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Building companionship
— how better design can combat loneliness in later life | | Author(s) | Claudia Wood, Jo Salter |
| Corporate Author | Demos; McCarthy & Stone |
| Publisher | Demos, London, April 2016 |
| Pages | 25 pp |
| Source | Demos, Unit 1, Lloyds Wharf, 2-3 Mill Street, London SE1 2BD. Download: http://www.demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/... |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Sheltered housing ; Retirement communities ; Design ; Loneliness ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | There is growing concern about isolation and its impact on older people's health and its cost implications for the NHS and social care. This report focuses on how loneliness in later life can be combated by creating more connected communities and better design of retirement housing. It draws on the results of two surveys: the first was an independent survey carried out in December 2015 by Voluntas of 2,422 McCarthy & Stone homeowners exploring life in McCarthy & Stone developments; the second was an omnibus survey of 2,059 members of the British general public by Populus Data Solutions in March 2016, which asked questions about socialising, loneliness and community spirit. The report explores the link between retirement housing and loneliness, and how retirement housing might tackle this by having shared facilities, communal space, activities, and provision of maintenance, as well as design considerations. More than a million older people in Great Britain always or often feeling lonely, with the highest levels of loneliness being reported in London and the North West, and the lowest in Yorkshire. Those aged 80+ are almost twice as likely to report feeling lonely compared to their younger counterparts. Those living in retirement housing tend to report feeling much less lonely than their peers in mainstream housing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160419002 E |
| Classmark | KE: KLA: ROA: 33: DV: 3F |
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