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Generali, Heather. "Customer satisfaction in dining experience in Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Retirement Communities." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6996.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Hospitality Management and Dietetics
Carol W. Shanklin
Abstract Aging has become a focal point for several segments of the foodservice industry with the forecasted trends. Due to the link between quality of life and satisfaction with food in this population, many Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) and retirement communities are employing individuals who have experience in the hotel/restaurant industry. The purpose of the study was to assess residents’ overall satisfaction with quality of food and quality of service in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) and retirement communities when the facility employs a foodservice director or chef with culinary training or expertise. The research compared satisfaction based on types of foodservices provided (restaurants and café/bistros); resident characteristics such as gender and length of time residing at a facility; frequency of interaction with the chef or foodservice director; and meal plan requirement. The study was conducted in the Midwest region and included a convenience sample of Retirement Communities and CCRCs in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The variables analyzed were quality of food, quality of service, atmosphere, dining venues, meal plans, and frequency of dining with overall satisfaction. Atmosphere, food quality, dining venues, and meal plans significantly influenced overall satisfaction. Residents in facilities that provided more than one dining option had a slightly lower satisfaction ratings compared to the group who had one dining option. Overall satisfaction ratings for meal plan indicated that the respondents were neutral relative to the affect of meal plan and their overall satisfaction. The frequency of dining in one of the venues was positively influenced by meal plan requirements in the facilities. Residents who had lived in the facilities less than two years rated satisfaction higher. The more frequent the chef and foodservice manager interacted with the residents the higher the rate of overall satisfaction. Foodservice directors and administrators in these facilities can use the results to understand what the customers are looking for and how to improve overall services for their residents.
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Mahajan, Ruchi. "Design and Technology for Retirement Communities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595849126390168.
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Bergin, Melissa. "Community wellbeing in retirement villages /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19182.pdf.
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Taplin, Frank F. "Financing continuing care retirement communities : alternatives for proprietary developers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78073.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH
Title listed in M.I.T. graduate list: Financing congregate and continuing care housing for the elderly--alternatives for proprietary developers.
Bibliography: leaves 111-112.
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Fabe, Charlotte. "Translating the Inclusive Museum: Multi-Sensory Learning Inside Retirement Communities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592134659635971.
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Abu, Bakar Ainul Zakiah. "Dining at continuing care retirement communities: a social interaction view." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15168.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Hospitality Management and Dietetics
Deborah Canter
Chihyung Ok
As the number of older adults increases so does the demand for housing and personal care needs. The continuing care retirement community is unique from other senior care facilities as it provides a continuum of housing and care that caters towards an individual’s need. Foodservice is often utilized to attract older adults into retirement facilities. Such service would give residents additional opportunities to socialize with service workers as well as other patrons of the restaurant. Yet, few studies have focused on the roles of food and dining service on resident’s satisfaction with foodservice and their quality of life. Study 1 examined the relationships between residents’ perception of individual customer orientation of service employee dimensions: technical skills, social skills, motivation, and decision-making authority, with relational benefits, satisfaction and subsequent behavioral outcomes: repurchase intention and word-of-mouth. Study 2 explored the moderating effects of resident’s activity involvement and food involvement on the relationships between rapport, dining-need satisfaction and resident’s quality of life. To achieve the objectives of these studies, 412 continuing care retirement community residents from five facilities completed a self-report questionnaire. Of these, 354 were used in study 1 and study 2. Findings of the structural equation modeling (Study 1) suggested that resident’s perception of foodservice employee’s technical skills, social skills and motivation were important determinants of confidence and social benefits that led to residents’ overall satisfaction with foodservice. Satisfied resident-consumer is likely to engage in word-of-mouth and repurchase intention. Results of hierarchical multiple regressions (Study 2) revealed that perceived rapport and resident’s dining-need satisfaction are positively related to resident’s quality of life. This study also found that activity involvement and food involvement moderated the relationships between rapport and dining-need satisfaction with quality of life respectively. That is, the more involved resident has an improved quality of life.
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Lloyd, Williams Latham. "Risks and rewards of continuing care retirement communities : a developers's perspective." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78953.
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Wilson, Richard A. "ECHO aging in place communities /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Liddle, Jennifer. "Everyday life in a UK retirement village : a mixed-methods study." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2375/.
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This study focuses on the experiences of older people living in a UK purpose-built retirement community – Denham Garden Village (DGV). The aim was to understand more about everyday life in this particular environmental context including how the environment and organisation of the village related to residents’ everyday experiences. Using a mixed methods approach, the study draws on quantitative survey data from the Longitudinal study of Ageing in a Retirement Community (LARC) and combines this with 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents living in DGV. Data analysis combined descriptive statistics for the quantitative data with qualitative themes. The dimensions of work-leisure, solitary-social, and community integration were used as a framework to explore how aspects of the environment and individual circumstances, attitudes and beliefs shape patterns of everyday life. The study found that decisions to move were frequently preceded by changes in personal situations. The social and spatial separation of DGV from the wider community maintained the village as an almost exclusively age-segregated environment. Opportunities for social contact were widespread, but levels of loneliness were no lower than in the general population. The diversity in residents’ situations, resources and experiences contrasted with shared community stories of the village as a community of ‘choice’. In addition, norms and expectations about levels of activity and engagement served, in some cases, to prompt feelings of obligation and guilt among residents. Findings suggest a need for more emphasis on the individuality of residents’ experiences of everyday life – both in terms of representing such diversity in publicity and marketing materials, and in working towards an ethos of respect, tolerance and acceptance within communities like DGV. It is suggested that future research could focus on ways to reduce the age-segregated nature of existing developments like DGV, enabling them to function as integrated parts of the wider community.
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Millage, Philip J. "An exploratory study of the influences on and content of communication between retirement housing providers and retirees who are their potential customers." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720390.
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This study was designed to investigate influences on and content of communication between retirement housing providers and retirees who are their potential customers. This included communications: 1) prior to deciding on a retirement apartment, 2) the actual deciding process, and 3) postpurchase influences. Data gathered during the pre-decision stage indicated that the expectations of many seniors are influenced by various groups and individuals. The expectations formed are the basis for future communications with retirement communities. Second, the actual deciding process involved determining what "triggers" the seniors' decisions to begin shopping for retirement apartments. Third, the study focused on postpurchase influences which included communications with seniors who were apartment owners' or renters' regarding attitudes based on their experiences of living in retirement apartments. The research was conducted in two retirement communities, one was located in Florida and the other in Indiana. Information from the two retirement communities was compared and contrasted. The data indicate that each retirement community was unique in many ways. One important uniqueness was the values of the retirement community management organization. Seniors either found a particular retirement community attractive or unattractive based on how it fit their value systems. Seniors depend on person-to-person communication. Most tend to drawn conclusions about the retirement communities based on what they have learned about the retirement communities over a period of years. It was also learned that many seniors in the shopping process do a good amount of self-evaluation during the deciding process. Most seniors don't see clear differences between nursing homes and retirement communities which provide multiple levels of care when both are located on the same site. This makes the decision to move into a retirement apartment a more difficult one. Seniors miss many of the benefits of retirement apartment living because they wait until they are incapacitated in some way before moving into a retirement apartment.Department of Educational Leadership
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Liu, Qiaoming. "Social support for the frail elderly at two kinds of retirement communities." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4098.
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As few studies focus explicitly on social support for residents by residents in retirement communities which have staff, this thesis is designed to explore the nature of informal social support among residents at planned, non-subsidized retirement care facilities: the types, the amount, the impact, the limitation and the appropriateness of such support. Our focus is to explore whether different organization of a retirement community affects social support among residents, so we compare two retirement care facilities. One provides single-level care for its residents and the other provides multiple-level care. We chose our two sites from retirement care facilities in the City of Portland, Oregon. We generated our data by interviewing residents who live independently in the two retirement communities.
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Merrick, Jessica. "Comparative Study of Intentional Communities." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3628.
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Moving to Florida to retire has become commonplace among American elders, though we have seldom addressed how lesbians and gay men navigate sexual identity in retirement. I undertake ethnography of three suburban, retirement-aged residential communities in Florida in which lesbians and gay men make community in order to understand how identities are produced by and within communities, the significance of suburban gay communities in the post-gay community era, and how residents from each community engage dominant discourse. Sanctuary Cove 1 is a ―gay and lesbian‖ retirement community; Bayside Park is a ―women‘s-only‖ (lesbian) community; and Heritage Estates is a heteronormative retirement community with a growing lesbian ―network.‖ Drawing from conversations with thirty lesbians and four gay men, I compare community practices to support my argument that these are respective settings for accrediting, contesting, and privileging identities. By exploring how participants collectively construct and present sexual selves in disparate communities, I attempt to uncover the co-constitutive interaction between community and identity; while attention to the ruling relations of sexuality, sex, gender, race, and class engages the politics of privilege and stigma.
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Baker, Karen Jane. "Young people and retirement : saving for the future." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/69579/.
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In the UK, new Government pension reforms aimed at preventing a future of poorer pensioners represent a continuing policy emphasis on individual responsibility. Two main elements of the reforms are the introduction of Personal Accounts and a gradual increase in the age of eligibility for state pensions, from 65 to 68. These reforms will affect young people in particular. The success of the reforms in preventing a future of poorer pensioners will require young people to save more in Personal Accounts or alternative retirement saving vehicles. Young people wishing to retire before the state pension age will need to save even greater amounts. Despite the implications of these reforms for young people, retirement saving amongst young people is an under-researched topic. This research aims to help fill the gap. The research examines retirement saving behaviour and attitudes amongst young people under the age of 35, using secondary data analysis of the 2005/6 Family Resources Survey and semi-structured interviews. The findings are analysed within a framework of structure versus agency. The results suggest that although the majority of young people have positive attitudes towards retirement saving, actual pension saving activity depends more on labour market position than on saving intentions. In terms of access to pensions, young people are structurally disadvantaged when compared with other age groups, yet the blame for failure to save falls firmly upon the individual. The policy implications are that Personal Accounts will increase the level of retirement saving amongst young people, but considerable numbers of young people with limited access to the new scheme will remain disadvantaged. Furthermore, very few young people will be able to reach the level of saving required to retire before the new state pension age. Today’s young people are set to save more and work longer than previous generations.
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Hansen, Jonathan Ford. "Long-term implications of dam removal for mesohabitat and macroinvertebrate communities in Michigan and Wisconsin rivers." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Smoczynski, Florence I. Jr. "An Examination of the Perceived Educational Needs of Residents in Continuing Care Retirement Communities." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40521.
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As the mean age of the population continues to rise, increasing attention is being given to how and where the elderly will live. Since health of this age group varies considerably, living arrangements which offer a full spectrum of services and attend to a continuum of needs have arisen over the past few decades. Called Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs), these places offer three levels of living: individual apartments, assisted living and the nursing center. Residents can move freely among these three levels as the need arises.
While the educational needs of the elderly have been discussed theoretically and explored in a variety of practical contexts, no research to the author's knowledge has investigated the context of CCRCs and the population within. This study filled that gap in the literature. Framed by the seminal research of McClusky which identified five categories of educational needs of the elderly (coping, expressive, contributing, influencing and transcending), the purpose of this study was to investigate the educational needs of the residents as perceived by residents and to determine if selected demographic variables differentiated among responses; a corollary aim was to learn more about the residents' learning formats used, and current satisfaction as well as future interest in educational activities.
Results of a questionnaire distributed to residents of two not-for-profit CCRCs in northern Virginia served as a data base, with a response rate of 68% for residents. The questionnaire, designed by the researcher, was validated through multiple iterations by content and process experts and piloted with a CCRC not in the study. Data were appropriately coded and analyzed using SPSS. Confidentiality of the respondents was maintained at all times.
The results indicated that residents were highly educated, financially secure, and in good health. Ages range from 67 to 100 years old. Both current participation as well as future interest in educational activities was high, but only a few demographic variables seemed to differentiate responses. Educational activities dealing with coping and transcending needs seemed to take priority, involvement in self-directed learning activities was high, and when involved in programmatically organized and structured activities, the format of small groups preferred. These findings could be significant for any practical intervention implication. Implication for future research include inquiry into this growing special population; for example, the why and how of their self-directed learning projects.Ed. D.
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Coppinger, Erin C. "NORC vs. Non-NORC: Evaluation of Profiles and Impact of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1145474961.
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Yen, Wen-Shen. "Person-environment fit: work-related attitudes and behavioral outcomes in continuing care retirement communities." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14757.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Hospitality Management & Dietetics
Chihyung Ok
Academics and practitioners alike have studied the concept of person-environment fit (P-E fit) during the last two decades. How well a person fits the work environment may be an effective indicator of attitudes and behaviors in organizations. P-E fit is not completely conceptualized, so existing studies of fit theory have focused only on particular dimensions of fit leading to contradictory results. Therefore, Study 1, using multi-dimensional environment fit, tested relationships among the environment fits, work related attitudes, and outcomes at the individual, group, and organization levels. In addition, Study 2 examined the effect of relationship qualities between hierarchical levels (supervisor-subordinate) and multi-dimensional fit on employee turnover intention. To empirically test the proposed relationships, 288 foodservice employees at continuing care retirement communities (22 facilities) statewide submitted questionnaires. Of these, 261 and 254 were usable in study 1 and study 2, respectively, for further data analysis. The results of structural equation modeling (Study 1) suggested that employee need-supply fit, demand-ability fit, person-group fit, and person-organization fit were positively related to employee need satisfaction. Further, need satisfaction was positively related to outcome variables like work engagement, interpersonal citizenship behavior, and organizational commitment. Results of hierarchical multiple regressions (for Study 2) showed that employee need-supply fit perception related negatively to turnover intention. The study also found that the leader-member exchange relationship moderated the need-supply fit and turnover intention. Thus, a close exchange relationship between leaders and subordinates could keep subordinates from leaving because of a need-supply misfit. Further discussion and managerial implications of the findings along with directions for future studies are provided.
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Barrow, Mary Jane W. "A comparative analysis of movers and non-movers to a retirement community." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91159.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether significant differences exist between movers and non-movers to a retirement community in the areas of demographic characteristics, residential characteristics of the most recent age-integrated community dwelling, and residential satisfaction. A personal interview schedule was developed and administered to a random sample of 32 elderly (age 62+) residents of the Montgomery County/City of Radford, Virginia community-at-large (non-movers) and 32 residents of a Montgomery County, Virginia retirement community (movers). T-test and chi square analyses were used to examine the data.
The findings revealed significant differences (P<.05) between the two groups in marital status, income, residential characteristics of the most recent age-integrated community dwelling including tenure, dwelling type, dwelling age, number of rooms, length of residence, presence of major structural problems, neighborhood, and overall satisfaction levels. Non-movers were more likely to be married homeowners who were more satisfied with their present housing and neighborhoods than movers were with their previous housing. Non-movers' dwellings were more likely to be single-family detached, older, and larger, and contained fewer structural problems than the previous dwellings of movers.M.S.
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Hall, Kenneth B. "Fitness trails for continuing care retirement community residents: motivational cues to participation." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51912.
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The motivational elements necessary to encourage use of fitness trails by residents of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) was investigated. Previous research suggested that both the walking and exercise parts of these fitness trails are being used by only a small percentage of' the residents. A checklist was used to identify the number of motivational elements that were present in the design of the fitness trails at three CCRCs. A staff questionnaire was used to determine management involvement and fitness program specifics.
This research investigates the extent to which Jane Jacobs’ (1961) work with sidewalks in cities can be applied to the fitness trail within the CCRC. The research questions generated for this study were: To what extent is the success of the fitness trail dependent on the intricate mutual support given it by its surrounding elements? Does a single activity or amenity contribute to the success of a fitness trail or is a variety of choices necessary for potential users to experience? Is this aspect of choice essential to participant satisfaction?
The analysis identified several elements that may contribute to the use of a fitness trail by older adults. The use of the concept of tangible rewards by one of the CCRCs contributed to a significantly greater percentage of resident use.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Petrossi, Kathryn H. "Expanding the science of successful aging older adults living in continuing care retirement communities (ccrcs) /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001195.
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Sakadakis, Venes. "Bibliotherapy : a mental health approach with institutionalized elderly people." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59436.
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Bibliotherapy is an innovative therapeutic technique that uses reading as a helping process for dealing with stress. It has been proposed as a mental health approach for individuals facing social, psychological or developmental problems. As reading tends to be a non-threatening method of sharing problems, a bibliotherapy group was implemented for 12 weeks with eight alert elderly people who had difficulties coping with their current life situation in a long-term care institution. The effectiveness of a bibliotherapeutic approach with this population is evaluated and implications for social work policy, practice and research are discussed.
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Simpson, Mary Louisa. "Organisational transformations in the New Zealand retirement village sector: A critical-rhetorical and -discursive analysis of promotion, community, and resident participation." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2666.
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This thesis examines quotcustomer-focusedquot communication and resident participation within the retirement village sector which is one part of the increasingly quotmarketisedquot aged-care services in New Zealand. In this respect the sector is no different from other domains of consumer life where marketing-oriented organisations aim to find out what their customers want and give it to them. This research examines communication related to customer-focused organisational activities and residents' enactment of participation within retirement village organisation (RVO) settings with respect to these processes of marketisation. Taking a critical-interpretive perspective, the thesis undertakes a collective case study involving two major New Zealand RVOs. Both organisations were defined as quotretirement villagesquot within the meaning of the Retirement Villages Act 2003, established in the 1990s, and offered quotretirement livingquot independent housing and apartments across a range of locations. A significant part of the study also examined publicly available promotional material from six RVOs operating multiple sites in various New Zealand locations. This thesis explores retirement villages as co-productions between the corporate entities that develop and market villages and the residents who live in them. The thesis also explores RVO rhetoric about quotretirement living for active 55 plusquot, RVO enactment of customer focused communication and activities, and residents responses to and expectations of both. It is argued that this co-production has implications for residents' participation, their roles and relationships with employees, as well as for organisational communication processes and structures. The rhetorical and critical discourse analysis reveals the complexity of what quotparticipationquot means for the residents. Through a close examination of these meanings, the thesis extends current understandings of relationships between quotcustomersquot and quotcustomer-focusedquot organisations and highlights the role of older people in Western Society as co-producers of the very product they purchase: the retirement village. It also raises practical and theoretical issues for organisational communication. At the practical level it highlights how communication messages, structures and processes within RVOs experience tensions in meeting the needs of both internal, current, and long-term customers, and external, potential, and future customers. The thesis offers insights into issues of individual action and freedom within the frame of market-driven and avowedly quotcustomer-focusedquot organisations and consequently suggests a reconsideration of participation in organisations in which customers are also quotinsidersquot.
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Curch, Lisa Marie. "THE PLACE OF DIETARY PRACTICES IN THE LIVES OF OLDER WOMEN." UKnowledge, 2002. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/370.
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Studies have supported the benefits of positive dietary behaviors in preventing or reducing morbidity and extending longevity, as well as the psychosocial function of dietary practices for quality of life. Research is needed though on the dietary behaviors of elders in general and older women in particular, for whom gender affects lifelong dietary patterns. Health behavior theory has typically focused on psychological factors, to the neglect of sociocultural processes. This investigation utilized a life course perspective, enhanced by social interactionist elements, to address aspects of development and change in behavior neglected by health behavior theories, such as temporal dimensions and social contexts. Using primarily an ethnographic approach centered on in-depth narrative interviews of 18 older women residing in a retirement community, this study explored how social milieu influences the development and progression of dietary behavior throughout life, the potential of life course transitions to modify dietary behavior, and how the retirement community environment shapes current dietary behavior. The interviews probed current dietary experiences and practices, as well as constructed histories of dietary behavior. Through the use of coding techniques and thematic analysis, themes and concepts that emerged from the data were organized for further analysis. Four levels of influence on dietary behavior were identified: 1) person factors, including psychological and physiological processes; 2) interpersonal relationships and social interaction; 3) social roles and statuses; and 4) contexts, particularly environmental, community policy and political economic contexts. Analysis additionally revealed four major food-related themes in the lives of the women: dietary morality, dietary wellness, dietary sociability and dietary duty. Interpretation of the findings, in terms of lifelong social experiences, the impact of relationships, roles and transitions, and structural characteristics of the retirement community that constrain or facilitate dietary practices, contributed to the development of a theoretical model. The research findings and model of life course influences on the nature of dietary behaviors of older women provide a more holistic understanding of dietary practices of older women and have implications for future research and practice, particularly as related to quality of life issues.
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Butler, M. "How do Black Caribbean-born women living in the UK construct their experience of retirement? : a discursive psychology analysis." Thesis, City, University of London, 2018. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19894/.
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Historically, the study of retirement has tended to adopt an androcentric bias by assuming that a woman’s experience aligns to that of a man. In addition, the focus on the experience of Caucasian participants has also been noted, with ethnic minorities considered under-researched within the field of psychology. The current study aimed to redress both of these pertinent issues by exploring how black Caribbean-born women living in the United Kingdom construct their experience of retirement. Eight women who self-identified as voluntarily retired were recruited, and data was collected through each participating in an individual semi-structured interview. A social constructionist epistemology was ascribed to, and data was analysed using discursive psychology. Of interest was how the participants’ discourse created their social reality of retirement, and what the discursive implications of this constructed meaning was for the retiree. Three main discursive constructions were identified: connections, negotiating difference and life learning. These different constructions highlight how retirement is presented as a powerful object that has the capability to shift the retiree towards positions of destabilisation and unease. In the context of retirement, participants aligned to either a position of agency or passivity, with each creating different consequences for how retirement is constructed and the meanings derived from it. The analysis explored how, when located within a religious discourse, the impact of retirement upon the participant lessens, as well as how dominant discourses constructed in early life experiences seemingly still impact upon how the participants communicate not just their retirement but experiences more generally. The current research acknowledges the intersectionality of experience for the studied population and, in line with counselling psychology philosophy, champions the unique subjectivity of the participants’ experience. The insights gained from this study can be used as a guide for researchers and clinicians alike, to advocate the importance of maintaining cultural awareness within their practice. The limitations, implications and suggestions for future research are also considered.
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Secomb, Dorothy Margaret School of Social Science & Policy UNSW. "Retirement in Mobile and Manufactured Housing on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Social Science and Policy, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17488.
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This study considers relocatable homes as an alternative housing choice for male and female retirees fifty years of age and over. Homogeneous parks and estates planned for a specific type of relocatable home are compared with those which evolved from tourist parks and retain sites for both permanent and short-term occupancy. Four relocatable home environments are considered: caravan parks, mobile homes in mixed parks, manufactured homes in mixed parks and manufactured housing estates. The differential effects of 'age', 'house type' and 'housing environment' upon 'residential satisfaction', 'sense of community within the neighbourhood', 'social integration in the community' and 'psychological adjustment' form the analytical framework of the study. Residents of 34 parks/ estates on the North Coast of New South Wales completed 778 questionnaires. Case studies, interviews, letters and written comments provided data for qualitative analysis. Approximately 94% of respondents are satisfied with their homes and housing environments. Residential satisfaction is most influenced by the interactions and perceptions of residents; psychological adjustment is influenced by a positive attitudes towards self and one's neighbours; integration in the community is affected by levels of network. Each of these relate strongly with having a sense of community in the neighbourhood. Space internal to the dwelling relates to satisfaction, adjustment and community integration. External space relates to the need for a well planned neighbourhood which affords privacy, safety and amenities. The need for meeting places for small and large groups was recurrent. The results suggest that residents of relocatable homes tend to retain affiliation with organisations joined prior to relocation. They are not reliant on their new neighbours to integrate in their community. This result is contrary to prior research which studied site built homes and traditional neighbourhoods. The present high levels of residential satisfaction would rise if it were not for the overwhelming uncertainty of tenure and unjustifiable rises in site rent. The study reviews government policy especially in relation to tenure. A relocatable home offers no more affordability than a site-built home in the same area in the long-term but it does offer a preferred retirement lifestyle.
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Chapman, Leslee K. "Baby boomers and retirement : how will this landmark generation redefine retir[e]ment community design?" Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1355592.
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With the first of the 77 million (www.census.gov) Baby Boomers turning 60 this year, the impact on retirement and retirement communities has suddenly become a vital and pressing issue. The massive numbers of Baby Boomer cohorts have amplified and intensified the importance of whatever experiences they've had at each new moment in their lives. When they reach any stage of life, the issues that concern them — whether financial, interpersonal, or even hormonal — become the dominant social political, and marketplace themes at the time. (www.agewave.com 2006) Retirement will be no different. Using this understanding of the Baby Boomer generation, this study examined their impact on retirement community design.Data specific to Baby Boomer retirement preferences was analyzed, an expert in the field of gerontology at Ball State University was interviewed, research was completed in retirement community design and age related health concerns, and case studies in a range of established retirement communities in southwest Florida were visited, all in an effort to determine what the current trends are in the retirement community market today and how Boomers would effect them.Research showed that Boomers want to pursue new and exciting experiences in their retirement years. They are not willing to settle for a retirement tucked out of the way, out of sight out of mind. They want to be in the middle of activity and enjoyment. They are looking to make a difference and have an impact in this next phase of life.The result of these endeavors is a conceptual design for an active adult retirement community, in northeast Lee County Florida, that will attract Baby Boomers by appealing to their sense of fun, their sense of purpose and their social and environmental conscience.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Olson, Richard W. "The high ground at risk making a difference in the continuing care retirement community industry /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Tian, Haijun. "Caring for depression and comorbid pain evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey and the Healthcare for Communities Survey /." Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006. http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgsd_issertations/RGSD204/.
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Kao, Philip Y. "The victims of a sorted life : ageing and caregiving in an American retirement community." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3980.
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This thesis is an ethnographic analysis of a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in the American Midwest. I examine salient aspects of American culture, and how persons in the American Midwest understand relationships and themselves in the context of eldercare, and particularly, how issues of personhood and kinship are conceptualised in a long-term care facility. Rather than focusing exclusively on just the labour of caregivers, or how the residents in the CCRC receive care, my study is grounded in the interaction and relations that obtain during specific regimes of caregiving. Because the exigencies of ageing are met with certain exigencies of care, this study touches upon three dominant themes that make sense of the tensions that emerge when principles and practices do not square up. The first theme deals with how ageing and care are constituted, and made relational to one other. Secondly, I demonstrate that in the CCRC where I conducted fieldwork, ageing is constructed as a process and institutionalised, resulting in a distinctive way in which space and time are dealt with and unravelled from their inextricability. The resulting consequences affect not just the older residents and the CCRC staff, but also impacts how caregiving takes on specific forms and meanings. Thirdly, I investigate how formal (professional) caregivers and care receivers produce a type of social relation, which cannot be understood alone by conventional studies of kinship and economic relations. Ultimately, this thesis sets the frame for future debate on the ontological commitments involved in eldercare, and how the segregation of care and of the elderly in society relate to wider social norms regarding ageing and marginality.
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Gignoux, Leslie Conger. "The landscape design preferences of older people." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53124.
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What are the landscape style preferences of older people? What are the preferred outdoor activities of older people? In this study I want to raise the issue of how the external environment is aesthetically perceived, and how we as designers might facilitate the user’s needs in design. In order to incorporate user needs into a design program we must first develop methods to identify user needs. There is not a body of literature that identifies the landscape design preferences of older people. So it has been the major aim of this study to develop a process by which these preferences can be identified and utilized in a landscape plan.
It has also been a primary goal of this study to work with a particular group of older people; to become familiar with them; to build a rapport; to observe behavioral patterns; and to allow the residents to contribute their ideas to the development of a landscape plan. The research methods employed were geared to encourage resident participation in the design process and to determine aesthetic preferences. The Wheatland Hills retirement center was selected for the study because it was a newly constructed facility with supportive residents and management. The residents were primarily educated, ambulatory, white, middle class females from rural and urban backgrounds living in an age-segregated congregate care facility.
The first method of inquiry utilized environmental modelling techniques adapted for the sample. Since the residents were familiar with their site, a landscape design workshop was developed that would allow for a maximum amount of idea generating. On pre-constructed cardboard models, the residents were asked to create their ideal landscape. They worked in four teams ranging in size from 3-6people. Sixteen of the forty residents participated in the landscape design workshop.
The results from the landscape design workshop were indicated on the four models. Therefore a system of landscape styles and design categories (LSDC) was developed for the study. From each model, the LSDC system was used to interpret significant design patterns. The checklist (Figure 63) indicated major programming preferences and ideas. Strong circulation and activity areas were denoted in one model. Strong planting design schemes were denoted in a second model. The third model addressed programming on all areas of the site, and the fourth model showed a strong native planting scheme.
The second method was employed to determine landscape style preferences — the aesthetic concerns. A visual preference testing technique was adapted for the sample using the LSDC system. Forty-two images representing six landscape styles and seven design categories were shown in slide form first to the twenty participating residents. The residents then manually selected their favorite use of a landscape style from each design category, isolating the favorite print.
The visual preference survey indicated that the most popular landscape style was the French-Italian formal landscape (Figure 74). Within the design categories of "water", "private space", "public space" and "plants for color", the favorite selection was the formal landscape. In two design categories; "plants in the built environment" and "pathways", the residents preferred the English cottage Landscape. And in the design category of "overall design", they preferred the conventional institutional landscape.
The information generated from these two research methods points to a more complete visual and functional picture of what the residents prefer in their landscape. As designers, we must not only interpret user needs on a programming level, but we must also consider the landscape aesthetic, the preferred style.
The resulting conceptual landscape plan (Figure 76) has incorporated the preferred elements from both methods. It was found that the residents preferred to view a series of controlled outdoor planting habitats sandwiched between programmed activity rooms. This illustrates their need to extend the building into the landscape — to create a series of rooms that are easily accessible, yet have their purpose. These rooms are to hold a badminton court, or a chain swing. They want wide paths to accommodate two people or a wheelchair. They want to see native plant materials such as the dogwood and rhododendron. They want to see pretty pastel colors from their window, rather than bright red, yellow or blue. They want scented gardens, spring gardens, rock gardens and aquatic gardens, and most importantly they want the programmed space to get them there safely. Then they want to be able to sit and admire the pretty landscape and their friends using the next door space.
This study has employed two innovative research methods for the purpose of creating a more whole design. The conceptual landscape plan that has evolved from this study is dynamic and designed for a specific user group. There is no doubt that the methods used could be applied to other user groups, and there is no doubt that the results might change significantly based on the differences of the group. Yet the process of this inquiry has yielded information that can be applied to design.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Kraiwattanapong, Somsri. "The senior citizen center, Mission Bay, San Francisco : ACSA/Wood Council student design competition." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845988.
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This thesis for the master of architecture degree focuses on the particular requirements for Senior Citizen Center in San Francisco.In the traditional society of the West, things did not change quickly, and people did not frequently move from one place to another; but this present-day society is one of dynamic suburbs; villages and towns can change their appearances in a very short time. The treatment of older people in contemporary society has caused many of them to feel alienated from the mainstream. Technical progress and the “rational” organization of present day civilization has largely eliminated the aged as persons having more experience that may beneficially be shared with the rest of us. I believe it is important to consider and respect the value of elderly people.My chosen program and site for this creative project is to design and solve the main problems of high density, the location, and the existing environments.In my own country of Thailand, there are only a few places specifically built for homeless elderly. It is very interesting therefore for me to explore and acquire knowledge for the design of Senior Citizen Center in the United States. There is a certain potential for this being useful someday in my own country.Department of Architecture
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Vanek, Raymond, and Sophie Walker. "A study of inter-generational activities in structured environments for seniors." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1236.
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This survey research project explored different factors influencing the desire of seniors living in structured residential centers to have inter-generational activities with children from their communities.
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Harrison-Rexrode, Jill. ""I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28728.
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In this study I explore boundary work processes that older adults do which influences friendships among residents of a progressive care retirement community. Accounts of boundary work as mechanisms for including some and excluding other residents as potential friends were collected by using a combination of quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews from residents (age 65+) of a progressive care retirement community in the United States. First, a survey explored symbolic boundaries related to cultural capital, defined as music and leisure interest and participation, as well as structural and social aspects of friendships among residents (N=66). Second, in-depth interviews of a sub-sample of residents of an assisted living facility within the community (N=15), were conducted to examine older adultsâ narratives of how they use cultural capital as a mechanism of symbolic boundary work that influences their friendships with others in the retirement community. The administrator of the assisted living facility (N=1) was also interviewed. Findings from this study suggested that cultural capital was associated with sociability which offers some support for the relational â tool kitâ model of the theory. However, findings from in-depth interviews suggested that while music and leisure interests and participation may be important, valuations of bodies were more likely to influence â otheringâ of residents, although the two are related. This study enriches our understanding of how symbolic boundary use varies by group and context, as well as makes theoretical contributions to the literature on symbolic boundaries by exploring the ways in which aging may alter the use of boundaries.Ph. D.
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Saraswathi, Y. R. "Designing an outdoor environment for older adults." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1061976.
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The goal of this project is to create an outdoor environment that responds to the social, physical and emotional needs of older adults.The main objective of this project is to provide quality outdoor spaces associated with a housing facility. To meet this objective, the project stresses three major objectives: (1) to integrate the older adults' housing facility with the neighborhood in order to eliminate segregation and loneliness; (2) to determine the aspects of nature that are beneficial to the older adults' physical and mental health; and (3) to create an appropriate outdoor environment that will increase social contact and enhance active and passive recreational spaces to improve physical and emotional health.The literature section of this project focuses on setting up criteria for the questionnaire. The Literature review also helps to identify guidelines for design and design principles. Criteria for the final conceptual design was set using the data from the survey and the case studies. Finally a conceptual design was created to meet the objectives.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Mason, Jay Roger. "An elder care community." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52122.
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The following exploration represents a search for clarity and meaning in the formative work of a young architectural designer. Solving the design problem to create a viable community of elders integrated into the chosen site was merely the ostensible goal. The deeper task was to become more literate with the materials and tools of the architect's trade and develop a confidence with the language and grammar of architecture.
I wanted to develop an understanding of not just a single building type or a particular site condition, but to grow in more fundamental terms toward learning a way of building. This desire may be inherent in every good design, but I wanted to bring the idea of it to the surface and focus on the principles behind the architectural decisions.
I believe the confidence and vitality which the architect combines with the philosophical, technical and pragmatic constraints of a project to make great architecture are products of a thorough understanding of one's personal beliefs. My own attempt to organize thoughts and attitudes into a body of reference toward an understanding of that belief structure follows on the remaining pages. In the process as well as in the final result I have moved closer to a literacy in architecture, if only by gaining insight into the motivations which have guided my hand.Master of Architecture
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Rodriguez, Maria A. "Reducing Caregiver Burden: Fostering Healthy Aging and Social Support." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6753.
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Over 43.5 million Americans provide informal care to a fast-growing elderly population in the United States. Informal care allows care-recipients to remain functional members of society. However, research suggests that the demands of informal care can negatively impact the health of caregivers. For example, caregiver burden increases the risk for poor health in caregivers compared to non-caregivers. Caregiving research is on the rise, but the dynamics of informal care in active retirement communities remains widely unexplored. To provide adequate services to lessen caregiver burden and improve the Quality of Life (QoL) of informal caregivers, the various settings in which informal care is delivered must be evaluated.
Aiming to understand the needs of informal caregivers and the protective factors against caregiver burden in active retirement communities, data from the USF Health and The Villages study, conducted from October 2011 and March 2013, were analyzed. Data from twenty-nine focus groups (N=144) was used to explore the challenges faced by seniors in a caregiver role and the availability of resources that decrease caregiver burden. The primary focus was informal care and the challenges associated with the caregiver role; findings revealed a great need for caregiver relief and limited information on existing resources is available to informal caregivers. Consistent with existing literature on caregiver burden, having no personal time, financial burden, physical demands, and poor health were commonly identified as the biggest caregiving challenges. However, findings strongly suggest that the unique structure of The Villages community encourages high social support that may be the strongest protective factor against caregiver burden in the community.
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Prashad, Neil A. R. (Neil Anthony R. ). "Affordability issues in programming continuing care retirement communitites." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76870.
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Joseph, Anjali. "Where older people walk assessing the relationship between physical environmental factors and walking behavior of older adults /." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04072006-103929/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.Zimring, Craig, Committee Chair ; Kohl, Harold W., Committee Member ; Bafna, Sonit, Committee Member ; Sparling, Phillip, Committee Member ; Day, Kristen, Committee Member.
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Froneman, C. A. "Die rol van aftree-oorde in die behuisingsvoorsiening vir bejaardes in Groter Kaapstad : 'n stedelike geografiese perspektief." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53738.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the 1990s in South Africa an increasing need for care and housing for the aged became evident. On the one hand greater longevity created a rapid increase in the number of aged people of all population groups, and on the other, changes in government policy foreshadowed a drastic scaling down of the role of the state with regard to the supply of housing for the aged. In the midst of these changes, one type of housing for the aged has remained outside the pale of the altering policy scenario: retirement villages. This then is the main focus of the study. Taking into account the fact that retirement villages presently focus mainly on a single elderly group, namely wealthy white persons, and set against the backdrop of the changing situation regarding policy towards housing for the aged, the question arises whether in future retirement villages will be capable of providing housing for a greater percentage of elderly people than at present. The present demand and supply of retirement villages is critically evaluated within the context of housing for the aged in general in order to contribute to a future vision for housing for the aged within the new South Africa. In view of this - and taking into account cultural, financial and age differences - the housing and care needs, as well as the preferences and perceptions of 228 elderly persons, are analysed and compared in this respect with the views of relevant interested parties, namely gerontologists, sociologists, non-governmental organizations and retirement village developers. In focusing on 34 retirement villages in the greater Cape Town area, this study fills the gap that exists within urban geography regarding housing for the aged. An analysis is done of the location of retirement villages in this area, as well as of the factors that influence the selection of locations for such housing schemes. Not only are issues of supply and demand addressed, but also the problems with which the retirement village industry has to deal, such as service delivery, grading (classification status according to specific standards) and the spatial placing of villages. In this wayan attempt is made to find a solution to related problems. The most important conclusion that arose from this research can be summarized as being that elderly people show a lack of knowledge regarding the services offered by these facilities. For this reason retirement villages have been classified under four headings, according to the care services they offer, namely the independent lifestyle village, the supportive care village, the continuous care village and the care for life village. Retirement villages can play an ever-increasing role in providing housing and care for the aged. This will only happen if the various preferences, opinions and perceptions of the different groups of elderly persons are seriously considered and compared to the views of the experts in the field. The basic preferences of the aged can be summarised as: renting residential units instead of buying them; no luxuries such as therapy services; safety considerations incorporated in the design of the interior of the units; being able to use their own furniture in the units; primary health care offered; availability of recreational facilities; good corporate management and accessibility to essential services (in terms of the location of the village). In conclusion, experts of retirement village housing should avoid problems that stem from injudiciously developing complexes that through their inaccessiblity isolate residents from the rest of the community.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In Suid-Afrika is die negentigerjare van die vorige eeu gekenmerk deur 'n toenemende behoefte aan die versorging van en behuising vir bejaardes. Enersyds het langer lewensverwagting 'n snelle toename in die getal bejaardes onder alle bevolkingsgroepe meegebring en andersyds het veranderings in owerheidsbeleid 'n drastiese afskaling in die rol van die staat met betrekking tot behuisingsvoorsiening aan bejaardes in die vooruitsig gestel. Te midde van die verandering ten opsigte van behuisingsvoorsiening vir bejaardes, is daar egter een tipe behuising vir bejaardes wat buite die veranderde beleidstoneel van die staat staan, naamlik aftree-oorde - wat dan die hooffokus van hierdie ondersoek is. In die lig van die veranderende beleidsomgewing rakende die voorsiening van behuising aan bejaardes ontstaan die vraag of aftree-oorde in die toekoms aan 'n groter persentasie bejaardes as tans behuising kan voorsien, gegee die feit dat aftree-oorde tans veralop 'n enkele groep bejaardes, naamlik welgestelde wit bejaardes, fokus. Die huidige vraag na en aanbod van aftree-oorde word in die lig hiervan krities evalueer teen die agtergrond van behuising vir bejaardes in die algemeen ten einde te help bou aan 'n toekomsvisie vir die behuising vir bejaardes in die nuwe Suid-Afrika. Met die oog hierop word die behuisingsen versorgingsbehoeftes, -voorkeure en -persepsies van 228 bejaardes ontleed (gegee hul kulturele, finansiële en ouderdomsverskille) en dan vergelyk met die menings van tersake rolspelers aan die aanbodkant, naamlik gerontoloë, sosioloë, nieregeringsinstansies en die ontwikkelaars van aftree-oorde. Hierdie studie vul die leemte wat binne stedelike geografie bestaan ten opsigte van bejaardes, deur te fokus op 34 aftree-oorde in Kaapstad en sy soomdistrikte met 'n ontleding van die ligging van oorde in hierdie gebied, asook van faktore wat die plasingskeuse van oorde beïnvloed. In die navorsing word nie net die vraag en aanbod van aftree-oorde aangespreek nie, maar ook die probleme waarmee die aftree-oord industrie te doen het, soos dienslewering, gradering (klassifikasie-status volgens bepaalde maatstawwe) en die ruimtelike plasing van oorde om 'n bydrae tot die oplossing van sodanige probleme te kan lewer. Die belangrikste gevolgtrekkings van hierdie studie kan soos volg opgesom word: Daar is 'n gebrek aan kennis by bejaardes ten opsigte van die dienste wat verskillende aftree- oorde aan die bejaarde bied. Vir hierdie rede is aftree-oorde op grond van hulle versorgingsdienste in vier groepe geklassifiseer, naamlik die onafhanklike lewenstyloord, die ondersteuningsdiensoord, die volgehoue versorgingsoord en die lewenslange versorgingsoord. Aftree-oorde kan 'n al groter rol in die voorsiening van behuising aan en versorging van bejaardes speel mits aandag gegee word aan die verskillende voorkeure, menings en persepsies van die verskillende bejaarde groepe en hoe dit met dié van die deskundiges verskil. Die basiese voorkeure van bejaardes kan opgesom word as: die huur van wooneenhede in plaas van om te koop; geen luukshede soos terapiedienste nie; die veiligheidsbewuste ontwerp van die interieur; die gebruik van eie meubels in die wooneenhede; die voorsiening van primêre gesondheidsorg; die beskikbaarheid van rekreasiefasiliteite; die goeie bestuur van die oord en die geskikte ligging van die oord ten opsigte van die belangrikste dienste. Laastens moet deskundiges van aftree-oord behuising waak teen probleme wat sentreer rondom die plasing van 'n oord asook die isolasie van die aftreeoord inwoners van die gemeenskap.
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Boyd, Frederick Andrew. "Elderly housing, orphanage, and community center." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53094.
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Architecture cannot target only a particular age group or type of person worthy of its attention, but rather must respond to the entire human condition. I chose to design a project that would allow me to consider architecturally the span between birth and death, with both segregated and interactive spaces for the various age groups.
The site echoes the human condition in complexity—a steep, wooded slope partially encircling a flat open area, separated by a large, flat stream, further disrupted by a tiny, steeply falling stream. Located on the outskirts of Newport Virginia, the project is a small, self-contained community intended to relate to the existing town in spirit as Le Corbusier’s La Tourette relates to the nearby town of Eveaux—felt and glimpsed but not seen.
The building is organized around a series of major concrete walls, paired for circulation and containing volumes between the pairs, spaced in multiples of two and three. These walls are oriented to the geologic strike of the rock beds, perhaps the most permanent of all site qualities. Bridges link portions of the project on both sides of the stream, and the center is carved out to form an open plaza; a microcosm of the valley and surrounding ridges which make up the landscape.Master of Architecture
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Dunning, Raymond. "Gay retirement communities : designing for dignity." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/15849.
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Simpson, Mary. "Organisational transformations in the New Zealand retirement village sector a critical-rhetorical and-discursive analysis of promotion, community, and resident participation /." 2007. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070719.171239/index.html.
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Brodnitzki, Thomas X. "The growth of active adult age-restricted retirement communities in Connecticut /." 2007. http://www.consuls.org/record=b2839073.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2007.Thesis advisor: David Truly. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geography" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-102). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Snyder, Bonnie K. "Back to school university-linked retirement communities and institutional integration /." 2002. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-220/index.html.
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Craig, Margaret Anne. "Dispute resolution and the Retirement Villages Act 2003 a fair and independent process? /." 2007. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070718.132806/index.html.
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Secomb, Dorothy Margaret. "Retirement in mobile and manufactured housing on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia /." 2000. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20001222.110823/index.html.
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Tsai, Wen-Chi, and 蔡文綺. "The Research of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24664354429228778276.
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ABSTRACT The theme of the research is to explore University-Linked Retirement Communities (ULRCs) in the United States. The documentary analysis method is mainly adopted. The documents had been collected from 1982 to May of 2006 included the relative documents, books, reports, editorials, and websites in University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States. By reading and arranging them, the researcher tried to discuss the origin, the development, model, role, relationship, and learning activities of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States. After the discussion of the above, the researcher generalized the features from it and provided some recommendations for the elders’ education in Taiwan. The research about University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States can generalize into fourteen features as below: 1.Linking model conformity university and retirement communities ; 2.To pour vigor into retirement communities; 3.Enhancing the image and prestige of retirement communities; 4.To promote retirement communities multiplication development; 5.Linking model combine age-segregation with age-integration; 6.Develops the new resources for the university; 7.Providing the university to create the new way of university duty and mission; 8.Linking model strengthening the relation of school and communities, and it can remove the misunderstanding between the school and society; 9.To increase study opportunity for older people; 10.To create a multi-generation environment for the older people; 11.To promote the elders mental health, and satisfies the elders influence and the contribution demand; 12.Make the elders keep the contact with their old school, and strengthening older people link with local school; 13.Satisfying the demand of elder aging in the place; 14.To provide the elders the new development approach after retirement. Besides, the researcher analyzed the implement of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States, then pointed out the dilemma and blind spots of it, and finally provided the elders’ educational institutes with four aspects recommendations as following: 1.The government lacks the norms of support and legislation of ULRCs; 2.Some universities lack for linking common view to what has been handled the university and retirement communities insufficiently; 3.It is difficult to finance for building up retirement communities; 4.The ULRCs is restricted by the entrance condition to cause its service object is limited; 5.The university and retirement communities' leader lack for common view; 6.The government lacks for setting the mechanism of rewards and comments. At last, the research of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States provides our country four aspects recommendations as below: I.ULRCs to government's enlightenment 1.The government should make great efforts to develop the new retirement idea of caring link learning; 2.Encouraging the university to held the elders educational activities on the policy; 3.Encouraging older living house and retirement community to held learning activities by themselves, and increasing the elder learning opportunities. II.ULRCs to university/college's enlightenment 1.The higher educational institution opens for the elder; 2.The combination of universities/colleges and retirement communities open the new development opportunity for the university; 3.The universities/colleges should establish senior learning center; 4.The universities/colleges should be devoted to strengthening the relationship among the alumni is beneficial to opening up resources; 5.The universities/colleges should strengthen the common view in school to face the coming of aging population society and adopt in accordance to strategy; 6.To enhance the elders correlation domain research and cultivate professional personnel. III.ULRCs to Retirement Communities’ enlightenment 1.To adjust the management of the retirement communities, and combine care with learn. 2.The retirement communities should offer a variety of service to meets more demands of the elder. 3.The development of retirement communities should seek to establish the linking relationship with the university. 4.The retirement communities should combine the resources of social welfare, medical treatment and education system. 5.The retirement communities set up the unit and professional personnel to manage elder learning activities. IV.ULRCs to the elders’ enlightenment 1.To choose the retirement communities which have linked relationship with the universities/colleges to be a raising place. 2.The elders participate in learning activities contribute to promote physical and mental healthy. 3.The elders establish self-service social group to develop the learning activity voluntarily and provides the learning opportunities. 4.The elders should participate in generation activities to look for the life meaning.
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Sachar, Tina M. "Quality of life in retirement communities : an investigation of psychosocial development, coping, and caregiving factors /." Diss., 2004. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3147331.
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chang, Kung-Ming, and 張拱銘. "A Study on the Key Factors of Resident in Green Health Care Retirement Communities." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73311017057262039628.
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In recent years, the aging population of Taiwan become more gradually. Many enterprises have entered into the senior market, providing them the continuing care services and the diversified services to help them achieve the goal, which can keep the elder healthy. CCRCs just provide health care services when elder’s health had a big change, but there has no any positive way to prevent it. The main reason is that CCRCs ignored the importance of the living environment and dietary behaviors for the Elderly. To improve the situation that CCRCs are not unable to prevent currently, greening CCRCs strengthen the quality of life and achieve the goal of good health. In this study, we embedded the Green Building, Green Restaurant, Green Hospital, Green store into CCRCs to develop the place that is friendly for human health and environment by using questionnaires and quadrant picture. We first discussed the relationship between importance and degree of willingness. After that, the discussion between clusters and consumer’s characteristics is included by cluster analysis. The results of this study indicated that food safety of green restaurants and indoor environment of green building are the most important factors that the consumers concern about. In addition, the “the interacted analyses between the factors and dewelling witness “showthe green factor separate into two block, the green factor can direct impact on physical and psychological health of elder that we called priority section. If effects is indirect, we called proposed section. And this is the key that whether the CCRCs become a greening CCRCs. Moreover, the results also show that the consumers don’t pay attention to Electronic Patient Record, but it is the key indicator for elder’s heath in CCRCs. The conclusion is that the consumers are aware of the issues about the green, but still have to be strengthened. The enterprises are suggested to embed the green factors into the CCRCs to improve the quality of life and achieve the goal of good health.
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Hall-Jones, Linsey. "Can retirement villages be used to stimulate the economic development of small towns?" Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2424.
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This dissertation looks at the possibility of using a development, like a retirement village, to stimulate the economic development of small towns. Following on from this, the question of whether or not a retirement village could be used as a model for Local Economic Development (LED) of small towns is also explored. The case study chosen, is that of the small town ofHowick (situated in the Midlands ofKwaZulu-Natal) and Amberfield Retirement Village which is located there. The study examines the economic impact that Amberfield Retirement Village has had on the small town ofHowick, as well as le>oking at the extent to which its success is locationally specific (and what implications this wou}d have in terms of replicating the retirement village). The findings of the study reveal that Amberfield Retirement Village has had a significant impact on Howick, especially in terms ofthe linkages it creates and the large injection of capital that it brought to the small town. The unique locational aspects and specificity of both Howick and Amberfield Retirement Village also form part of the findings of the study, and which affect the conclusion drawn in terms ofthe replicability ofthe retirement village. It is concluded that the retirement village could be used as a model for LED of other small towns, however, the location and the setting of the retirement village are all important.Thesis (M.T.R.P.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1997.