1st Edition

Optimizing Housing for the Elderly Homes Not Houses

By Leon A Pastalan Copyright 1990
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Discover the diverse range of housing options available to the elderly population with this excellent new book. This timely volume addresses the public policy and design and development issues that must necessarily face those concerned with housing our steadily growing elderly population. The chapters cover a broad spectrum of populations including elderly people in “aging ghettoes” in... Read more
Contents Introduction
  • Supportive Housing Preferences Among the Elderly
  • Yanks Versus Brits: American Compared With English Retirement Homes
  • Can the Elderly Be Differentiated By Housing Alternatives?
  • Features of Lower-Cost Continuing Care Retirement Communities: Learning From Cost Analysis
  • Housing Preferences of Vulnerable Elders in Suburbia
  • Toward a Definition of Assisted-Living
  • Full-Timers: Who Are These Older People Who Are Living in Their RVs?
  • Personal Coping Strategies of the Elderly in Housing Emergencies: Clue to Interventions to Prevent Homelessness and Institutionalization
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Leon A Pastalan