews with 37 residents and 8 staff, a housing questionnaire for 34 residents, and the use of routinely collected data profiling living arrangements and residents' health and social care needs. This report explores whether the village is working, and quotes residents from a wide range of backgrounds and care needs. It describes the physical layout, accommodation, services, facilities and activities; residents' reasons for moving and choosing Westbury Fields; and the work of staff. Also examined are the impact of residents' different social backgrounds, the development of social networks, and the social and physical environment, and the community's ethos as referred to in the brochure produced by the Trust. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070703001 B |
| Classmark | ROA: KG: KEE: F:59: C3: 3F: 8AB |
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