Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America (Routledge Library Editions: Aging) - Hardcover

Heumann, Leonard; Boldy, Duncan

 
9781032696928: Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America (Routledge Library Editions: Aging)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032696923 ISBN 13: 9781032696928
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

During the 1970s housing and social welfare policy as it affected the elderly was changing throughout Western society. Conventional high-rise apartments and institutionalized nursing or residential homes were no longer the sole public responses to housing the elderly. In place of these two extremes on the housing continuum was a variety of intermediate supportive systems that aided independent living. Assisted Independent Living (AIL) programmes were designed to keep the elderly in as independent a living environment as possible despite increasing functioning disabilities and frailties that often accompany advancing age.

Originally published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses its success under several variations in Great Britain. The British analysis focuses on those aspects of the sheltered housing programme that had wider relevance to the development of AIL housing policy in Europe and North America.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Leonard Heumann and Duncan Boldy

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032696923
ISBN 13 
9781032696928
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
226

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781032697710: Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America (Routledge Library Editions: Aging)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1032697717 ISBN 13:  9781032697710
Publisher: Routledge, 2025
Softcover