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Exploring home sharing for elders
Author(s)	Henry Bodkin, Parnika Saxena
Journal title	Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 31, no 1, January-March 2017
Publisher	Taylor and Francis, January-March 2017
Pages	pp 47-56
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Living with others ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America.
Annotation	Research suggests that third party-arranged home sharing (TPAHS) enables older people to remain at home in advanced age, by connecting elder home owners with suitable live-in "matches". TPAHS potentially saves older people, their families and Medicaid budgets millions of a dollars a year in avoided and postponed nursing home costs. In interviews with older TPAHS participants of one TPAHS program, the authors found that similarity in values, ability to utilise the TPAHS organisation's guidance, and, when relevant, familiarity with their matches' mental health challenges, correlated with said participants' satisfaction with their matches, while a lack of these qualities correlated with match dissatisfaction. With these findings in mind, the authors suggest strategies which TPAHS organisations can use, to best serve older TPAHS participants who may benefit from intensified match support, but may not seek it. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-170421231 A
Classmark	KA: 3DP: 7T
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