Generations back issues from December 2005:
Introduction
Dec 01, 2005; ... In tackling a topic as broad and complex as senior housing and the intersection of individual needs for housing and supportive services, with affordability, accessibility, and acceptability, the first challenge is defining the subject. Housing can be defined as a setting or location where people ...
Our Guest Editor
Dec 01, 2005; ... My mother suffered a debilitating stroke at an early age and ended up in a nursing facility," says Keren Brown Wilson, this issue's guest editor. "At the time, there were no meals on wheels or other community services. A nursing home was the only option. She wanted so much to live at home, and ...
The Sad State of Affordable Housing for Older People
Dec 01, 2005; ... A crisis looms. A crisis exists for older Americans who need affordable housing, and the crisis is getting worse. Decreased production, dwindling resources, and conversion of affordable properties to market rate all contribute to the crisis identified by the Commission on Affordable ...
Small Board-and-Care Homes in the Age of Assisted Living
Dec 01, 2005; ... The challenge of defining, licensing and monitoring these 'mom and pop' settings. The past decade has seen the development of regulation for assisted living across the United States (Mollica, 2002), forcing policy makers to consider whether and how to draw the boundaries for this ...
Livable Communities for Older People
Dec 01, 2005; ... Independence, services, and connection. How older people interact with their environment can have important consequences not only for their personal independence, but also for their ability to remain socially active and connected to the people around them. Poorly designed housing, ...
Assisted Living in All of Its Guises
Dec 01, 2005; ... An increasing variety of approaches to design, operation, regulation, and payment. During the past fifteen years, a great deal has been written about the promises and pitfalls of "assisted living" as a viable new model of long-term care. More critical analyses, such as those in recent ...
A Place Called Home: Not-for-Profit Organizations Provide Innovative Housing and Services for Older Adults
Dec 01, 2005; ... Affordable and homelike models. Across the United States, not-for-profit providers of aging services are experimenting with ways to use senior housing as a platform for services. These programs enable elders to live more independently at a lower cost. Innovations include unique space ...
Linking Services to Housing: Who Will Provide the Care?
Dec 01, 2005; ... What is known about workforce issues in this realm? The paraprofessional long-term-care work-force-nursing assistants, home health and homecare aides, personal-care attendants, and personal services workers-forms the centerpiece of the formal longterm-care system. These frontline workers ...
Supportive Housing for Frail, Low-Income Older Adults: Identifying Need and Allocating Resources
Dec 01, 2005; ... What factors should be taken into account? In 2003, the congressionally appointed Seniors Commission identified major shortfalls in the current and future availability'of affordable rental housing with supportive services (personal care, social services, and nursing services) for frail ...
Retrofitting Homes and Buildings: Improving Sites for Long-Term-Care Delivery
Dec 01, 2005; ... A revised goal: Away from the old 'continuum' toward more integrated living. Athough the aging of the population is by now a commonly accepted fact of life, the aging of the housing stock is an issue that requires more attention. The existing housing stock in the U-nited States is ...
Home at the End of the Rainbow
Dec 01, 2005; ... Supportive housing for LGBT elders. Home is a weighty term, packed with reference to everything from the physical and environmental space surrounding individuals to the psychological and emotional space of the individual. Such multidimensionality is insufficiently noted in the ...
How to Match an Older Adult with the Right Housing
Dec 01, 2005; ... There is no one right answer. How do older adults get matched with the right mix of services and housing? It is a still evolving process with clearly unscientific answers. First, someone has to care enough to pay attention to what individual older people can do for themselves and what ...
Future Steps: Housing a Mature Society
Dec 01, 2005; ... The search for a workable balance. Mark me as one of the members of a maturing society. I am, to be sure, even more reluctant than ever to accept chronological age as an individual defining characteristic. And it is not because as a sociologist I think in terms of cohort or "group" ...
Using Technology to Improve Delivery of Care
Dec 01, 2005; ... Bob Dylan was right. In 1964, when Bob " Dylan published the song "The Times They Are A-Changin'," nursing homes were emerging as the recognized care delivery system for elders with chronic medical conditions. Assisted living, foster care, and home concierge programs were not even on the ...
Community Partnerships for Older Adults: Meeting the Housing Challenge
Dec 01, 2005; ... An unusual alliance of developers, service providers, officials, and elders. In Cobb County, Georgia, part of the metropolitan Atlanta area, a zoning change made in early 2005 now makes it easier to build housing for older adults in suburban neighborhoods. In Boston, a summit in late ...
The Coming Home Demonstration Program: A Model for Development of Affordable Assisted Living
Dec 01, 2005; ... The challenge of blending housing programs with services for older people on Medicaid. It has always been a challenge to create financially viable community-based housing with services for people with low incomes. This challenge has substantially limited the development and availability ...