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Remodelling sheltered housing and residential care homes to extra care housing
— advice to housing and care providers | | Author(s) | Anthea Tinker, Julienne Hanson, Fay Wright |
| Corporate Author | King's College London; University College London - UCL |
| Publisher | King's College London; University College London, London, October 2007 |
| Pages | 19 pp (summary 4 pp) |
| Keywords | Sheltered housing ; Care homes ; Extra care ; Modification ; Adaption ; Architectural design. |
| Annotation | A multi-disciplinary team of 2 social gerontologists, 2 architects, a rehabilitation engineer, an occupational therapist and an economist carried out this research, which was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC grant no EP/C532945/1). The aims were to: examine how a sample of 10 local authority and housing association sheltered housing and residential care homes had been remodelled to become extra care; audit buildings to see how the remodelling schemes have been adapted; identify social and architectural problems resulting from the remodelling; explore tenants' experiences of living in a remodelled extra care scheme; and elicit the view of care and support staff of how well a remodelled extra care scheme works in practice. Most of the 19-page document comprise advice to policy makers, housing and service providers, built environment professionals, occupational therapists, rehabilitation engineers, funders and commissioners. There is also advice on accessibility issues. The 4-page summary gives and outline of to the study and its aims, and findings on these key points: architecture, assistive technology (AT), social issues, and costings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071210001 B |
| Classmark | KLA: KW: QA:58D: 5S: 5SA: YB3 |
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